Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise Florida- A Kid's Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On!
Our homeschool support group planned a group field trip for the kids to Wannado City® last week. It worked out great for us because we hired a new buyers' agent who works in Weston Florida and that is right close to Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise. Sawgrass is absolutely my favorite shopping mall in the world besides all the shops at Disneyworld. ( we are Disney Fans), but more about shopping at Sawgrass in another post. I am not a big shopper. I like to buy online and I don't buy anything I don't really need or that does not serve a purpose, and absolutely no dust collectors.
So our plan was to spend a day with Julie Locke our new buyers agent in Weston. We asked her to take us on a tour so we could take tons of photos and blog about the are so we could get her the buyers leads that we will get from blogging. We spent the night in a hotel right next to Sawgrass and in the next morning met our homeschool group outside of Wannado City which is located right at the Sawgrass Mills shopping mall close to Rainforest Cafe.
Our son was standing in line and started meeting and talking to a couple other homeschooled boys around his age. He is 7 years old and is very good about making friends with other kids. He and another boy connected well and ended up being buddies the whole day. Of course that meant that I made a new friend also in this boy's mom since we were going around together following the boys on their trips around Wannado City®.
Wannado City® is the largest indoor theme park in the United States. It is so much fun. I was saying to Nestor; I wish they had a place like this when I was a kid. I would never want to leave! You can not do everything in one day so you need to pick your favorite things to do first and then go back through the city to do the second favorite things to do.
Wannado City® is a place where the kids get to explore many different occupations in near to real life situations. The parents are allowed to watch from outside but for most activities the parents are not allowed to go into the specific career buildings except for a few of them.
The first thing on the boys' list was to become Police Officers. So they go into this miniature, child's level, police station that looks very real, a dozen children at a time. Each event takes about 20 minutes. In the police station the adult cops divide the kids into cops and robbers. My son and his buddy were robbers. So they get to go rob the Wannado City® bank, ( just run in and steal the Wannado dollars out of the Wannado City® bank) then they try to hide as the cops come to find them and put them in jail It was so funny and the employees acting out with the kids seemed like they were really enjoying themselves.
The next really fun thing the boys did was CNN. Our son was the Weatherman! He had SO much fun with this activity. It was a real life sound stage with the green screens with the tele-prompters and all! Nestor ordered a DVD of his performance. This one is going to stick with him for a while. He still talks about it a week later!
Among the other events the boys did were:
- the Firefighters,
- Airline Pilots,
- Newspaper Reporters and writers,
- Candy makers, Bakers,
- Pizza makers,
- Bank tellers,
- Cookie bakers,
- Private Eye Detectives,
- and then our son's favorite was mining for gems.
At each one of these learning stations they get paid in Wannado Dollars which are redeemed at the end of the day for junk toys or they can use them to do things like ride the bus around Wannado City ® or climb the rock wall. Well, in the mining trip, they got these fake gold nuggets that they then go take to the jewelry store to sell. It was such a blast!
What a great and fun way for kids to learn about the different careers in a very hands on way. We are going to go back to Wannado City® again!
The one thing that is kind of irritating is that for the parents: once you go in you can not leave. If you leave, you can not get back inside. Nestor was in Wannado CIty ® with us until after Lunch. That is when he told me, this is why mothers have more patience. He went shopping while we stayed and finished up our tour and activities at Wannado City.
12801 West Sunrise Boulevard
Anchor D Sunrise, FL 33323 Main Phone Number
Their website is: www.wannadocity.com
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Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill In Sunrise Florida - A Kids' Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On! Copyright © 2009 by Katerina Gasset* all rights reserved*
