9 April 2019
We are here in Wauchula Florida for about eight days. Today we drove to Bradenton Beach and we took a tour at the Mixon Orange Grove Farm. Very low-key, gift shop, lots of free juice samples. Wine samples, and of course orange ice cream.. we took a tram around the property that they bought from Dollywood a couple years ago. It looked like it was built in the 60s. kind of cool. Mixon has reinvented itself as many of its orange groves had died from a disease about 15 years ago. They sold some of their land to developers while still growing citrus and bambo.
They also have an animal rehab facility on their property and that was a part of the tour as well. There we were able to see an American alligator and African crocodiles, pythons, huge turtles, a horned owl and some other birds. We where able to hold the alligator which was pretty cool. 
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We drove by a single a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball stadium called marauders and we decided we’re going to go attend a game tomorrow it’s been a while since we’ve been to a minor league game.
10 April
So we went to Bradenton Florida to watch the marauders play. First pitch was at 10:30 we got box seats for $10 a seat and got to watch a 10 inning game. Weather was perfect and we had a great time.
