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1 LIGHTER THAN AIR Soar high above central Florida in a hot-air balloon during the annual Quad Cities Balloon Festival in Davenport 2 MARINE LIFE See pods of playful dolphins, try your hand at feeding sea lions, and go behind the scenes with penguins and more at SeaWorld Orlando. 3 AND DON’T FORGET... ☑ Insider’s tours of working thoroughbred horse farms with Farm Tours of Ocala ☑ Solomon’s Castle in Ona, built out of recycled materials by an eccentric artist ☑ More than 150 life-size models at Dinosaur World in Plant City ☑ Furniture and other exhibits at the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg ☑ Nearly 50 murals depicting prominent citizens, cattle drives, and winemaking in Lake Placid ☑ Myriad works by Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park ☑ Abundant Florida wildlife at Homosassa Springs State Park ☑ The Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum, set in an 1899 church in New Smyrna Beach ☑ Gazpacho and other Spanish delicacies at the Dali Museum’s Café Gala, St. Petersburg ☑ The large collection of bonsai trees at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce ☑ Panoramic views in air-conditioned comfort on ICON Orlando, a 400-foot-tall observation wheel 4 FUN CAN BE A DRAG Award-winning craft brews and drag shows are menu features at the LGBTQ-friendly Abbey Bar in DeLand 5 I CAN FLY! Tackle ropes courses and zoom along ziplines at the TreeHoppers Aerial Adventure Park in Dade City. 6 SPACE DUDE At Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, tour the rocket garden, be wowed by the Shuttle Launch Experience, and meet an astronaut.
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