Get a Sharpie pen and write the date and location on the bottom of Jackson's rocks. When he's older you can read the detail and tell him about where you all were when he found it.
Or one of those craft boxes with the individual spaces (like this www.spotlightstores.com/craft-hobbies/art-craft-storage/craft-storage/craft-organisers/crafters-choice-large-storage-box/80440043) so you know where each one is from - take a photo incase they get mixed up too
The science of why a rock feels cool to the touch, despite it being the same temperature of everything else around it, is that the rock absorbs energy. When something feels warm or cool in the hand, you aren't (technically) feeling the temperature of the thing, you're feeling the transfer of energy (heat) between that object and yourself. So the stone absorbs the energy in your body away from you, and it feels like it cools you off.
Regarding rock jar: I keep a mason jar in my laundry room specifically for “pocket rocks”. Rocks found in my kids’ pockets. With Jackson’s love of leaves it would be cute to press some of his leaves in a book to later scrapbook with or otherwise make some sort of art piece with.
Love your channel! Thanks for being one of the classy acts who respect all people and refrain from swearing during your vlogs. It's not just that our whole family can watch... it's professional and intelligent of you. Love you three. ❤
Since Jackson loves rocks and has been collecting them it might be cool to paint some with him and leave a Tracker rock when you guys visit places :) PS: I love the old videos of Tim exploring local parks! Would definitely love to see those again!
Loved the gardens, I agree Jenn, it reminded me of old Tim Tracker videos. I used to take my son to stuff like that and he, too, picked up rocks and brought them home. He is now an underwater archeologist, with a minor in geology. I guess it stuck with him.
This is just what I needed! A stroll through a tropical garden, your videos have helped so much missing my loving husband, Jackson never fails to bring me laughter and smiles, so thank you!
Tim and Jen, regarding the rocks Jackson finds on your adventures, maybe you could try to write location on it with date so he will see where he found the rocks. Just a thought 👍❤️ He is so adorable and you both are wonderful parents.
You can name the jar of rocks, Jackson’s adventure rocks! Also being firefighter, Jackson in his little fire helmet melted my heart. I love seeing kids excited about firefighters. I have some stickers from my department and would love to send him a few.
My uncle still does his sugar cane the old school way in El Salvador 💙 it’s amazing to see the process! When they do it they have all the family, friends and neighbors to come out to help because it’s such a long hard process.
Little Free Libraries are such a fun way to donate books and find new ones. So cute that they had one there. You can go on the official website for the map to locate the closest LFL near you.
I’m a Florida Native (54) and when I was Very young we would go to Six Guns Territory; a gun slinging -western experience that my Dad loved. I guess he felt like he was in an episode of Bonanza. LOL When I was about 8, we went a few times to Marco Polo Park, it was a very fun amusement park with log rides, bumper cars and other fun rides. A small airplane crashed into it and after they repaired it they changed the name to Passport to Fun World. I remember it wasn’t as far as Disney. Im in St. Augustine and Disney is about 2 1/2 hours away so it was about halfway. Neat old Florida history.
I am loving all of these little getaways and learning about all of the awesome places around Florida. Much appreciated. Oh my goodness my son LOVED collecting rocks. We literally had bags of rocks in the house haha. He'll still even at 17 years old pick up a rock that he thinks is a keeper. I think putting them in a jar is an adorable idea. Probably would be better than keeping them in bags like we did haha... Huge hugs and love to you guys xoxo
Hi Tim, Jen and Jackson. Just an idea but if you do start a jar for Jackson's rocks, write in pen where they came from and the date. That way he will have fun looking back at them. We have a collection of rocks and pebbles that have been brought back from different places and we write on them what country they are from. Thankyou for all the great videos you put out. We love watching your channel.
Loved this episode. I’m making notes if the various places of interest that you’ve taken us to. My son and his family will be relocating to WDW from DLR ( he works for the Mouse ) and my granddaughters love exploring new areas. Regarding the rocks - take a fine tip marker and on one side of the rock note the date & location of where Jackson found his souvenir rocks.
My niece used to collect rocks when she was younger. My sister decided to organize them and label where they were collected. She is now grown but has rocks from so many national parks and adventures they went on. She still adds to them and now has rocks from some other countries.
I hope you guys had a great time in New Smyrna beach! That's my hometown so seeing my favorite RU-vidrs visit makes these videos 10 times better! Keep up the amazing content Tim and Jenn
I collect cool rocks from every trip that we take camping or whenever we take our little trips somewhere. I write the dates and location of where we were at. I love doing this and then in a few years I can show the my one day grandkids where we’ve been. 🥰
What a great place to visit. A nice quiet fun day. Back in the late 70’s on a family vacation we visited Cypress gardens. I remember watching the water ski show which nowadays is becoming extinct also. Hard to find them. They don’t have them in Wisconsin dells any more if I am not mistaken either. I also remember seeing all the colorful birds..
What a cool, beautiful, and interesting place Bongoland is! Yes, I remember the rest rooms at the beach when I was a kid being fairly cool compared to outside, they were all kept fairly dark, and made out of concrete block. Cool fact about camels being able to eat cactus, Tim. Never hard that, but will definitely remember it! Very cool idea about the painted rocks and the FB page. Oh my gosh - that gnome area is SO cute!! Lunch looked REALLY good. SO cool the FD gave Jackson that hat and frisbee - community relations, at their finest! When I was a id, we used to visit the local FD once a year, during Fire Safety Week, and i always loved it. :) Glad the power came back on the spa looked VERY Zen and relaxing. Socially distanced hugs to the 3 of you from New Jersey! Stay strong, stay positive, stay healthy!!
We live in Fruit Cove Fl and we have stayed in Port Orange many times and went and visited this park!! Neat place. You guys need to try Aunt Catfish in Port Orange!!!
Thank you! I’ve been hoping for a while that you would go to Dunlawton Sugar Mill Garden! It’s been on my to do list for the last few years and haven’t had a chance to go yet. I love dinosaurs!! Edit: The 5th dinosaur is a Parasaurolophus and it is a type of hadrosaur.
You guys were in my neighborhood where I grew up!! (Port Orange) we just call it the sugar mill gardens :) its a nice little gem for the area! Glad you guys enjoyed it ❤
Hi, what a hidden gem, very pretty park, I would totally love that too. I love anything that has to do with Dinos too. Jackson reminds so much of when I was little,My Mom says. I always loved the water and loved picking up rocks. Actually to tell the truth I have a bit of a rock collection that been collected since I was young. If I saw a rock I liked from wherever we were at ,at the time, I kept it. However, rock collecting stoped after High School. 🤔 Anyway, this was very enjoyable thanks. Be Safe Take Care 💜💙💚
You should for sure do the rock jar! Then write on the jar or rock with marker every place (City, Disney...) that he has gotten one from. That way he can see all the places he has been. ☺️
Yes! I have a free little library in my yard. People can take books and bring books back. If you take a book you dont even have to bring it back to that location.
We have painted rocks in Germany as well. It is exactly as Tim said, post the location where you found the rock on the Facebook group. I Loved that idea and painted some rocks myself. It is so fun, when someone else finds your rock.
I am watching from Ottawa Canada and it makes me so excited to see a place other than Disney that I have been to. The Sugar Mill...so fun. We went for breakfast near this area that you made pancakes right at your table and added choices of toppings. We also went and saw Manatees on this day trip.
Our kids love to bring home rocks and I have solved the kids love rocks issue!! We bought a glass lantern (target) candle holder and keep it in my sons bathroom. When he brings home a rock\shell we add it to the collection of of rocks and shells. It is decorative and only we know all of the places those items came from! If you have a sea theme bathroom it fits right in!
We have multiple Little Free Libraries in our town, including two within a block of our house, and they are very popular. You can find directions to build one and a map of all the locations online. Whenever I can't find a book I want to read at the public library system, I buy the book, and after I read it, I put it in our neighbor's Little Free Library. The books I put in get borrowed almost immediately because they are basically brand new!
It always interests me how stone buildings that mean no need for air conditioning are so unusual for most Americans when nearly everything is built like that in Europe.
My boy had a rock collection. We had a box right by the door and he would put his rocks in there before coming in the house. We would also paint the nice rocks with nail polish and put them in our garden
