Hubby and I once called Jacksonville home. While we completed our undergraduate degrees, we lived and loathed Jacksonville.
But a lot has changed in the 9 years (!) since we graduated and we’ve been back several times to visit friends and attend events at our alma mater. And while we’ve always taken the kids, we’ve not done much with them. We usually spend our time eating at our favorite restaurants (European Street, Seven Bridges, Ragtime, La Napolera), hanging out with friends and often times shopping at the nearby St. Augustine Outlets.
But that doesn’t mean Jacksonville lacks things for kids to do. In fact, the last time we were up there, we had big plans to do tons of fun stuff with the kiddos (of course, hubby ended up terribly sick and I ended up as an out of town single parent).
But we did get to go to The MOSH (museum of science and history) and the girls had so much fun! The museum houses permanent exhibits like a history of Jacksonville and Northeast Florida; a journey through the digestive track; a whale, dolphin and manattee exhibit and more as well as a rotating exhibit.
<Insert lost pictures here! The hunt is on and they will hopefully appear later…>
And, of course, depending on the time of year you can always head to the beach. Being in Northern Florida, the beach is not swimmable year-round like it is in the South where we are but it is always fun to visit and walk in the sand!
So that’s the extent of our travels with kids in Jacksonville (kinda lame, I know!) But I have high hopes for future visits. I’d love to take the kids to the Zoo, the Hands on Children’s Museum, Fort Caroline, not to mention all the wonderful things to see near Jacksonville in both St. Augustine and to the North!
