Sarasota, Florida is a beautiful place with laid back attitude, lots of stuff to do and of course, Siesta Key, one of my favorite beaches. Today we came to visit Mote Aquarium and GWIZ. Smiling, informative, helpful volunteers were abundant at both places. At Mote panning for shark teeth was a fun activity, the preserved giant squid was creepy pale and a Manatee skeleton showed the five finger like digits hidden under their fins. At GWIZ the kids explored controlling moving, multilevel contraptions, launched paper airplanes from a cannon and worked at mind boggling science puzzles.