Some friends of ours from school and church and band have parents / grand-parents that live down here. So, the girls wanted to get together. So while the girls played, Bob and Debbie went to lunch and the Ringling Museums.
The Ringling Museums consist of a beautiful miniature of a Circus, some real-life pieces from the circus, a activity center, the home of one of the Ringling’s and a Museum of Art. The circus stuff was wonderful. Any train modeling fan would love to see this. It includes the entire layout of a circus including the Big Top, the side shows, and the support tents. It also showed the rail yard, where all the wagons, animals and people were transported by rail. The real circus stuff include wagons that carried some of the animals, the cannon truck that shot people into the air, and show that the circus travelled with its own shop for repairs to any equipment, as well a kitchen for the 1500 people and a kitchen for the animals.
The house was interesting -- very 1920s ornate. The art museum had two temporary exhibits that were good. One was modern American art. Two that stuck out to Bob was a Normal Rockwell painting and a Grandma Moses painting. The other was photographs of World War II. It's was surreal how those pictures looked like Bob's dad and Uncle Jack and Uncle Tom. The rest of the art - the paintings - reminded Bob of the art work in St. Mary's Marietta. There was a beautiful painting of the Blessed Virgin that displayed all the flowers of Mary. Debbie just had someone come into Sarah's Girl Scout troop to talk about that.
The Ringling Museums consist of a beautiful miniature of a Circus, some real-life pieces from the circus, a activity center, the home of one of the Ringling’s and a Museum of Art. The circus stuff was wonderful. Any train modeling fan would love to see this. It includes the entire layout of a circus including the Big Top, the side shows, and the support tents. It also showed the rail yard, where all the wagons, animals and people were transported by rail. The real circus stuff include wagons that carried some of the animals, the cannon truck that shot people into the air, and show that the circus travelled with its own shop for repairs to any equipment, as well a kitchen for the 1500 people and a kitchen for the animals.
The house was interesting -- very 1920s ornate. The art museum had two temporary exhibits that were good. One was modern American art. Two that stuck out to Bob was a Normal Rockwell painting and a Grandma Moses painting. The other was photographs of World War II. It's was surreal how those pictures looked like Bob's dad and Uncle Jack and Uncle Tom. The rest of the art - the paintings - reminded Bob of the art work in St. Mary's Marietta. There was a beautiful painting of the Blessed Virgin that displayed all the flowers of Mary. Debbie just had someone come into Sarah's Girl Scout troop to talk about that.
Sarah, Maria and their friends meanwhile, did a little shopping, shell collecting, but could do much swimming.... why.. cause it was raining... surprise, surprise. 
After dinner, we went out to the beach to see if we could catch one last sunset on the so-called Sun Coast. No luck ... It was pretty, but nothing fantastic. But we bid farewell to the Gulf Coast!
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