We finally decided to roll all of our coins that we have been saving for who knows how long. I think we ended up with around $250.00. We would of had more but we spend the quarters on a regular basis every Friday the kids get to buy Popsicles if they were good in class all week and the kids pressed penny collections. It was more than I thought we would have. We spent a while figuring out what family activity we would do with the money. We decided to buy year passes to the zoo. It has been probably 3 years since we have been to the zoo. We would just get our zoo fix from going to Disney's Animal Kingdom. But we aren't sure when we will be back to Disney World so thought this would be fun to do throughout the year. Below is the only picture I took while at the zoo. But I'm sure there will be more since we have all year to take pictures.
We also are going to buy year passes to Callaway Gardens. It is a place about 2 hours away that has a great beach, mini golf, bird show, butterfly exhibit, circus in the summer, and many other fun things. We try and go there every summer right before the kids go back to school. We thought this pass would be great for us since it pays for itself in less than 2 visits. We are also thinking of purchasing one more year pass to the museum of natural history with the remaining coin money.
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Sounds like the coins were put to good use! How fun to have a nice zoo close by.
It's funny that you save coins just like we do and that you use the quarters on Fridays just like we do! The elementary has quarter day where the kids can buy snacks. We haven't counted up our money yet because we broke the glass jar it was kept in. Now it's in a ziploc and gets dumped and moved too much. I'd love to save enough to get hockey season tickets, but that would be a couple thousand dollars. Eek. No zoo worth spending our money on around here. Maybe we just need to save our coins for a trip to Atlanta!
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