Blog #11 Downtown Ft. Myers

Downtown Ft. Myers, the home of my teacher, and a place I have been many times, especially when I was a little kid. Our class took a field trip to the downtown area, and I witnessed many familiar sights and even some new ones, or at least things I don't remember seeing. We drove by the Edison home, which is a beautiful sight at night during winter when they have it lit up with Christmas lights and decorations. Of course the Edison home being the house the famous inventor Thomas Edison lived in many years ago. The famous Henry Ford also lived right next to him, too. Our first stop on our tour was the Fort Myers Florida Historical Museum.

The museum looked kind of looks like it was made in Texas, and then shipped over here. The first thing we saw when we started the tour was a twelve foot Giant Ground Sloth. This thing was huuuuuge like the Kia dealer in Cape Coral! The Mammoth skull right next to the sloth was also humongous. Probably the most interesting display they had to me was the different types of tools and weapons that the Seminole and Calusa tribes used. There were also different kinds of war weapons, flags, and other neat old stuff in there, too. Before we left we went outside and peaked inside an old cracker house. They called them cracker houses because the sounds of the whips the farmers used on their cattle.
After we left the museum, we walked around downtown Ft. Myers for a little bit. Our teacher told us about the development there, and one of the most interesting parts was when he told us about how there was a line around the block to see Jaws at the movie theater there. We stopped at the Indigo hotel, and we went to the seventh floor to check out the view of the area. It was really nice, and they even had a pool up there, which was pretty sweet.

It was a really phenomenal trip, especially seeing these sights through my eyes fifteen years after the last time I saw some of this stuff. I remember when my family and I would go downtown for block parties and watch fireworks over the water on July fourth. The only bad part about the trip is when our bus broke down. I wouldn't have minded because the weather was really nice and we were having a good time, but I really had to be somewhere. It's all good though, because I wasn't late, but my girlfriend was down and I didn't get to spend as much time with her. Sorry that is way off subject, it was an awesome trip, and the downtown area of Ft. Myers has a lot of history.