Lake Placid is just a short distance from where we were staying at my brothers in Sebring.  They took us to see the murals in this town.  At first I wasn’t really interested in seeing murals.  But after seeing the first one, I was hooked.  These were not just good murals, they were great.  The first one covered the side of a huge building.  It was so awesome and life-like.  There was a total of 47 murals in town along with painted trash receptacles and small paintings of wildlife all around town.

Each one of the murals had things hidden in them.  The city sold guides to the murals with information about the artists and what to look for in the murals.  These are so awesome and I will show you some of them here.  But I would recommend that you check them out if you are ever in Florida.

We also went to the local museum in their train depot.  Saw so many things that remind me of my childhood.   Iron irons that we heated on the stove, old school desks, and so much more.  Here are just a few of things we saw.

Lake Placid also has a clown school and museum where many famous clowns were trained or taught.  They showed a movie about the school which was very interesting.  There were pictures on the wall of many different clowns and even some that were painted by the clowns themselves.  Red Skelton painted a lot of them and they were really good.  They had shelves and shelves of clown memorabilia.  Some of them were very valuable and some even had gold on them.

The next blog will be from Highland Hammock State Park in Florida.  Alligators on the way!!