Colasanti's Tropical Gardens

A jungle inside a building. Portal to somewhere warm.

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Real World

Located in Kingsville, Ontario. A massive greenhouse complex full of exotic and tropical plants, plus a petting zoo, mini-golf, arcade, and rides.

What's There

• Greenhouse full of tropical plants - warm and humid year-round
• Exotic birds, animals
• Petting zoo
• Mini-golf, arcade, rides
• Gift shop, restaurant

The Experience

Walk through the doors in the middle of a Canadian winter and suddenly you're in the tropics. The air is warm, humid, thick with the smell of growing things. Parrots call. Leaves drip.

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Magical Overlay

Established (Epic 2: Scattered Snowman):

• WHERE FROSTY GOT TOO CLOSE
• The warm zone that started his melting
• His scarf got caught on a tropical plant
• Thermodynamics lesson: Warm air holds more energy, molecules move fast

Potential:

• Portal to a tropical realm?
• The plants know things - they've been growing here for years
• What lives in the greenhouse that nobody talks about?

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Thermodynamics Teaching

This is the WARM ZONE in the Scattered Snowman epic.

The Lesson: Heat is movement

• Feel how warm it is in here?
• The air molecules are moving FAST
• That's why Frosty started melting - his molecules got excited and ran away from each other
• The socks protect YOUR warmth - they keep your heat IN so the jungle heat stays OUT

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A jungle in January. The warmest place in Kingsville.

North

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  - Kingsville attraction
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East

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- context:
  - Warm zone in Frosty scavenger hunt
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- context:
  - 'Scavenger hunt stop 2: Colasanti''s → Lakeside Park'
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West

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- context:
  - 'Scavenger hunt stop 1: The Hole → Colasanti''s'
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