cookies, lobster, and a horned melon

My children really like the grocery store...especially our new Publix. We have a few activities that mark each trip - they always ride the "rocket" carts, they ask for a free cookie to enjoy, we check out the lobster tank and count how many/which one is bigger/etc., we pick things out to weigh and guess which will weigh more, and we always have to pick up the horned melons. They are strange little pieces of fruit. I actually had never seen one before this store opened. C and S ask to hold one every visit to the store. We talk about what it feels like. We talk about what it would taste like. Finally, yesterday, we asked the produce man about the horned melons. We learned that they have a thick membrane. To eat it, you have to slice it like a cucumber and peel it...it even has edible seeds like a cucumber. We still didn't buy this tropical little fruit...the mystery of it is still too fun. But, oneday, we might just buy one to eat at home. Until then, we are going to keep weighing our bananas and tomatoes and feeling the spikes of the lovely, horned melon....