The sequestration of the jury in the George Zimmerman Trial cost Florida taxpayers about $33,000 for perks that included steak dinners and manicures for the six women serving on the jury in Florida for three weeks.

The sequestration of the jury included comforts such as dinner at Outback Steakhouse, a trip to the bowling alley, and to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum, USA Today reports.

The six all-female jury memebers were sequestered from Friday, June 21, and spent 22 nights at the Marriott in Lake Mary, Fla.

The Seminole County sheriff's office said in a statement: "Jurors watched television and movies, exercised at the hotel fitness center, and spent weekends being visited by family and friends."

Anyone who visited members of the jury had to sign an agreement promising that they would not discuss the case with the jury member, USA Today reports.

"Jurors had individual rooms and convened regularly in a suite for meals and to socialize," the statement added.

Most breakfasts and dinners were provided by the hotel, and most lunches took place at the courthouse. According to USA Today, the group went out for lunch twice, both times to Senior Tequila's in Winter Springs.

"Jurors also enjoyed several evening and weekend excursions to include bowling, shopping at the Volusia Mall, a day and dinner in St. Augustine (to include a visit to the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum), manicures and pedicures, and watching fireworks on the fourth of July," the sheriff's office reported. "Jurors also went to the movies to see "World War Z" and "The Lone Ranger." All movies viewed were preapproved by the court."

Randy Reep, a Florida attorney, did not see the $33,000 costs for the six women as extravagant. "It certainly seems reasonable to me that a woman would desire a bit of personal grooming over 22 days," he said.

Robert Hirschhorn, a jury consultant who helped pick the all-female jury, said $33,000 in sequestration fees was a low number. The cost was a "small price to pay for the enormity of the task the jurors undertook," Hirschhorn said.

"They left their husbands, their children, their friends, their jobs, they were essentially 'imprisoned' for three weeks," he explained. "They could not watch what they wanted on TV, listen to the radio, read what they want in the newspaper or surf the Web."

The jury eventually acquitted George Zimmerman in the televised and heavily-covered trial regarding the shooting and killing of teenager Trayvon Martin.