Lots of activities for little ones are on the calendar at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. Then there’s the Butterfly House in Faust Park, 15193 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield, EarthWays Center at 3617 Grandel Square – St. Louis, and the Shaw Nature Reserve at Hwy. 100 & I-44 in Gray Summit. Family classes and activities are offered at the Shaw Nature Reserve. The mbgnet is a wonderful, interactive learning and information tool that is a lot of fun to use. Virtual tours are also available!
Missouri Botanical Garden
May 21, 2009
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Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Chocolate Factories
May 19, 2009Chocolate, dark chocolate can help you stay healthy and can even help you lose weight! Great news for us chocolate lovers! Ghirardelli has 100% chocolate drops that I love to nibble at 3 in the afternoon. Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco is one of my favorite haunts – and across the bay is the San Leandro Factory Outlet.
Then there is Hershey, PA; Chicago and Times Square for Hersey’s Chocolate! Here are videos of the Hershey Factory tour. I am told it is a tasty time! Enjoy!
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Crayola Factory, Easton, PA
May 18, 2009Kathy at work suggested the Crayola Factory as a very fun place to take kids. The review linked here is full of info about it. Here are some youtube videos of people having fun. The official Crayola Site is full of coloring pages, crafts and lots of ideas.
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Davis Monthan – Pima Air Museum
May 18, 2009We had a great time meandering around the planes at the Pima Air & Space Museum at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ. The SW Aviator has this article (Preserving the Best of the Boneyard
story by Mark Swint, photos by Mark Swint and Mike Scott) about the planes.
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Snoqualmie Falls and Salish Lodge
May 17, 2009A friend wanted suggestions for a romantic getaway to celebrate a 1 year milestone and I thought but a minute before coming up with Snoqualmie Falls and Salish Lodge, located about 30 miles from Seattle, Washington. Grandpa Ron and I enjoyed a weekend there many years ago and we still talk about it! It is where we adopted Bear, our first of now very many bears. He was sitting in the middle of the pillows on our bed when we arrived. We paid his adoption fee in the Gift Shop and he has gone on almost every trip we’ve taken anywhere ever since!
Salish Lodge has many scheduled activities that you can participate in. Even if the lodge is too high end for yur budget, Snoqualmie has other hotels and there are other nearby cities to stay. There is hiking, biking, horseback riding, kayaking, whitewater rapids, fishing and golfing galore – and a Railroad Museum!! We loved the train ride and the informative interpretive tour.
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Mohawk Valley Artists’ Guild Spring Faire
May 15, 2009Carole Hale (Grandpa Ron’s sister) will be the Featured Artist at the “Bursting Into Spring” Arts and Craft Faire. The annual faire is sponsored by the Mohawk Valley Artists’ Guild at the Graeagle Firehall, 7620 Highway 89, Graeagle, CA, as a fundraiser for their arts in the schools. This year it will be held May 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Refreshments of coffee, lemonade and cookies will be served all day. No other food is available. For more information call Linda Cooley, Fair Chairperson at (530) 832-1184.
Carole’s website shows her creativity. The 5/13/09 Portola Reporter has a story “Craft Show Features Western Artist Carole Hale” . Take a moment to enjoy looking at her paintings here.
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Disney Decorated Train Makes National Tour
May 14, 2009It’s free and really something to see! In a huge non-traditional, attention-getting publicity tour, a decorated train will make a national tour starting May 22 in Los Angeles for Disney’s A Christmas Carol movie due out Nov 6. Anthony Breznican wrote about it in Disney stokes publicity engine in the May 8, 2009, USA Today. The article has the whole cross country schedule.
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Order Grandpa, Do It! I Do It, Too! In Time For Father’s Day!
May 13, 2009Grandpa, Do It! I Do It, Too now has the Look Inside! feature on Amazon! Order now for Father’s Day! It is perfect for grandpas! Austin and Grandpa Ron play around the house and outside in the dirt, play at the river and the seashore, watch big trains and play with little trains, rest and fall asleep after a big day of new adventures together. It really is cute.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
May 12, 2009The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is celebrating its 75th anniversary of its opening in 1934 with all kinds of special events. Of course there is the normal hiking, horseback riding and bicycle riding and other outdoor activities as well! It is the most visited of all the national parks. Jerry Shriver had an awesome article Power to the people’s park in the May 8, 2009 USA Today paper.
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The Lincoln Center 50th Birthday Celebration
May 12, 2009The Lincoln Center in NYC is celebrating its 50th birthday with a party to last all year starting May 11th. Elysa Gardner wrote about it in her article Free Events ring in big 5-0 for Lincoln Center in the May 8, 2009, USA Today. Lots of activities will be free including exhibits and performances. Also check out the Lincoln Center site for a calendar of events.
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