Today we went to Six Flags Over Texas with our 15 month old. We decided to go at the end of July …. bad idea. It was about 95 Degrees at 10am. It was 100 degrees by the time we left at 1pm. Ugh … Because we arrived so early, we had to wait in…
I just learned of this ballet that blends classical music and African music from Sesame Street. It looks amazing and I’d love to see the whole thing. If anyone knows of where this ballet is being danced, please let me know. From the Huffington Post At the beginning of the segment, now available on…
We’re visiting folks in Alexandria, Louisiana so I decided to share a few things to do while in town. #1 Tioga Heritage Park and Museum This building served as department store, grocery, post office and general gathering place for decades and was the defining landmark in this little mill town built to house lumber workers…
Today we had a day to kill about 8 hours in Atlanta with a toddler and not a lot of money. Solution? A day doing free things! MLK We started out by heading the Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site governed by the National Park Service. It’s beautiful! The whole park is a few blocks…
Today we visited Six Flags Over Georgia. It was hot. That should really be the end of my post, but I’ll elaborate for those that have never enjoyed (and I use the term “enjoyed” loosely) a summer in Atlanta. This is our second trip to Six Flags Over Georgia in as many days because the…
I found this list and I have no idea how honest it is, but I wanted to bookmark it for myself. http://www.familyvacationcritic.com/10-best-kid-friendly-airports/art/
This summer we had an ambitions plan to fly to Chicago, Atlanta, DC and South Africa. We were planning on buying so many tickets that I wanted to get the tickets as cheaply as possible so I did the unthinkable …. I searched for ANY carrier and went with the cheapest one: US Airways. I…
Since one our party’s passport didn’t arrive in time, we couldn’t go from Detroit to Toronto and ended up driving all the way around Lake Erie up to Niagra Falls. While figuring out what to do we found a safari park in OH for $8 pp in OH. It’s $8 so why not try it?…
We`re in Chicago and decided to visit the Taste, the Chicago History Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Du Sable Museum.we also soent an hour and a half waiting inthe drive through for Krispy Kreme, but that’s an adventure for another day. Anyhoo …. here are some images from our adventures:
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