In summer, the Pacific Northwest beckons – it’s time to explore Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with kids. Our favorite place to stay is Sequim, which is close to Olympic National Park, and typically sunny, when it’s raining in other parts of the peninsula.
Read more…Petaluma Adobe: Rancho Living History Day
On Living History Day at the Petaluma Adobe, step back in time to a working ranch of 1840. Volunteers dress up in historic clothing, and kids have fun with hands-on activities – write with a quill pen, stamp designs on leather, weave a basket , rope a “bull,” listen to music, find out what life is like 150 years ago.
Read more…Sonoma Farm Trails: Hello baby goats & lambs
Kids will have fun on spring Farm Trails, a weekend visiting working farms in Sonoma County, seeing (and petting) baby goats, lambs, pot-bellied pigs, chickens, miniature horses, and sampling locally produced eggs, cheese, honey.
Read more…Southern Utah: Land of sleeping rainbows
Southern Utah is world famous for its stunning desert landscape, slot canyons, arches, and spires, a “land of sleeping rainbows.” Here’s two of our favorite “hidden gems” for family trips: Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef National Park.
Read more…“Vamos a Feria” in Seville
April is time for the spring fair in Seville – Feria de Abril. Horse drawn carriages clip clop through the streets, at the fairground families and friends gather in “casetas” to eat, drink, sing and dance, kids rush onto amusement park rides, thousands of lights twinkle and glow in the darkness at night.
Read more…New books for spring
We live in northern California, and spring this year is spectacular, drought years with brown hills are gone, replaced with emerald green wherever we look. A trip to various favorite bookstores, we returned with a bag full of new children’s books for spring.
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