July 2011

Get the Color with Blu Free App and Cover our Facebook Wall!

Just in case your little ones (or you) are so excited for Rio to come out next Tuesday, you just can’t wait another minute, Albany Kid wants to tell you about the app Rio the Movie, Coloring with Blu for your iDevice or Android. And it’s FREE. You can mix and match characters and backgrounds from the [...]

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Rio Beach Party! and a Giveaway, too!

by Cie McCullough Buschle

All across the US this weekend the beaches will be going to the birds – the Rio birds. That’s because on August 2nd Rio, the movie, comes out on DVD and Blu-ray. If you live, or are vacationing, near a coastal beach, look for Blu flying in the sky on a special aerial banner. Or, [...]

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Going Bad In South Dakota: Tourist Traps and the Badlands

by Sandra Foyt

As we headed out to Yellowstone, I heard a slight grinding sound coming from the nether regions of my 2003 Chevy Suburban. It wasn’t particularly disturbing, but I casually asked Traveling Companion to keep an eye out for an auto repair shop as it couldn’t hurt to ask if this was a concerning sound. Just [...]

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What’s Wright with Iowa? Magic Mountains, Czech Village, Cedar Rock, and Loose Meats

by Sandra Foyt

This Foodie Adventures Road Trip has been plagued with instances of extreme bad luck, and moments of sheer fortune. Finding not one, but three street side parking spots in downtown Chicago right in front of the pizza parlor we planned on visiting was a stroke of good fortune. Waking up to find a tire flattened [...]

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Chicago – Foodie Adventures and the Deep Dish Pizza

by Sandra Foyt

As the second day of our Foodie Adventures Road Trip was also the second day of battling the scourge that is Giardia, the day was high on mileage but low on food consumption. Early in the day, another member of our tribe was felled by the virulent bug when my son started to complain of [...]

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First Stop On Our Foodie Adventures Road Trip – Beef on Weck in Buffalo, NY

by Sandra Foyt

Our Foodie Adventures Road Trip was not off to a good start. The night before we were to set off on the road, when I should have been packing the car, I was writhing in pain from stomach camps in the early stages of a bout of Giardia, a souvenir from the Caribbean. We headed [...]

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Discover Monte Cristi Dominican Republic in Photos

by Sandra Foyt

I could write a book on our travels through the undiscovered treasure that is Monte Cristi, a province in northwestern Dominican Republic that is located on the frontier border of Haiti. My children and I came to volunteer in a sustainable development project that originated as a crazy notion on LATISM, a Twitter gathering of [...]

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Mucking About at the Mountaintop Arboretum’s Family Outdoor Awareness Workshop

by Gina Martin

With the weather being so wonderful this summer, I was inspired to visit the Mountaintop Arboretum in Tannersville, near Hunter Mountain NY, to check out their Family Outdoor Awareness programs, held every Friday in July, and every Saturday in August. My son and I attended the 7/15 “Exploring the Water” session, and had a great [...]

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Planning a USA Road Trip In Search of Foodie Adventures

by Sandra Foyt

We’re heading out on another US road trip. In 2009, we were a mom, two kids, and a jam-packed Chevy Suburban looping the country looking for storybook settings in a Read Across America Road Trip. This time, a couple of friends are joining us in the same jam-packed Chevy Suburban, and we’re going in search [...]

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A Day Out at Jiminy Peak Adventure Park

by Guest Post

The following is a guest post by Sarah Firisen. My family has Jiminy Peak season ski passes and my children ski on the race team there and so we end up spending most of our free time at this Massachusetts mountain resort from December through March. Come late spring, early summer, it’s only natural then [...]