For over 25 years, Great Wolf Lodge has been providing fun, family friendly get-aways in resorts designed to provide lodging, food, and entertainment all in one indoor place so you can visit and enjoy year round. Since hearing of their opening in the new Manteca location, our family has been wanting to visit and experience…
A warehouse in Hayes Valley is not usually where you expect to find art from one of the most famous impressionist painters in the world. But just off Van Ness and Market Street, there is a warehouse that houses the amazing Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit. Massimiliano Siccardi a brilliant digital artist, conceived of the idea…
After spending months locked up with your family, you may be in desperate need of quality time with your significant other. As cases start to decline, people are starting to think about travel, and in particular the chance for maybe a romantic getaway. If you have some childcare from your “quaran-team”, even an evening with…
Every year I write a post to recap the year. This year, like many, had its intense highs, and its dizzying lows. But at the end of the year, I’m a year older, a year wiser, and a more reflective of what I have experienced and achieved. Instead of giving you the top five posts…
Last holiday, my children saw the ice rinks set up and asked several times to go ice skating. For one reason or another, we could never get ourselves together in time to make it to a rink. By mid January, the rinks in our area were all taken down and we missed our opportunity to…
The Nutcracker – an age old holiday tradition. The classic ballet by Tchaikovsky that tells the story of a girl, her Nutcracker, and the epic dream that takes her from a rat fight under the Christmas tree to a feast of dances in the forest of the sugar plum fairy. Many years ago I saw…
December has always been my favorite time of year. I love Christmas, the whole Christmas season. Every year my dad took off two weeks around Christmas and he took my sister and I on fun, seasonal activities. We would get hot coco at the Christmas Tree Farm, visit a living nativity scene, and we had…
Just the name sounds promising, Messy Art Day. With a name like that, how can you not go? Living in the bay area, I know that all the preschools these days use label like “sensory exploration” and “creativity through different mediums”. But when I was a kids it was just called art, or messy art,…