Ugh. It is hot – I hate heat. I hate typing in heat even more, my hands get sweaty and my fingers stick to the touch pad on my laptop so it refuses to work. Between my birthday, the 4th of July holiday and having a horrible summer cold, I have been super lazy about blogging… I am so excited to post photos of this awesome diaper cake I made, I might have just found my calling! Stay Tuned!
Cheap Summer Fun at the Aquarium! June 29, 2008
Here’s a great inexpensive family adventure to get the kids off the couch during a warm summer evening. This summer, to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach will be open unitl 10pm on 10 Sundays in June, July and August. After 5pm on these special nights, everyone gets in for $10! That’s a great discount – 50% off for adults. And yes, you can easily see all there is to see in 5 hours, it is a fairly small aquarium but a really neat one. I have been a member for 3 years now and my daughter loves to go visit the fishies any time the fancy strikes. She buzzes thru the entire aquarium in about an hour. It is also an awesome Beat The Heat activity – they have LOVELY air conditioning! For more info, visit The Aquarium’s Website
From The Aquarium of the Pacific’s Website…
10 Summer Sundays
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Aquarium of the Pacific is presenting 10 Sunday nights this summer when it will be open until 10 p.m.
Starting on June 22 through August 31 (except August 18 when a Shark Lagoon night will be available), guests can enjoy the ambiance of the Aquarium at night with all exhibits open with the exception of Lorikeet Forest. There will be a special price of $10 admission for all guests after 5:00 p.m. Join the celebration and experience a variety of new exhibits and programs celebrating the Aquarium’s 10th anniversary.
Special free events will be held on select evenings:
July 13: Long Beach Municipal Band Concert, Aquarium Front Lawn
August 3: Tafesilafa’i Pacific Islander Festival, Aquarium Front Lawn
The Tafesilafa’i Festival is a fun-filled event where your children can get immersed in the wonder of Samoan tribal dance and ceremonial expression of the Pacific Islands. Come to all or part of two evenings of Pese & Siva (song and dance), Fire Making, Warrior Pulls, and more. It is an all day powerhouse dance championship competition on Saturday until the sun goes down. And a community worship experience and spiritual dance movement by young people of Polynesia on Sunday. Come to the Aquarium and stay for the Tafesilafa’i Festival.
Man, is it HOT! June 19, 2008
Ugh, I hate summer. I live by the beach and enjoy my year-round ocean breeze, but when the heat hits I get crazy. Today was the first day this year that I really started to feel it – it’s too early!! I am so not ready for it. I packed up my kiddos in my beautiful Bob Revolution Duallie and hit the pavement for our morning ritual, Starbucks on the way to the park, half hour to play, and then back home for lunch. This morning we got a little bit of a late start, out the door at 10:30am. In the 15 minutes it took to get from my door to Stabucks, the temp went from 77 to 91 degrees – at 11am! And this is literally one block from the ocean. Much to the kicking and screaming dismay of my 3 year old, I could not go one step farther in the heat once I felt the cool air conditioning at Bux, so my Frapp and I decided to skip the park and head back home. Really, it was way too hot for my 3 month old anyways, even in her shady little cozy seat. So home we went, and it all went downhill from there. And the worst part, I didn’t even get CLOSE to justifying the Frapp by walking it off, although as hot as it was I probably melted a few pounds by the sun’s work alone.
I hate this time of year with a passion, when the only time of day I can stand being at the park is the same time of day I’d much rather be sleeping!
More Summer Movie Madness June 18, 2008
I figured I’d just wrap up all of the free summer movies I could find, while I am on the subject.
Regal Entertainment Free Summer Movies
Selected G & PG movies start at 10AM each Tuesday and Wednesday during the festival. First-come, first-served seating is limited to theatre capacity – ticket are FREE
Schedule goes Tuesday 6/17 – Wed 8/13. Click Here for complete schedule
Participating theaters include Metro Pointe, Triangle Square, Aliso Viejo, Foothill Ranch and more. Each theater has different movies/schedules.
AMC Theaters Summer Movie Camp
Wednesdays, June 25th – August 6th, 10am All Movies $1 (All admission proceeds from AMC Summer MovieCamp will benefit Variety – The Children’s Charity and the Will Rogers Institute.)
The Only OC theater participating is the AMC Tustin 14
Movies:
June 25:Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
July 9:Alvin & The Chipmunks
July 16:Shrek The Third
July 23:Bee Movie
July 30:Surf’s Up
August 6:TMNT
Friday and Saturdays from May through September free Movies on the Beach. Brings the kids, lounge chairs and treats to see movies for the whole family on the giant inflatable screen. The schedule is long and in a pdf file, so I have just linked to it… View Movie Schedule
If you know of any others, please feel free to post in the comments!
It’s A Free For All! June 17, 2008
Here is a great family event for July that I happened upon today. The Orange County Performing Arts Center will host Free For All Movie Mondays again this summer. Dates and movies are below. It looks fun, we’ll be attending at least once, my 3 year old has already proclaimed that we must go see the Muppets!
Info from the OCPAC site:
Guests are encouraged to bring beach chairs or other easily portable items on which to sit, with set-up beginning at 5:30 p.m. Assorted candies, beverages and popcorn will be available for
purchase. The Newport Beach Film Festival will present a collection of short animated films prior to the main feature, which will begin at dusk. Guests may bring their own snacks and picnic suppers, though barbecues and similar food preparation will not be permitted.
Monday July 14th, Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade
Monday July 28th, The Muppet Movie
Monday August 4th, Hairspray
Be sure to post a comment and let everyone know how it went if you attend!
