... things to do in Austin with kids. I know it's a day late, but it's a good one --for everything on this list, admission is $5.50 or less per person, excluding food. A lamo Drafthouse children’s movies – last Saturday of each month (free!). Watch the B ats at Congress Avenue bridge (free!). Tour the state C apitol (free!). Watch the water rush over the D am at Red Bud Isle (free!). Swim at E ilers Park , a.k.a. Deep Eddy (adults $3, kids $1). Find f ossils at the Dino Pit at Austin Nature and Science Center in Zilker Park (free!). Play Peter Pan Mini- G olf ($5 adults, $3 for kids 5 and under). Visit the Texas State H istory museum ($5.50/adult, $3/kid over 5). Eat I ce cream at Amy’s (easily <$5 per kid). Play with the J umbo games exhibit at Austin Children’s Museum ($5.50/person over age 2). Visit K iddie Acres (admission is free, but the rides will cost you a little) (Wednesday is discount day). Also, K erbey Lane -- kids eat f
I love Pepys's blog. I've tried reading print versions when I don't have access to it, but it's just not the same. It's annoying to spend five times as long on an entry than if I hadn't read the comments, but it's so much more rewarding.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine how much later we would START the formal education of chidren if we waited for the concept of delayed gratificiation to kick in?! They would be twenty and just entering the firt grade. Shoot, what am I thinking? I know some that are plenty older than that who haven't mastered it! That would make for a much more leveled education field, though. If every one in the 10th grade were at the same "mental age" it would make my job loads easier! Then I wouldn't have students who don't know until the 10th grade that Iraq is NOT a part of the US, or that there was in fact not an "ocean-thingy" in between the Republic of Texas and the United States of America until we joined them (at which time the thingy must have evaporated?!?) or that there was not a PHYSICAL separation of the USA and CSA! Argh!
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