We already knew our St. Louis Zoo was the best free thing to do in town, but now it’s been voted the top free attraction in America according to USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards Program. The Saint Louis Zoo was the only zoo in the running for the USA Today contest. There were 20 attractions listed, including …
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Kirkwood Park is great example of a city park that you’d drive across town just to take your kids to visit. It has everything a park needs: lots of playground equipment, rubbery surfaces, a cool area for little kids and a challenging area for big kids. There’s even a fitness trail for the grown ups. Oh, and …
Pokemon GO has hit St. Louis like a zombie plague: everywhere I go I see people wandering around, staring at their phones. I mean, way more than they usually do. After downloading the game ourselves, we decided to hit the city park to look for Pokestops. The fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk heat kept most of the park’s normal inhabitants indoors: …
Letting the kids build a fort out of bed sheets and pillows is a great way to beat the boredom blues…but it also wrecks your living room! Avoid the giant mess and head over to the Magic House this summer to build the Ultimate Fort–at their house! The latest exhibit from the Magic House is …
Did you know the blues are the bedrock of all really good American music? Yep. I never occurred to me that someone whaling on a harmonica a hundred years ago could led to ZZ Top and Adele on my iPod, but it did. Wanna guess where I pick up THAT bit of trivia? Psst. Lemme tell you something before you …
Yesterday was National Beer Day, otherwise known as the anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition! Every native St. Louisian worth their hops knows that local brew king August A. Busch, Jr. pulled out all the stops on April 7, 1933, marking the day that his family company could get back to business–and many St. Louisians could get back to …
I was super excited when I learned that Sky Zone had opened a second location in Fenton, much closer to my house than the first St. Louis Sky Zone in Chesterfield. My kids have had a lot of fun jumping around the trampoline park, and with one practically in the backyard it’s so easy to drop …
St. Louis is a huge a baseball town and taking your kids to a Cardinal’s game is a veritable rite of childhood passage. Unfortunately, if you don’t plan ahead, a trip to the ballpark can also be expensive, hot and boring for little kids! We’ve been to quite a few games and watched the Cards play from seats …