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Update Nov 2013: New Zoo closed in August 2012. The Jungle Gym has opened in the old New Zoo facility. = And Jungle Gym has also closed.2011 was a rough year for indoor play spaces in the Ann Arbor area with the closing of Jungle Java/Mocha Mountain and Zoobilee and Ypsilanti. The Chelsea Treehouse was also closed […]
This fall Chelsea Treehouse moved to a new location and reopened on Wednesday November 23, 2011. The new location is more convenient from Ann Arbor as it is closer to I-94, although it lacks the charm of being in downtown Chelsea. I had purchased the Groupon deal in November for 5 Treehouse passes. It was
2011 Princess Day Today I was saddened to hear that Tree Town Toys has elected not to renew their lease and will be closing in a few weeks. Read their announcement on the Tree Town Toys Facebook page. As a specialty toy retailer they carried products that were hard to find. At almost 6, my
Jungle Java has closed in Ann Arbor. The nearest location is in Canton. In the past week my daughter and I have visited Jungle Java twice at their newly reopened Ann Arbor location. We had only been there once before they had closed, so I don’t have a lot of points of comparison. My impression
Today my daughter and I attended EMU Theater’s performance of Go, Dog. Go! Overall we enjoyed the performance and I would recommend it.The opening scene was a little slow to develop and kids started getting antsy. Throughout the show there were a few things happening at stage level which were hard for some kids seated
I grew up watching the classic Christmas specials on TV. Every year it would be the same ones and it was always priority to make sure you were available the night it aired. I was 9 when we got our first VCR (a BetaMax), so maybe we started recording them. The classic specials have all
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Today my daughter and I attended the Ann Arbor Symphony’s Family Performance of Magical Musical Tales at Michigan Theater. My daughter loved the show. I was a little worried about how she would do since she was tired. We were out late Saturday night (at Into the Woods), but a 15 minute nap in the
Tonight was opening night of Skyline High School’s production of Into the Woods. We decided to take my daughter since she loves music and the fairy tales. The show was at 7:30 and arriving at 7:20 we had plenty of time to purchase tickets and find decent seats without a lot of extra time to
Today was Family Day at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Today’s topic was Roman Life in Egypt. My daughter loves both Roman and Egyptian history so she was thrilled. When the museum tweeted me about the event last week, I knew it was a must attend event for us. About Family Day There were lots of
Entering the C.S. Mott Open Housefrom UMHealthSystem’s Flickr Photo Stream We attended the Open House for the new C.S. Mott Hospital on Sunday. It was great to see the new facility and know that it is there if we ever need it. We kept joking with my daughter that we wanted this to be our
