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Bookbound has since closed. Booksweet is a new bookstore in the same location. Check out their upcoming events. Bookbound is a new bookstore on Plymouth Rd. They had a soft opening this weekend and will be open from 11a-6p today through Friday. The are holding their Grand Opening celebration on Saturday, September 7 from 11a-8p. They […]
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In July our friends from Philadelphia came out to visit the weekend that the Philadelphia Phillies were in town to play the Tigers. So the 7 of us (my family of 3, their family of 4) attended a game at Comerica Park in Detroit. Comerica Park is located in downtown Detroit and is easily accessed
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Three weeks ago I attended the Mitten Moms Conference for Michigan (mostly Mom) Bloggers in Dearborn. It was the first blogging conference that I had attended and it was great to meet other Michigan Bloggers and to learn more about blogging. The conference ran from Friday afternoon through an optional Sunday Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village
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This afternoon my daughter and I met friends at the new Blue Heron Bay spray play facility at Independence Lake that opened this summer. It was our first visit to the new facility. When I first heard about Blue Heron Bay at Independence Lake, I was excited because my daughter had not particularly liked the
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After 3 attempts at an indoor play space, this location is now a karate studio. The play structure has been removed. One of my Facebook followers just shared that The Jungle Gym opened this week in Ypsilanti. The Jungle Gym is located at 1834 Whittaker Rd in Paint Creek Shopping Center on Whittaker Rd, in the
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This post was originally published on my Fun with Your Kid Blog. I have consolidated the content onto Ann Arbor with Kids. As I mentioned earlier, we spent a few days in Niagara Falls, ON earlier this month. I had previously been to Niagara Falls in 1986. The main draw to Niagara Falls are the
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This post was originally published on my Fun with Your Kid Blog. I have consolidated the content onto Ann Arbor with Kids. Before we visited Niagara Falls this summer, I had previously been in 1986 and one of the things that I remember was all of the touristy “kitsch” places. There is still plenty of
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On Saturday morning, we attended the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival starting with the parade. The parade kicks off at 10a (actually, a couple of minutes later). We made sure to arrive before the road closures began and parked on River Street near Michigan Avenue. We walked up Michigan Avenue to Huron St and watched the parade
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Saturday morning out family attended the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival Parade and then went to the Festival. We started our Festival visit at the Cueter Kids Corner. The inflatables were still deflated, so we headed for the craft tent. My daughter looked at the various crafts and was determined to do the rock painting. This required
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Before we went to the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival this weekend I told my daughter about the rubber duck race which is held at 5p on Sunday. She loved seeing a large duck in the parade and wanted to enter a duck herself. The Rubber Duck Race is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Ypsilanti. When
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