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Reading in the Bookmobile This Saturday morning Washtenaw Success by Six hosted Touch a Truck at Briarwood Mall. The event featured a number of trucks, buses, and other vehicles from local organizations including police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and many more. There were also a number of local groups there providing information and activities for […]
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Update Nov 2013: The Jungle Gym has opened in the old New Zoo facility. Unfortunately New Zoo Play Cafe in Ypsilanti has closed as of today. They were not able to make the business profitable. We never made it to New Zoo since they had reopened but were looking forward to visiting. You can view
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On Sunday, my daughter and I attended Nate the Great, the final performance in the 2011-2012 Not Just for Kids series. We had purchased our tickets through a LivingSocial deal, so I left plenty of time to exchange our voucher for tickets. We had no problem exchanging our vouchers. I just walked up to the
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Last night we attended the A2 Grub Crawl with friends. We had a great time and will definitely plan to participate the next time the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Chamber hosts a Grub Crawl. Our friends had also attended the Ypsilanti Grub Crawl in the fall and recommended it to us. The Grub Crawl ran from 6-9p
I found a golden egg… does it unlock an Angry Birds level Last weekend we attended the Ann Arbor Jaycees Egg Scramble and Springfest. The 2012 event was held at Southeast Park (the northwest corner of Platt & Ellsworth). We had previously attended the 2010 event at Veterans Memorial Park. We were unable to attend
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Stadium View Late last week my family and I signed up for the Big House Big Heart 1 mile run/walk combination. I would have liked to have done the 5K, but I thought we had a conflict until the week of the race and had not trained for the 5K. We also did the 1
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I was very excited last month to hear that the Magic School Bus was at the Impression 5 Museum in Lansing. Yesterday my daughter and I visited the museum with a friend. Admission to Impression 5 is $5/person from age 1-65. Seniors are $4.50. Ann Arbor Hands On Museum members are admitted free of charge
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With the Magic Tree House Bus My daughter loves the Magic Tree House series of books and was so excited when she heard that they were bringing the Passport to Adventures Tour to Detroit. A few weeks afar Detroit was announced as a tour city, it was revealed that the tour was actually coming to
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Wow, not only is the Magic Treehouse landing in Ann Arbor today, but The Magic School Bus is in Lansing until April 7. These are my daughter’s two favorite book series (plus American Girl) and trust me, I mix them up often enough. The Magic School Bus is at the Impression 5 Science Center in
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Yesterday my daughter and I visited the Henry Ford for the first time since the new Driving in America exhibit opened at the end of January. As we started through the area the kids kept asking where the K’nex racing cars our. We missed them the first time through the exhibit much to the disappointment
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