Montana: Disc Golf Family Fun

Even the teenagers were talking about how much fun they had on our family outing to Makoshika State Park to play a round of disc golf. And you don’t have to be the parent of teenagers to know how impressive that is! We had planned to spend some time checking out the park, and started our visit with a stop into the gift shop and museum. On a whim, we picked up a set of Frisbees from the park gift shop. Three brightly-colored discs in hand, we picked up a map (score card on the back) and pencil...

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Nevada: A Buffet of Learning in Vegas

When you are three, everything is an opportunity for learning. Even a buffet! Here are some ideas for engaging your preschooler in learning by playing…with their food. Colors Challenge your child – how many different colors can you find to put on your plate? This is a great way to encourage kids to eat a variety of items from a variety of food groups. Bria found purple beets, green grapes, brown roast beef, and a white egg. We took our time browsing, talking about all the different hues we could...

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Nevada: Las Vegas Monorail

On the day we decided to explore the strip, we thought we’d try out the Vegas Monorail. The map showed it going from one end of the strip to the other, so we thought it would be a great way to explore and get around. From the beginning we found that the conditions were not quite ideal for us. Staying at Circus Circus as we were, it was a fair distance to a station (You see that block on the map...

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Nevada: Visiting Hoover Dam (and dispelling the myth that all dams are made by beavers)

During one day of our accidental vacation in Las Vegas, the three of us made a trek to visit the massive feat of human engineering that is Hoover Dam. The 726 foot dam forms a towering border between Nevada and Arizona. Shaped like a huge curved axe head, the dam is 45 feet wide at the top and 660 feet (that’s two football fields!) thick at the bottom. Justin and I had both been to the dam before, but that was prior to 2010, when the new O’Callaghan-Tillman Memorial Bridge opened, which allows...

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