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New York City is such a great place to visit in December. If you’re going to New York City with the kids, here are our ideas for what to do to make it festive. HOLIDAY LIGHTS Of course you’ll want to see the tree at Rockefeller Center. Just outside you’ll find Sak’s Fifth Avenue, [...] This post has been updated for 2011. It’s time for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. If you want to be one 3 million on-site viewers, you’ll want to do some research first. Jersey Kids has some places for you to start. And once the parade is over, we have ideas for what you can do [...] I did a corn maze for the first time last year, and am making it a yearly tradition. The kids are now old enough to last in there for more than 10 minutes. We wandered around for probably two hours (maybe an hour longer than was really fun for the kids). Interestingly, I was dizzy [...] Pick me! Pick me! Fall air brings apple picking. Did you know: - it takes 36 apples to make a gallon of cider – it takes 8-10 years for an apple tree to begin producing fruit – the science of apple growing is called pomology – a bushel of apples weighs 42 pounds Thank [...] Lunch time for the prairie dogs I’d heard good things about the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, NJ, but kept hesitating to go because my daughter Dori isn’t a big zoo fan. We finally decided to take the plunge – and even Dori had a fabulous time. It was a manageable size, and [...] “He said he was in Paris. He said it was urgent I come.” “To Paris?” I asked. “No, to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey…” Long Lost by Harlan Coben Six Flags Great Adventure This Jackson, NJ location is the is the largest Six Flags in the country. Woo hoo! Having been [...] This New Jersey park claims to be the largest drive-through safari outside Africa. It’s 350 acres, and it does take awhile to drive through. You’ll see something different each time you go through, but at least early in the day, it’s cooler for the animals and you may see more of the 1,100 that [...] It seems like there are two state fairs in New Jersey. There’s the State Fair at the Meadowlands, and the New Jersey State Fair Sussex County Farm & Horse Show. The latter is August 6-15, 2010. It has the stuff you might expect from a state fair, like a demolition derby, home arts, baking competitions, [...] This post is written and sponsored by HotelClub.com, offering hotel deals for more than 60,000 hotels in 134 countries. Whenever friends and family members with children ask where to eat in New York, I always ask several questions: How old are the little ones? How much of the [...] A visit to Ellis Island with kids is emotional no matter where you come from. The facility, which processed 12 million immigrants from 1892-1954, was the first stop for many coming to the U.S. The Statue of Liberty was the symbol of freedom – Ellis Island was the gateway to obtain it. They estimate that [...] |
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