{"id":120,"date":"2006-08-10T19:34:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T00:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/120"},"modified":"2006-08-18T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:30:09","slug":"top-things-for-kids-to-do-or-kids%e2%80%99-must-see-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/kids\/top-things-for-kids-to-do-or-kids%e2%80%99-must-see-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Things For Kids To Do (or Kids\u2019 Must-See Places)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heya, kiddies gather \u2018round. Let ol\u2019 Rey put hish teesh in sho he can shpeak-eashy. There, that\u2019s better. If you\u2019re a kid you\u2019re probably not looking at this site but I\u2019m sure someone looking for things for kids to do might stumble upon it. A kid should be able to take the list, mark off the place he\u2019s been to and have a nice little photo album to remember the event by.<\/p>\n

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  1. Disney World, FL: pretty important. All kids should go to Disney once and at an age where they can remember it and still be dazzled by it.<\/li>\n
  2. Great Adventure: it\u2019s in other parts of the country and it\u2019s not necessarily oodles of fun, but there are some cool things there for kids that\u2019ll just open their eyes. You can replace this with whatever other adventure park in your area<\/li>\n
  3. Sesame Place, PA: it\u2019s more fun for the kids, so parents brace yourselves. They will have huge grins when they see Elmo and company and that is worth it.<\/li>\n
  4. A Circus: The bigger the better. Go all out. Cotton Candy. The shows. Acrobats, everything. They\u2019ll remember it and cherish it and even nurture a healthy fear of clowns.<\/li>\n
  5. Renaissance Fair: These also happen all over the place. I have yet to go, but to be part of a large group of people all in costume, pretending to be from another age is fantastic.<\/li>\n
  6. An Outdoor Fair: Funnel Cake. Sweets. Hot Dogs. Fresh Lemonade. Animals. It just makes an all around great time.<\/li>\n
  7. The Bronx Zoo, NY: I\u2019ve been to the National Zoo and the Bronx Zoo tops it. I haven\u2019t gone to the west coast to see their zoos so don\u2019t hold me to this; but the Bronx Zoo is huge and great. You won\u2019t finish it in a day, but it\u2019ll be gorgeous throughout.<\/li>\n
  8. The Empire State Building, NY: Basically insert any super high building on your coast. I say the Empire State because of my home town and the grandeur of the hometown city. And really, from there you can go and have some great pizza, dirty water dogs or take a walk to the next place.<\/li>\n
  9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY: It\u2019s a fantastic museum with tons of stuff\u2014definitely better for a kid who is old enough to enjoy it but young enough not to be bored by art. Take them to see armor or jewelry from another era.<\/li>\n
  10. Phosphorescent Bay, Parguera: Take bacteria, give them the natural ability to give off a hue upon being disturbed and you have one of the most fantastic night shows ever. It\u2019s utterly magical and unfortunately the pictures won\u2019t be all that great\u2014but the memory would be fantastic.<\/li>\n
  11. Hershey Park Chocolate Tour, PA: Come on\u2026kids plus chocolate tasting. Instant win.<\/li>\n
  12. Smithsonian, DC: There\u2019s tons of stuff in the Smithsonion that\u2019ll just boggle a kids mind. I would\u2019ve listed the Museum of Natural History but this has that plus American History\u2014it\u2019s a great eye opener.<\/li>\n
  13. An Air Show: Any air show. Loud planes. Parachuting. Bi-Wings. Everything is just fantastic for kids.<\/li>\n
  14. A Tent in the Country: This is easy; take a tent and drive an hour away from your city. The kid might stay up most of the night but he\u2019d remember it.<\/li>\n
  15. A Petting Zoo: These are all over the place. Let the animal eat out of their hand; they might freak out but they\u2019ll think about how cool that was.<\/li>\n
  16. A Planetarium: Of course, the country gives you the real show, but a planetarium gives you zoom ins and close ups and that awesome feeling of floating in space.<\/li>\n
  17. An Interactive Science Lab\/Museum: A place where they can see things bubbling and smoking and hissing and even drink it and find out that they just made soda.<\/li>\n
  18. A Touch Me, Feel Me Museum: These come around every now and then but when they do, they\u2019re fantastic. It brings everything home to a kid because of the tactility of it all.<\/li>\n
  19. Niagara Falls, NY. Lots of water. Huge water falls. Awesome view. It\u2019ll blow their mind.<\/li>\n
  20. An Aquarium (where they can touch Dolphins): Aquariums can get boring if you\u2019re just walking through dark tunnels (although if it\u2019s a tunnel of glass where sharks and fish are swimming all about it could greatly change things) but if there\u2019s a chance to touch (or swim) with the dolphins the kids will love it.<\/li>\n
  21. Ice-Skating Rink: All over the place and should never be neglected. Kids will love the ice though get annoyed with the falling\u2014but they\u2019ll remember it.<\/li>\n
  22. Sledding in the Country: Much better than ice-skating unfortunately whoever is taking them will have lots of up-hill walking to do.<\/li>\n
  23. Overseas: Anywhere. I don\u2019t mean overseas like Puerto Rico (Phosphorescent Bay). I mean anywhere in the world (Europe, Russia, Greece, Spain) where they can see that there\u2019s more to the picture than the Americas.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Have I taken my kids to all these places? No. Have I gone to all these places? Yeah, most of them. Do I plan to take my kids to all these places? Definitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Heya, kiddies gather \u2018round. Let ol\u2019 Rey put hish teesh in sho he can shpeak-eashy. There, that\u2019s better. If you\u2019re a kid you\u2019re probably not looking at this site but I\u2019m sure someone looking for things for kids to do might stumble upon it. A kid should be able to take the list, mark off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}