Comments on: Friday miscellany: Spring fun updates and videos of many sorts https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/friday-miscellany-spring-fun-updates-and-videos-of-many-sorts/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 20 May 2022 19:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Katharine https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/friday-miscellany-spring-fun-updates-and-videos-of-many-sorts/#comment-352533 Fri, 20 May 2022 19:06:38 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18582#comment-352533 I’d love to hear a BoBW episode on listener ideas for big and small adventures. It’s always great to hear/read what you and your family have been doing, but because options depend on location/season/budget, perhaps a deep dive episode or gathering listener suggestions could give an even broader range of possibilities for inspiration. I need to make more effort with this one I think!

]]> By: Elisabeth https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/friday-miscellany-spring-fun-updates-and-videos-of-many-sorts/#comment-352444 Fri, 20 May 2022 14:45:10 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18582#comment-352444 Your goal to take an adventurous spring break trip and have that be Paris is…wonderful. I know you encountered some challenges along the way – especially with the return COVID testing – but I think it’s delightful your older kids have this memory with you!

Probably my all-time favourite poem is Loveliest of Trees by Housman (if you’ve never read it, I think you’d enjoy it very much!), and your post about cherry blossoms in DC was an impetus for me to pay more attention to the beautiful ones in my hometown.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/friday-miscellany-spring-fun-updates-and-videos-of-many-sorts/#comment-352440 Fri, 20 May 2022 14:35:36 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18582#comment-352440 In reply to BethC..

@Beth – these are great! Sounds like the trip is going well and great advice on reciprocal museum admissions. Not only are you seeing a lot you’re saving money too!!

]]> By: BethC. https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/05/friday-miscellany-spring-fun-updates-and-videos-of-many-sorts/#comment-352438 Fri, 20 May 2022 14:31:30 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18582#comment-352438 Here is how my list panned out:
1. Road trip: 6 states, 6 weeks, 6 baseball stadiums with my husband. Kids are grown and I just retired, and after 2 years of pandemic house-bound-ness, I am ready to carpe diem!
Update-we are on the trip now-just reached the halfway point yesterday. It has been great. One unexpected bonus has been the ability to use reciprocal museum membership privileges. Before leaving on our trip, I got a Friends and Family membership at the Saint Louis Art Museum-it provides reciprocal free admission at over 900 other museums. So far, we’ve been to the Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, DIA and the Wright Museum in the Detroit area, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. You can find reciprocal membership deals for children’s , history and science museums as well as gardens. Sometimes, the free admission gets you into free special exhibits as well.
2. Go to New York to see a play-booked with my sister, daughter and niece. Update: Saw Hadestown, enjoyed our time together, and did a NYC Tenement Museum tour as a bonus.
3. Continue hiking. I was in a Wednesday afternoon hiking group that switched to evenings after the time change. I don’t want to do evenings, so I did some research and found a Tuesday afternoon hiking group. Invited 2 new friends from my Wednesday hiking group, and they are going, too. Update: Hiked every Tuesday this spring that we were not away.
4. Do some sort of outdoor evening activity. I found one for this Friday night-our local nature center is having campfires, astronomy and nature talks under the stars. Going with friends-a bonus. Update: Nope. The nature center canceled some of the planned activities for the evening, so we all bailed.
5. Would love to check out Holland Ridge Farms, which is a half-hour away from me, but the website says that you can’t get tickets yet. Update: Nope. Never figured out how to book this.
6. Meet a friend in Philadelphia for lunch-happening next week. Update: Done-we ended up eating takeout at a really pretty small park that my friend located.
7. Meet up with a college friend for lunch whom I have not seen in about 5 years-we had spoken about making plans a month ago, but when I texted him to firm up said plans, he had just landed in Cartegena, Columbia for a last minute vacation. Never fear, parents of littles-you will someday get to do this kind of spontaneous travel stuff. Update: Not yet, but another college friend who I have not seen in a while just invited us to meet up with him at the Museum of Natural History in NY or at gardens in Westchester-he is a tour guide at both.
8. Go to the movies. In a movie theatre! Update. Nope.
9 .Plant veggies. Update: Planted what we could before we left on our long trip. We have a friend coming by to water.
10. Finish reading Joyce Maynard’s latest book. I have been reading her work since I was in college eons ago. Last summer, we were at the beach at the Jersey Shore for the day and I randomly discovered that she was doing a reading from her new book that evening at a library a mere two towns away. On a Sunday night! We went, of course, and I got to meet her. Update: Finished the book.

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