I believe that they are closed Mondays, but open all other days of the week until October from 8:00am until 5:00pm. For more information, you may contact them at 661.944.2425.
I got a lead today from my friend Beena A. She recently took her family to Yingst Ranch just outside Palmdale. (To be precise 35349 80th Street East in Littlerock, California.) The orchard grows peaches, white peaches, plums, apples, and pears all available for you to pick!
I believe that they are closed Mondays, but open all other days of the week until October from 8:00am until 5:00pm. For more information, you may contact them at 661.944.2425.
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If you are looking for free performances to watch with your kiddos, and you live in the Valley, I just got a lead through Red Tricycle.
Monday mornings at 10 am, the Valley Cultural Center will host shows for children. The first show (tomorrow, July 29th) involves two kid favorites -- music and dogs. Check out their website for more info. Guest blog from experienced family-camping mom, Elana A.:
On Sundays (five more including this Sunday) there is a performance of "John Henry" for kids at 12:00 pm in Carlson Park in Culver City. The park is located at Motor and Braddock (It is not far from Trader Joe's on Culver Blvd.). We went last week, and it was very well done and a lot of fun. They also have a show called "Leading Ladies" at 2:00 pm which is more for older kids and adults. We did not see that one and I am not sure how appropriate it is for kids. If you would like more info. you can go to the CCPT website. My eldest wanted to go to the Martial Arts History Museum in Burbank today. It wasn't very expensive as museums go (check the website for the free day monthly, too), and the kids enjoyed it very much. The museum is very small, but they pack a lot in it. It's very well organized, and children are given a scavenger hunt for facts when they enter -- they took great interest in finding the neat factoids to fill in the blanks (Did you know the martial art indigenous to Hawaii is called Lua? Or that kung fu is Chinese, but karate is Japanese?). The museum visit took about an hour. We paired it with the Art of the Brick exhibit (strangely, in the Glendale Forest Lawn Cemetery's Museum). The later was free and kinda appealing, but held my kids' attention for all of 10 minutes. As an addendum to the earlier stop, though, it was okay.
We were getting ready to meeting friends at the Northridge Skateland to take advantage of our free skating coupons through Kids Skate Free, when the phone rang.
"Check your ticket," my friend said. "The times printed on our tickets are almost over. We won't be able to use them during the time we were planning to meet." Lo and behold, my husband checked out tickets, and we had the same problem. The thing that really annoyed me is that we'd printed and used our coupons two weeks earlier -- but the time printed on those tickets had been different. Lesson learned: check your tickets and don't assume the times are the same week to week. Thanks to Mimi S. for telling me about the following deal:
We've always wanted to go to Sky High Sports for lots of jumping fun, but the price -- $12 an hour -- gave us sticker shock. Enter the Woodland Hills location's Family Night Tuesdays: a large pizza and 1 hour of jumping for a family for 4 is just $30.00! And, reportedly, kosher pizza is available! For more details, see the Sky High Sports website. Last week, we went to White Point Nature Preserve. I would recommend the outing -- the ranger at the nature preserve is very friendly and knowledgeable, and the views are beautiful -- but I highly recommend that unless you live in Long Beach, San Pedro, or Palos Verdes, you pair up White Point with another activity in the area in order to make the drive worthwhile. The longest hiking trail is still only 0.8 miles long, and the nature center is smallish, even though its packed with stuff. Great outings to pair up with would be Point Fermin, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, kite flying by the Korean Friendship Bell, or the Marine Mammal Care Center.
Today, I went to Roxbury Park for the first time in a few weeks and discovered that the community center, basketball courts, and the adjacent parking have been demolished so construction can begin on the improved facilities. At the moment, the parking along the alley is also closed off. The playgrounds, baseball field, and tennis facilities are all still open, though. Look for parking at the meters along Roxbury. Finally, several people wanted to know about places to volunteer with their kids. I just learned that Big Sunday, which organizes volunteering opportunities on Sundays, now hosts "Thursday Mornings on Melrose." From the Big Sunday website: For 6 weeks this summer, Big Sunday will host fun and easy-to-do activities that will help a different group. We’ll meet at the Big Sunday offices (6111 Melrose in L.A.) each Thursday from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. First up, on July 11: Making games for ailing kids with cancer at Cedars-Sinai. All ages are welcome (and needed)! A light breakfast (what, you thought we wouldn’t feed you?) and any hands-on training will be provided. Thursday Mornings on Melrose will run every Thursday from July 11th until August 15th. To help out, or for more details, contact Lindsey at [email protected]. Hope these tips are useful! Still looking for things to do for the Fourth? Here are three links for events over the holiday:
One place you won't find fireworks this year is Culver City. The high school is under construction, so the annual July Fourth shindig is off this year. Red Tricycle today posted an excellent list of water play areas in the L.A. area, with addresses, etc. all in one place. I added another great splash pad in the comments. Check it out!
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On Sunday, which was pretty scorching in most of SoCal, our family hiked down to our favorite tide pool in Palos Verdes. We stayed cool in the ocean breeze as our toes dipped into the water.
And we saw great stuff: tons of anemones (two types!), three kinds of crabs, limpets, mussels, barnacles, burgundy and ocher sea stars, and more. In case you want to take your kids to see tide pools, I just found this great post about tidepooling with kids. The blogger even lists several tide pools in Southern California at the end of the post. |