Indoor Adventures

Gaithersburg Community Museum

September 14, 2009

9 S Summit Avenue (map it) Gaithersburg, MD 20877 301−258−6160 The Gaithersburg Community Museum is nei­ther big nor fancy — it is just a one room affair with a model train set up,  gift items for sale, his­tor­i­cal dis­plays, and a friendly docent — but it is worth stop­ping by if you are in the […]

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I did not get around to work­ing Regal’s Free Summer Movies into our sum­mer sched­ule until their final weeks. This left my chil­dren with a taste of the movie the­ater and a han­ker­ing for more. Luckily, the folks at Tally Ho in Leesburg know school hasn’t started yet, and have us cov­ered with their $1 […]

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Razzle Dairy Bar

August 23, 2009

Razzle Dairy Bar 13 Fairfax St SE (map it) Leesburg, VA 20175–3617 (703) 777‑1420 A visit to the Razzle Dairy Bar can com­plete a sticky sum­mer after­noon or evening, and is some­times just the thing to shake up a win­ter rou­tine. Razzle is located in an often over­looked cor­ner of the Virginia Village shop­ping plaza […]

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TALLY HOme for the Holidays

December 10, 2008

If you are stick­ing around for the hol­i­days and need to escape from the extended fam­ily for a while, check this out. The Tally Ho Theater in down­town Leesburg is offer­ing $1 screen­ings of Family Holiday Favorites & Childrens Christmas Classics between December 19/20th and 24th. Call or check the web­site for exact dates & times.

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Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (writ­ten by Teresa Bateman and illus­trated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and rhymes that please me) they end […]

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Jumping Jack Sports

June 29, 2008

JumpingJackSports.com 44710 Cape Court Suite #128 Ashburn, VA 20147 (map it) (703) 858‑9901 I have not checked this place out yet but have heard good things. In the mean­time, check out their site. If you’ve been there, please share your impres­sions by leav­ing a comment below.

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A local mom shared a site with me that could prove use­ful given all the upcom­ing sum­mer movie screen­ings. kids-in-mind.com reviews movies and rates their appro­pri­ate­ness for chil­dren. I have looked over the reviews of a few movies we have seen recently and they seem to be accu­rate and thor­ough. Summer Family Movie Screenings: Regal […]

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227 Maple Avenue Vienna, VA 22180 (map it) (703) 255‑1566 Now that I have been to three of the week­day morn­ing Tot Rock shows that Jammin’ Java offers, I feel some­what qual­i­fied to talk this venue up. I get the sense that Jammin’ Java would be a great place for a night out sans kids, […]

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11950 Grand Commons Ave Fairfax, VA 22030 (map it) (571) 522‑6568 Watch your kids Climb the Pinnacle at the REI Fairfax! We went this week­end and it was fun to see how dif­fer­ently my two kids approached the wall. Both pretty much tack­led it in char­ac­ter You can find details on hours (Wed 4–8, Sat […]

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