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The Top Ten Places We’ve Taken the Kids (So Far!)

We take the kids as many places as possible within our work and school schedule and other commitments (sports, activities, etc.). Some are just nearby museums or historical sites and some are major vacations.  All of them add to our educational experience, but some stand out more than others as favorites.

I’m sure this list will change because in the next fifteen months we have plans to visit a whole lot of new places, including Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Legoland, and Disneyland.

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R.E. Olds Museum in Lansing, MI

On our trip to Port Huron last month, we decided we wanted to stop somewhere fun about halfway to break up the drive. Plus we had all day and didn’t really need to get to Port Huron until 5pm or so.  I asked around for suggestions and the winner was to come up through Lansing instead of through Detroit and check out the R.E. Olds Museum.

Something you need to know about my family: we love museums. We go to as many as we can, as often as we can. Whenever someone says they just aren’t a “museum person” it makes me sad. It’s one of our favorite family activities–even my four year old tends to enjoy it (although he gets bored faster than the rest of us).

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Port Huron, Michigan (Or as we call it, Almost Canada)

My daughter competes in Bible Quizzing. It’s not something that is familiar to a lot of people and it seems to be something that mostly happens in the midwest region… A lot of her quiz meets are local and against local teams.  But she also travels to Invitational events–each year there are two in South Bend, one in Michigan, one local, and one in Canada (that’s next week and Momma is nervous!). My middle child also competes but he is in a  children’s league that is completely local.

We had really wanted to go to Canada with her. We were even going to pay the rush fee on our passports to get them in time. But work schedules didn’t work out in our favor. So we ended up taking time off to go the Michigan Invitational as well. It was held in Port Huron, which we now lovingly call Almost Canada.

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