Cooking Camp

Alex, Kate, Steven, and Ryan have been going to a Cooking Camp this week. It is free through the college. They have had a blast. They are learning everything from balancing your diet to proper handwashing and avoiding food poisoning. They have cooked their own lunch as part of the class each day. There are so many FREE things available to kids in the summer if you just check with your library or in thenewspaper.Almost everyday we go to FREE school summer lunch. They have it in over 15 parks and schools in the area. There are FREE movies in the park on Family Night and Wed. nights. There are FREE concerts everyday in the park at lunch time. Every Saturday there is something family friendly that is FREE. This week it is ice skating. Last week it was the Nature Museum. An old theatre downtown has FREE movies once a month for kids. They just need to bring a milk cap. Elderly people run it and have on the uniform and flashlights like the olden days. They always have an intermisson and give away a FREE bike to some lucky kid in the audience. Also they have drawings for books, games, and snacks. At the end they give each kid a Moon Pie. (those nasty stale graham cracker things) Of course all of the libraries and their "discovery times"/storytimes are free. The Summer Reading Program is always awesome and usually gives good incentive prizes for kids of any age who read 20 minutes a day by themselves or with a parent. Alex, Kate,and Steve went to a "Japanese Culture" program tonight for teens at the library. They taste foods and explore their culture. That is 2x a month. They love it. I could go on and on, but I will stop now and go to bed. (: The kids need to be to the Cooking Camp by 9 am and it is almost 1am. Johnny, Adam and I are going to the kids movie tomorrow. They have $1 movies at 10am and 12noon for kids Tue, Wed, Thur. We will go there while the big kids are gone. Horton Hears a Who is playing. (:
Goodnight!