‘Aquariums/Parks/Zoos’ Articles

The first-ever Kids Food Festival will take place on January 21st and 22nd at Citi Pond in Bryant Park. The festival’s mission is to fight childhood obesity through fun and flavorful activities around balanced food choices. The Kids Food Festival gets cooking on January 21st and 22nd, 2012, from 10 am to 6pm.  General admission [Continue]

My absolute favorite thing to do almost immediately after Thanksgiving is head out to a Christmas tree farm with my entire crew to cut down our tree. We prefer to cut our own when we can, so it is one of the options we look for when deciding what farm we will visit. We also [Continue]

It’s that time of the year when my favorite NYC parks start showing the holiday spirit and magic! This Saturday, November 12, families, pets included, are invited to Citi Pond at Bryant Park’s Second Annual Family Day Event to celebrate and kick-off the holiday season by enjoying a day full of fun, family-friendly activities! Activities [Continue]

There are tons of really amazing parks in NYC. Washington Square Park, Bryant Park, Carl Shultz Park, Madison Square Park…just to name a few. In this video, I highlight my absolute favorites along the westside on Manhattan. I hope you get to check them out when you come visit! These videos on NYC are for SheStreams [Continue]

After our fun adventures at Chocolate World, the family and I couldn’t wait to visit Hershey Park. I had heard so much about the park from so many different people who have gone, and never once have I heard anyone say anything negative about it, we just needed to go see for ourselves. We went [Continue]

We’re continuing to share our water park adventures in what has been our “Road Trip Weekends“. The second park we’d like to feature is SplashDown Beach in Fishkill, NY.  SplashDown Beach is about an hour and a half drive from NYC. Of all the parks we visited, we consider Splashdown Beach the most manageable with little [Continue]

The family and I have made a promise to enjoy the remaining weekends left of summer as much as we possibly can, and so we have made August the month of  ”Road Trip Weekends“. We have visited at least three different water/amusement parks, and this week I will be sharing our experiences with you. I [Continue]

New York City and the people I meet who love and breath it like I do, never, ever cease to amaze me. I love it. On one perfect Saturday morning, we headed over to Inwood Hill Park, which looked a lot different than it did since our last visit there, and is now showing all [Continue]

We talk so much about NYC being a concrete jungle. So much so that even Alicia Keys sings about it. Truth is, and what most people don’t expect, is that New York City has a lot of green area that we can enjoy. There are truly countless of parks, from small to large, crowded to [Continue]

I have said it once, and I’ll say it again, Disney is a wonderful place for anyone who visits, but for kids it is magical! Thanks to the generous hospitality of Hanes, I was invited to Disney to meet and mingle with the other members of the Comfort Crew. Also invited was my family. This [Continue]