The 2nd Annual event for San Diego Museum Council: Kids Free in October is nearly here! San Diego Museum Council invites kids to explore San Diego's diverse museums for Free! From October 1–31, 36 museums will offer free admissions to kids 12 and under with a paid adult this October 2012 in San Diego County.
To participate, families must download a coupon available on the SDMC website www.sandiegomuseumcouncil.org and present it at participating museums to receive the offer.
(The offer is limited to two children per paid adult admission ticket and does not include special events/exhibits or field trips.)
Research from the American Association of Museums points to the important role museums play in a child’s education, making back-to-school season an ideal time for the Kids Free in October campaign. The event also helps families bridge the education gap left by recent budget cutbacks to school field trips. Here in San Diego, we have so many different museums, I hope that you'll get to have a family outing to go exploring.
Here is a list of 36 Kids Free in October participating museums:
Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, California Surf Museum, Coronado Museum of History & Art, Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, Gaslamp Museum at William H. Davis House, Heritage of the Americas Museum, Japanese Friendship Garden, La Jolla Historical Society, Living Coast Discovery Center, Lux Art Institute, Marston House Museum & Gardens, Mingei International Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Making Music, Museum of Photographic Arts, Oceanside Museum of Art, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (gallery only), San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego Archaeological Center, San Diego Automotive Museum, San Diego Botanic Garden, San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum, San Diego History Center, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Man, The NAT (San Diego Natural History Museum), The New Children’s Museum, Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center, Timken Museum of Art, USS Midway Museum, Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Visions Art Museum, Water Conservation Garden, Women’s Museum of California.
*Also if you're heading that way, the San Diego Children's Discovery Museum is hosting a Family Pumpkin Patch and Fall Festival. An event full of family fun with a pumpkin patch, photos, live mnusic and more starting September 22 to November 4th every Saturday.
San Diego Children's Discovery Museum
http://sdcdm.org/
320 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025
I have a huge ONE WEEK LONG giveaway for local San Diego/So Ca peeps! I have four sets of passes to four different museums who are participating in this event. Each pass is free admission for one and if you visit in October, be sure print out the free child coupon offer above and maybe bring a friend or two along with your winning passes!
We'll be heading out to explore the USS Midway very soon and we're excited! My oldest Brother was on this ship with the Navy back in the day. I'll be posting pics to my Instagram and Twitter so be sure to follow along!
Follow along with San Diego Museum Council on Twitter and Facebook!
I will let Rafflecopter choose my winners, the four winners chosen in order will win:
Guest Pass #1: four passes to The New Children's Museum:
The New Children's Museum
200 West Island Avenue
San Diego, California 92101
619-233-8792
thinkplaycreate.org
Guest Pass #2: four passes to Heritage of the Americas Museum:
Heritage of the Americas Museum
12110 Cuyamaca College Drive West
El Cajon, CA 92019
619-670-5194
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/museum/
Guest Pass #3: four passes to Mingei International Museum:
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado
San Diego CA 92101
619-239-0003
http://www.mingei.org/
Guest Pass #4: four passes to The San Diego Air & Space Museum:
The San Diego Air & Space Museum
2001 Pan American PlazaSan Diego, CA 92101
619-234-8291
http://sandiegoairandspace.org/
a Rafflecopter giveaway
*Disclosure* I wrote this review for "Mommy? I'm Hungry!" about San Diego Museum Council. The product(s) in this review were provided to me free of cost for the purpose of conducting my review. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and are not influenced by monetary compensation. Product info & stock images provided by PR or Co.
These are the cutest containers ever! No wonder they won an award for that. We all had a nice after school treat when these arrived at our door. Of course we tried a scoop of each (ok I only tried three flavors). My fave was the Sneaky Pash, of wildberry and chocolate flakes. My oldest loves mango but I think her fave was the Naughty honeycomb and caramel chunks. My youngest ones just liked them all, lol. Anyway, these were really good, and as a now healthier nut that I am, I liked that these are guilt free.
I don't know if you can clearly see the list: The Naughty Pash, Honeycomb & Caramel Chunks says under the allergens that it may contain traces of egg, wheat and soy. As a Celiac you can not trust that that it is 100% GF. Any little bit of wheat/soy gluten trace/cross contamination will affect you. Here let me zoom in:
I was a little curious as to what my kids would think of these. SO, I sort of didn't tell them exactly what flavors there were. Though they love broccoli and sweet potatoes I wanted to see if they'd be able to taste it. Guess they had no clue! Since I wasn't able to taste these (they have wheat in them) I did smell them and boy do those Lemon Broccoli snacks smell like a lemon cooler cookie! The Sweet Potato Oatmeal Raisin snacks were like a spice cookie. They loved them!
{gluten free} Shrimp Pad Thai from Cooking Light, page 189.
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In this book, Kathleen offers her tips for saving time in the kitchen, such as toasting nuts the day before, make and freeze the streusel ahead of time. Rolled out pie dough can be frozen right in the pie dish (and chilled dough bakes better too! I may do this tip for the Holidays). For my recipe review of this Baking with Friends, I made my family her Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and later turned them into Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiched Cookies. They loved them! 
These cookies have a soft cake like texture. 
I will be honest, my expectations for the wings were pretty low. I haven't had wings from a franchise pizza joint that I have really liked. To my surprise the wings were actually pretty good. The sauce was thick and in abundance. The wings were nether too sweet, or too hot, but were balanced very well. There was just enough heat to get my nose running after a few wings, but not enough to cause my mouth to be on fire. The ranch dressing dipping sauce had a nice zip to it that complimented the wings very nicely.