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Looking for activities that the kids will really enjoy in New York? There are many of fun things to do just spending the day in Central Park. There is always a trip to FAO Schwarz for a chance to play with some great toys. There are plenty of zoos and museums that they will enjoy. However, there are some special events for kids to be apart of.  

The Children’s Museum of Manhattan is a great place to go and explore with the kids. This is a great interactive museum where the kids get a chance to not just see things happen but to make things happen. Their imaginations are ignited by touching and moving many of the exhibits themselves. The museum focuses on lots of different cultures to be shared by many different kinds of people from all over the world. Kids will not only interact with the exhibits they will play and interact with each other. They offer many classes of experience and learning for the young and the old. They host many artists of all mediums to interact and teach. They encourage mingling with kids from around the world in the comfort of some of their favorite characters like Dora and Diego.  

Take a little trip away from the NY hotel and head to Brooklyn for chance to see a childhood classic performed by puppets at The Puppetworks theatre. Jack and the Bean Stock, Beauty and the Beast and Little Red Riding hood are just a few of the wonderful shows put on by really talented puppeteers. Though the store front of this theatre is small and quaint the history of this company is deep and rich. It was created by Nicolas Coppola who started puppeteering at a young age got his first chance to perform in 1954 at the age of 19. He went on to perform routines for injured troops at the army hospital. Coppola ended up becoming the head of his favorite puppet company the Suzari Marionettes which eventually became Nicolo Marionettes and then Puppetworks. The whole city of New York embraced his talents and it lives on today .

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If you’re a first time visitor to Boston, Massachusetts, orange and green might become your new favorite colors. Trolleys painted in this color are a part of the Old Town Trolley Tours, which will provide you with a hundred minute overview of this 380 year old city, offering a first look at Paul Revere House, the Old State House Museum, the USS Constitution, the New England Aquarium, Fenway Park (where the Boston Red Sox play), just to name a few of the sights.

The Old Town Trolley Tours have been in operation for more than thirty years, and conductors/tour guides will orient you to the major attractions of the city while allowing you to climb aboard or depart to explore on your own throughout the day. For instance, you’ll be able to stop at the Paul Revere House , and examine one of the oldest homes in Boston.

Built around 1680, only 50 years after the city was founded, the home stands as an example of early colonial American architecture. This structure replaced a parsonage of the Second Church of Boston, which was once the home of ministers Increase Mather and his son, Cotton Mather. The parsonage was burned in the Great Fire of 1676. Four years later, silversmith Paul Revere’s house was built.

If you like, you’ll be able to come back to the Paul Revere house because you’re allowed to ride the next day on the trolley for free. In the Spring, Summer and Fall, there is also an added incentive to use the Old Town Trolley’s, and that’s a free Boston Harbor Cruise.

Knowledgeable and entertaining guides, a free harbor cruise, free next-day rides as well as free admission to the Old State House Museum make this an attractive offer. The trolleys also have a pick-up service, so the tours may be accessible from most hotel rooms which you may find by simply checking out this site .

Considering all that you receive, the pricing is quite reasonable — 36 dollars for adults; 33 dollars for seniors, students and military; 13 dollars for children between the ages of 3 and 12; free for children under three. If the tickets are purchased on line, it’s possible to save even more — 32.40 for adults; 29.79 for seniors, students, and military; and just 11.70 for children between the ages of 2 and 12.

To get a proper historic overview of Boston, look out for the orange and green trolleys or simply find your way to the Old Town Trolley Tours site .

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The Don Harrington Discovery Center located in Amarillo Texas is the perfect mix of education and entertainment. Both children and adults will enjoy a day out at the Don Harrington Discovery Center and leave with more knowledge than they had upon entering the Discovery Center.

The Discovery Center has recently been under construction and has renovated most of its 25,000 square feet of exhibit space to include permanent exhibits like Amazing Bodies, Planetary Landscapes, the Bubbles exhibit, and much more. The Discovery Center is also looking to continue the renovations and further build towards the future with new permanent exhibits including the Hunters of the Sky, which is an in depth look at the cultural and natural history of birds of prey, and Bounce, which is everything about those round balls that intrigue people and leave us in awe and amazement.

The Space Theater is a digital planetarium that supplies visitors with an out of the planet trip to the surrounding galaxies in the solar system and to the depths of deep space. The highly flexible digital planetarium takes visitors on a thrilling ride from Mars to the edge of a black hole in a matter of seconds while a trip of that magnitude and distance is real life would take years.

In addition to the new exhibits there is a 100-seat multimedia auditorium and 3,000 square foot multipurpose room that are available to be rented out by anyone for receptions, banquets and parties. For anyone who may be visiting Amarillo Texas, it would be a good investment to choose a hotel from the list of good one’s in the area and stay for a few days . The Don Harrington Discovery Center could very well be a two day trip in itself being as how there are so many exhibits and so much to see, learn, and experience. Going for only one day would be a challenge.

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