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Free/Inexpensive Activities for Kids
My BIL & SIL are contemplating coming to visit us with their 3 kids next month (ages 5, 3, 1). They don't have a lot of money to spend on things like theme parks, etc. so I'm trying to brainstorm a list of things they could do that wouldn't cost a lot of money. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Me: 35 DH: 37 TTC since 4/2010
DX: 6/9/2011: Azoo ICSI/IVF only option for biological child
IVF #1: ER - 9/26 * ET - 10/1 * beta#1 10/13 - 140 * beta#2 10/17 - 477 * beta#3 10/20 - 1101
1st u/s at 6w6d - one hb * 2nd u/s at 8w3d - no hb detected 11/10/11 * natural m/c 11/13/11
FET #1 Jan/Feb 2012 - 3 delays - cancelled 2/13
FET #1.2 - May/June 2012 - ET 6/6/* beta#1 6/15 - 95 * beta #2 6/19 - 322 * beta #3 6/22 - 940
7/6 1st u/s @ 7 weeks - one beautiful hb - released from RE
EDD 2/22/2013
PAIF/SAIF/PGAL welcome
DX: 6/9/2011: Azoo ICSI/IVF only option for biological child
IVF #1: ER - 9/26 * ET - 10/1 * beta#1 10/13 - 140 * beta#2 10/17 - 477 * beta#3 10/20 - 1101
1st u/s at 6w6d - one hb * 2nd u/s at 8w3d - no hb detected 11/10/11 * natural m/c 11/13/11
FET #1 Jan/Feb 2012 - 3 delays - cancelled 2/13
FET #1.2 - May/June 2012 - ET 6/6/* beta#1 6/15 - 95 * beta #2 6/19 - 322 * beta #3 6/22 - 940
7/6 1st u/s @ 7 weeks - one beautiful hb - released from RE
EDD 2/22/2013
PAIF/SAIF/PGAL welcome
Re: Free/Inexpensive Activities for Kids
The beach, a spraygound, a park or a bounce indoor playplace. Groupon is always having coupons for those. I like the pirate cruise in Clearwater or the Clearwater aquarium.
That's all I can think of right now. The 1 and 3y/o will get in free most places.
DX: 6/9/2011: Azoo ICSI/IVF only option for biological child
IVF #1: ER - 9/26 * ET - 10/1 * beta#1 10/13 - 140 * beta#2 10/17 - 477 * beta#3 10/20 - 1101
1st u/s at 6w6d - one hb * 2nd u/s at 8w3d - no hb detected 11/10/11 * natural m/c 11/13/11
FET #1 Jan/Feb 2012 - 3 delays - cancelled 2/13
FET #1.2 - May/June 2012 - ET 6/6/* beta#1 6/15 - 95 * beta #2 6/19 - 322 * beta #3 6/22 - 940
7/6 1st u/s @ 7 weeks - one beautiful hb - released from RE
EDD 2/22/2013
PAIF/SAIF/PGAL welcome
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-Largo Central Park - this is a great free place to take the kids, lots to do there, and they recently renovated the park so the play area is amazing (and has astro-turf instead of sand, woohoo!)
-Great Explorations or the Glazer Children's Museum could be tons of fun, but I would keep an eye out for coupons since the price can add up!
-Free spraygrounds in Tampa (Curtis Hixon I think it's called?), Dell Holmes in St. Pete, and there's also one in Oldsmar
- Lithia Springs state park - I am dying to take my kids here. It's a freshwater spring (so the water is gorgeous, caribbean-color blue and only 72 degrees year round!) and has a beach-area. A friend showed me pics and I can't wait to go. A car with 8 people is only $2, and I think it's just $1 or $2 to swim.
~L~
Mommy to 2 boys, ages 7 and 5 and a little girl who is 1.5
A lot of movie theaters offer cheap kids movies on weekday mornings over the summer so for a rainy or really hot day that is always a good standby
My BFF took her daughter to some water park place in Dunedin this weekend. She said it was free and her 3 1/2 year old loved it.
Dino World is a fun place, I took my 2nd graders on field trips there.
And I think every movie theater does the free (or $1 or $2) movies over the Summer.
A lot of bowling allies have super cheap family bowling over the Summer as well.