Family Fun in SoCal
September 10th, 2009, 11:11 am · Post a Comment · posted by ewingert
We lived in the same area for the bulk of thirty-five years and regretfully only scraped the surface of what the area had to offer for fun out of shear laziness. Living in Southern California now we’re determined not to make the same mistake. You know the one; there are all these things to do, see and visit but you put them off thinking, “Eh. Maybe some other time.”
But where to go, what to do and how to choose?! Those answers came when I spotted the book Fun (and educational) Places to go with Kids (and adults) in Southern California. This nearly 800 page book has hundreds of hotspots broken down by a variety of categories such as Amusement Parks, Beaches, Museums, and Piers and Seaports, with lots of cheap options! The long list spans through Southern California counties from San Diego up to Santa Barbara and over to San Bernardino.
Not only does this family fun field guide offer up destinations even a lifetime resident of SoCal has never heard of, it also has an at-a-glance symbol guide from “!” which means FREE! to $$$$$ equals “over $40″. And a “Never Leave Home Without These Essentials” list, my personal favorite is #16, A sense of humor!
Flashback five years, just after we moved here, we jumped in the car and headed down to Dana Point, believing in the almighty MapQuest that it would take a mere hour and a half. (HA!) It was Friday night around the holidays and it took nearly 4 hours. That day we learned never to leave the house without packing a small cooler, back-up entertainment for J.T. and if space permitted some form of port-a-john. If we’d had this book then, we’d have been much better prepared, minus the port-a-john.
