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Last weekend we took our two eleven year olds and four year old boys to Day Out With Thomas at Heritage Park in Calgary, AB. It was a really nice afternoon, we all enjoyed ourselves very much. Day Out With Thomas includes storytelling, tattoos and face painting, crafts, musical entertainment and model train displays. Not to mention the giant Thomas store, photos with Sir Topham Hat, and of course, the best part, the ride on a train pulled by Thomas himself. Heritage Park is a wonderful setting, and added to the afternoon with food and drinks, wooden mazes, carousel and mini-ferris wheel, candy and ice cream shops, and my personal favourite, the bakery. There was a bit of a treasure hunt, the kids collected stamps at each station, and handed in their completed sheet for a prize. The prize wasn't great, but the game kept the older boys entertained. The Little One loved it all, even though he said he didn't want to go see Thomas in the first place. The highliht for him? The new train he brought home from the Thomas store.

Here are the photos...

We are having fun with these videos made from still photos. This one is from our trip to New York City without the kids.

We are packing up our family of five, and heading to Florida next week, where we will hit the new Legoland, Kennedy Space Centre and Daytona International Speedway. We are not planning on visiting Disney or Universal this trip, because we have been to Florida so many times, and we are looking for soemthing new to experience. Enter Lonely Planet, one of my favourite travel resources. And they have a video to fill in our Travel Video of the Week! Bonus!

It's the time of the year when thoughts turn to skiiing, at least for some poeple. Although our family has not spent much time on the slopes so far, we are partial to a trip to the mountains, and as long as the roads are clear and the temperatures mild, we will make that trip in Winter just as happily as Summer. The great thing about Banff is that your family can have a great time, skiing or not.

Here is the KinderJet video of the week.

Why travel to the frozen North of Canada in the middle of Winter, you ask? There is something about Northern communities, particularly in the Winter, that you won't experience anywhere else at any other time. There is a shared experience, a friendly understanding, a way of coping with the extreme conditions that makes a visit to the North in the Winter warmer than you would expect. It is an adventure that you can tell your friends about. Still, the weather is pretty darn cold!

Here is the KinderJet Channel Feature Video of the Week.

We took our older boys to Las Vegas when they were almost four years old. There's not tons for families in Vegas, but we still managed to find a bit of fun for the kids.