I woke up this morning and tried to figure out just want to do as a family. We seem to always end up at some sort of mall or shopping center. What could I find that would be fun for the kids and maybe even include a bit of education? You’d think that living in the Baltimore/Washington coridor, we’d never run out of exciting things to do. We just don’t seem to do them. It’s time to (re)discover our area. Well, after a lot of brain drain, I came up with a trip to Port Discovery. Port Discovery is a Children’s Museum in Baltimore MD. At $11.75 per person 2 and older, it’s sort of pricey. In our case, a family of six costs $70.50. So, we decided to take another route and get a yearly membership for $125. The additional $54.50 allows us to visit other Children’s Museum’s that belong to the “Association of Children’s Museums“. This is over 150 children’s museums in the US and Canada. One of the museum’s is located in Annapolis, MD. Jonathan love’s visiting it. There is also another one in Tampa Fl. Between those two, we’ll get our monies worth.

Today’s outing was a lot of fun for the whole family. Thumbs up rating for this one.

After having Netflix for over a year, I finally dropped it.  In that time, three movies that were returned never made it back to NetFlix.  The second problem was we’re just not watching them nightly.  I.E. I’d get a movie in the mail and it would sit for a week before we’d get around to watching it.

Roll the clock forward and I’ve decided to try out the RedBox.  It’s $1 per movie per night.  That said, I was paying almost $20 to NetFlix to have 3 movies out at a time.  I don’t think that in any month we received 15 movies so it seems that the RedBox solution is cheaper.  NetFlix has a huge selection of movies.  RedBox is very limited to very current films (maybe 100 or so).  I’m going to guess that a hybrid solution, I.E. getting a limited NetFlix like plan for say $5 per month allowing for one movie out at a time and use RedBox is the right mix.

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