Free Family Boat Ride in Houston

Note: The photos above and below are courtesy of Dreamstime.com and is not an actual picure of the boat you would be riding on.
The Port of Houston offers free boat tours including a free beverage at the Houston Ship Channel.
The vessel, M/V Sam Houston, is available for a 90 minute boat tour Tuesday-Sunday at 10:00 [...]

Blackberry Jam…You-Picks and Farmer’s Markets in Houston

A couple of weeks ago my kids and I visited a you-pick farm and picked blackberries. We picked close to 8 lbs of blackberries. I packed 1/2 of the berries in ziploc bags and froze them with a sprinkle of sugar. The other 1/2 of the berries I turned into jam [...]

LEGO Store Grand Opening In Houston Texas..Pictures

On Friday, my family and I visited the new LEGO store in Friendswood at Baybrook Mall. Lines, lines and more lines. The store is not as big as I hoped. They do have pick-a-brick where you choose a container and stuff it with as many bricks as you can for $7.99 [...]

LEGO Store Grand Opening Today in Houston Texas Baybrook Mall

LEGO Store grand opening today in Houston at Baybrook Mall! 
See the posts below for details or click the Baybrook Mall link to the right.

Free Golf Lessons For Houston Kids…Be A Tiger

The First Tee of Houston   offers free golf lessons for kids aged 7-18 years at 8400 Mykawa Rd, Houston, TX, 77048, 713-264-2100. 
My daughter, Miss Tigerette Woods,  learned to hit a golf ball last summer while attending golf classes at the First Tee of Houston.  
 The First Tee requires registered parents and kids to attend all 6 sessions plus parents must [...]

Free Art For Kids at Houston Museum of Fine Art…Families Stay Cool and Cultured This Summer

The Houston Museum of Fine Arts or http://mfah.org has free admission on Thursdays. Stay cool this summer!
Last summer my kids and I not only got a chance to tour the MFAH for free but we also participated in Creation Station where they made clay animals.
Park behind one of the other museums in the [...]

$1 Kids Movies AMC Summer Movie Camp on Wednesdays at 10:00am

AMC Movie Theatres will be having kids $1 movies on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. All the movies have been released within the last year.
The kids can have a good time and donate to a worthy cause.
All AMC Theaters in the Houston area are participatiing including the Katy Mills Theatre where someone [...]

Coupons For Kids, Toys and Food…Check Out FreckleTown

FreckleTown website
has a bunch of money-saving coupons for the Houston/Katy area along with a long list of kids activities.
Check out the Target Coupon for a $5 discount on a toy purchase of $25 or more.
Click here.

LEGO Store Opening in Houston Texas at Baybrook Mall Grand Opening June 20th-22nd

My daughter built this house.  Two years ago we visited LEGOland in San Diego, Ca and we have become big lego fans at our house.
LEGO Store Grand Opening Celebration at Baybrook Mall, Houston, TX
June 20 – 22, 2008

LEGO Grand Opening Event
On Friday, June 20, the first LEGO store in the state of Texas, and the [...]

Free Kids Tennis Lessons…..At Houston Area Parks

The City of Houston, Texas provides
 free tennis
lessons during the 2008 summer months at various city parks.  My kids took lessons five days a week last summer.  They even provide a tennis raquet.   At the end of the summer there is a city-wide tennis tournament at Memorial Park.
Check out the link below:
 
here or http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/youthtennis