Free Museums on Tuesdays

I was asked to do a review on a wonderful program.

Here in San Diego, Ca, We have The beautiful and Historic Balboa Park.

It is such a beautiful Park, has a wide variety of Museums and restaurants. 
The architecture of those buildings is just absolutely amazing, my 9 year old daughter loves to go and look at the buildings.

There are many events that go on in Balboa Park, but Tuesdays is an event all on it's own.

Every Tuesday there is a different list of Museums that are admission free for San Diego residents and Military Families.  It's called Residen't Free Tuesdays.

Since the kids are still on vacation, and mommy needed a break, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity for a Family Adventure.  

Since on the 1st we went to The Ruben H. Fleet Science Center  I thought we would go to a different one today. 

We went to The San Diego Natural History Museum.   They have an exhibit called "Fossil Mysteries"  ALL of the kids loved it, they went all over the 5 floors and even were amazed with the photograph exhibits that were taking place. 

I encourage everyone to visit This beautiful park, The museums and all of the outside activities that go one, especially on weekends.
If you love photography, this is a definite place to go.  A hidden treasure near downtown.

Our visit to The Ruben H. Science Center...

What a wonderful way to start The New Year...

On January 1, 2010, our family was invited to an awesome event held at The Ruben H. Fleet science Center.
It was to show case their new exhibit called "Block Busters"  The museum was opened to invited guests only, and we were treated to a breakfast that the kids called "super cool!"; since there was a wide selection of donuts and juice, my kids favorite in the mornings ;)

We ALL got to play in the exhibit area where they have over 15,000 wooden Keva (Knowledge – Exploration – Visual Arts) planks.  These planks are laser cut, and and measures 1/4 inch thick, 3/4 inch wide and 4 1/2 inches long.  We learned that these planks are precision cut and are all exact size, designed to build limitless things with.

We walked into the exhibition area and saw many children and adults playing with the KEVA planks, in addition there was a special surprise.  Joe Lizurra from KUSI news was doing his broadcasts live from there, and also was building his own tower.  My kids went straight to building, and so did my husband.  I was too busy taking pictures, but soon was drawn to the KEVA planks, myself, lol.

During Joe's last broadcast, he let the kids destroy his 5 foot building.  Of course all of the kids loved it.  After his broadcast, my son Izeah borrowed Joe for a few different things ;)









In the exhibit it says that destroying your designs if half the fun, my children will agree..

I want you to share the fun of these KEVA planks yourself.  I am going to give a way 4 tickets to The Ruben H. Fleet Center, so you can experience The Block Buster exhibit yourself .

Have fun, be a child, I promise it's a lot of fun, and you learn a lot of fun facts as well.  Visit their awesome IMAX movie theater, see the many exhibits they have available, after your visit, stop by their gift shop, they have "austronaut ice cream" and you can also purchase your own set of KEVA planks for yourself ;)

At The Ruben H. Fleet Center, you have to purchase separately your IMAX movie ticket, but The 2 tickets I am giving away, have the IMAX movie ticket included ;)

To Enter:
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Remember, leave me a comment with every entry you earn and the link to the activity.  I will contact the winner by email, so I can mail you the tickets.  Good luck!!!
This give a way will run until Jan. 12, 2010


I received tickets to the Science center for my family on a future visit in exchange for my review.