What You Need to Know About Visiting the Zoo with Your Family This Covid Summer It’s been a long time since I wrangled the kids on a legitimate Family Field Trip — Covid has sure put a damper on our adventures of the past. I truly can’t imagine when I’ll feel ready to venture back …
With so many pools, beaches, and splash pads closed or complicated due to Covid social distancing requirements, the only way to beat the heat, it seems, is to take it back to nature in a way that I never thought I’d be comfortable with. Yeah, if you would have told me last year I’d be …
Forest Preserves Are Still Open and They’re Saving Our Sanity If you’ve been following awhile, you know I usually publish my Family Field Trip series posts on Friday, to give you ideas for the weekend ahead. But in COVID reality, the weekends just bleed into the weekdays and back again. Is a Saturday all that …
Move over, pumpkin patches and haunted houses. There’s a new Halloween experience in town, and it’s LIT. OK, sorry. Bad puns aside, if your family are fans of Morton Arboretum’s Illuminations or Brookfield Zoo Lights, this Halloween lights spectacular is worth checking out. A cool evening with that unmistakable crispness in the air will have …
