Summer

Field Trip: Woodland Mound Park and Caesar Creek State Park

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This weekend we visited two other parks in our must-visit list: Woodland Mound and Caesar Creek State Park.  Woodland Mound Woodland Mound was AWESOME.  This park has got to be in my top 3 list of my favorite Cincinnati parks.  First of all it has a really cool visitor center that has a lot of information

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Trip to Miami Whitewater Park

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I continue to be amazed at Cincinnati’s series of parks!  Seriously, they are awesome!.  This time we visited Miami Whitewater, a very large park, which included a medium-size lake, a splash pad and playground.  People can rent paddle boats and even stand-up paddle boards!   There were some small motor water vehicles there but not

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Field Trip: Behringer-Crawford Museum

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On a weekend, Dennis and I decided to take our boys to the Behringer-Crawford museum in Covington, KY. The museum discusses the Greater Cincinnati history and has four floors with different areas of focus (rail, industry, rivers, immigrants and tourism). One of the things that attracted me to the museum was the fact that they

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Camping at Stonelick Park

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Since we had such a great time camping at Lake Kincaid a couple of weeks back, we decided to take advantage of the summer time we have left by going camping again. Before Lake Kincaid, we had come from a long camping hiatus because our last camping experience, while fun, was exhausting. We took SO

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Glenwood Gardens & Highfield Discovery Garden

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As part of my “see all the large Cincinnati parks” tour, we decided to visit Glenwood Gardens & Discovery Center. The gardens, while more than 30 minutes from us, were well worth the drive. It is probably the most beautiful and picturesque park we have visited so far. The boys and I went on a hike where

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