Countdown to Christmas: lots of opportunities to watch The Polar Express in and around Louisville. View holiday classic with your kids at the pool, the zoo, or recreate experience on a train ride.
Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center in Crescent Hill hosts a "dive-in" November 13, December 27, and January 3. Bring your swimsuit, towel, and float for summertime fun in the indoor pool!
Cool contest! Kids create their own ice cream flavor for Comfy Cow. The winner gets free ice cream for a year, tickets to KaLightoscope at Galt House, and bragging rights. Entries due November 15.
Walk, bike, or trolley hop down Bardstown Road this Saturday during BooFest. Special deals at shops, restaurants, and bars, costumes, and trick-or-treating, too!
There's an educational and entertaining family event this weekend that doesn't involve pumpkins or ghosts: the 18th Century Market Fair at historic Locust Grove.
Bring your storybook princesses and pirates, monsters and animals to the Main Library on Friday, October 19 at 6:00pm for free family-friendly storybook Halloween event.
You name it! Silvester wins the Zoo's baby giraffe naming contest. There's still time to see him during The World's Largest Halloween Party (Oct. 18-21 and 25-28, 5-8:30 pm).
Sacred Heart School for the Arts presents a family favorite Oct. 25-Nov.3: "The Sound of Music." "I Have Confidence" that you will count this musical as one of "My Favorite Things," whether you are "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" or not. I couldn't fit "Do-Re-Mi" in there, but you get the picture.
Have you ever taken your kids to the American Printing House for the Blind? Free Saturday workshops and tours will help kids "see" Braille and codes in a new way.
You've still got a couple of weekends left to take the family out to a farm to pick pumpkins and run through a corn maze. If you haven't been to Lanesville, Indiana's Deere Farms yet, it might be worth the thirty-minute drive.
With two great festivals in one great neighborhood, there's no excuse not to visit the Highlands this weekend. Check out the Belknap Fall Festival at Douglass Loop on Friday and Saturday and Farmington Harvest Festival on Sunday.
It's never too early to check a gift off your holiday list. It's even better when your kids get to be creative and the final product is functional and attractive. And it's even BETTER when you're not at the mall in December.
