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The Best Places to See Spring Flowers in Cincinnati

March 23, 2022 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

Spring is such a beautiful time in Cincinnati. You’ll find that the trees and flowers are in different stages of blooming from late March- throughout the month of May.

I’m sharing some of my favorite places to take pictures of flowers in the spring that you will want to add to your list.

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Filed Under: Adventures, Adventures With Friends, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures, Featured, On A Date Adventures, Outdoor Adventure Tagged With: bloom, blooming, Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, Eden Park, flowers, Krohn Conservatory, Smale Park, spring, Spring Grove Cemetery, trees, Tunes and Blooms

How to Save Money on Festival of Lights Admission

December 2, 2021 By Nedra McDaniel 6 Comments

Festival of Lights is one of our annual holiday traditions each holiday season at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

There is something for the whole family to enjoy as the zoo is transformed into a winter wonderland. Each year there are new displays to see, holiday lights, Christmas music, and zoo animal shaped lanterns that guests look forward to each year.

I’m sharing ways for you to save money on your next visit Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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Filed Under: Adventures With Friends, Cincinnati/ NKY Holiday, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures, Featured, Food Adventures, Giveaways, Restaurants Tagged With: Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, Festival of Lights, giveaway, Skyline Chili

Kanga Klimb Aerial Adventure Course at Cincinnati Zoo

June 6, 2021 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

The Cincinnati Zoo has added a new aerial adventure course that is fun for both adults and kids.

I’m sharing tips for how to make the most of your time on Kanga Klimb.

Kanga Klimb at the Cincinnati Zoo
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Filed Under: Adventures, Adventures With Friends, Cincy/NKY Area, Extreme Adventures, Family Adventures, Featured, Fitness Fun, Outdoor Adventure, Travel Tagged With: aerial adventure course, Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, Kanga Klimb, outdoor adventure, zoo

Best New Year’s Eve Events for Families Around Cincinnati

December 19, 2020 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

Looking for ideas for New Year’s Eve that are family-friendly?

I’m sharing the BEST NYE options for families around Cincinnati. 

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Filed Under: Adventures, Adventures With Friends, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures Tagged With: Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, family friendly, Festival of Lights, Fountain Square, Kings Island Amusement Park, New Year's Eve, Newport Aquarium, NYE, Ohio, Winterfest

5 Reasons to Visit the Cincinnati Zoo in the Winter

January 20, 2020 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

Just because the weather is colder during the winter months doesn’t mean that you won’t find plenty to do at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

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Filed Under: Featured, Adventures with Animals, Cincy/NKY Area, Travel Tagged With: Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, Ohio, penguin, Penguin parade, winter

Unique Adventures with Animals in the Midwest

April 20, 2019 By Nedra McDaniel 5 Comments

I’ve been fortunate to experience lots of incredible ethical animal encounters in the Midwest. I’m sharing a few of my favorites that are perfect for animal lovers of all ages.

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Filed Under: Featured, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: animal adventure, animal encounter, behind the scenes tour, cincinnati zoo, overnight, The wilds, Wolf Creek Habitat and Rescue

A Unique Adventure at the Family Twiga Overnight Camp

August 2, 2018 By Nedra McDaniel 5 Comments

A Unique Adventure at the Family Twiga Overnight Camp

I LOVE to experience unique overnights.

Overnight in a Treehouse. Check. Museum. Check. Submarine. Check. Aquarium. Check. Tepee. Check. Kings Island Amusement Park. Check.

…..so when I found out that the Cincinnati Zoo offered family overnights where you can sleep in African Safari style tents near the giraffe area, I had to check it out!

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Filed Under: Adventures, Adventures with Animals, Adventures With Friends, Animal Encounters, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures, Featured, Outdoor Adventure, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: animal encounter, cincinnati zoo, family overnight, twiga

Top Family Friendly Attractions in the Cincinnati Metro

February 1, 2016 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

 

Top Family Friendly Attractions in the Cincinnati Metro

When you visit the Cincinnati Metro area, there is so much for families to see and do.

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Filed Under: Adventures with Animals, Adventures With Friends, Amusement/ Theme Parks, Children's Museums, Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Tours, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures, Featured, Museums, Outdoor Adventure, Tours you can take, Travel Tagged With: Cincinnati Museum Center, cincinnati zoo, Earth Joy Tree Adventures, Newport Aquarium, Reds Hall of Fame

Tunes & Blooms at the Cincinnati Zoo

April 19, 2013 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

Tonight we went to Tunes & Blooms for the first time as a family.

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Filed Under: Family Adventures, Adventures With Friends, Cincy/NKY Area, On A Date Adventures, Solo Adventures, Special Event/ Exhibits Tagged With: Cincinnati, cincinnati zoo, Ohio, Tunes & Blooms

Fun with friends at the Cincinnati Zoo

September 1, 2011 By Nedra McDaniel Leave a Comment

As we were exiting the zoo entrance we watched our kids climb all over the rhino statues. My friend and I joked that why should kids be the only ones who get their pictures taken on the statues.  We paused for a second and then decided why not?

Recently my friends and I decided to bring our combined 10 kids to the zoo.

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All of our kids are crazy together so we felt we would have no problems fitting in at the zoo.

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“Don’t climb on that “”Don’t jump off of that” “Where is —–?””Don’t touch that” “Did he just eat that off the ground””——— smile for the picture” “Don’t pick the flowers!” were all common phrases during our zoo adventure.

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Our kids were involved in a brief rumble on the playground, one was briefly lost in the zoo toy store and one was caught petting a peacock.

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The tulips were absolutely gorgeous and I wanted to get a picture of the boys and I together with them in the background before we left. So I asked our friend who was the photographer to take the pics on my camera phone while our other two friends “watched” her three kids.

Meantime, while we were waiting for random strangers to get out of our background shot, her son was wondering closer and closer to the peacock eventually touching it.

Our friends who were watching the incident unfold kept on asking, “Whose kids is that?” and then were mortified by the answer “that’s Jack!!!!” Yep, the youngest boy in the bunch was our very own Dr. Doolittle.

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No children or peacocks were harmed in the incident but a few tulips were uprooted due to little boys who like to give flowers to their mamas.

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So as we exited the zoo we had our own MOMS GONE WILD experience as we helped hoist each other up onto the rhino statue. That was a funny site in itself. We even had a 5-month pregnant mom onboard. We created quite a spectacle as a crowd of people with children began watching this unfold. A few spectators even said this looks like moms gone wild.

We got the pictures we wanted together and thankfully the rhino didn’t gave in under our weight and no one’s zoo passes were revoked.

Want to change up your play dates? Check out your local zoo for an adventure https://www.localzoo.net/ or https://cincinnatizoo.org/

Filed Under: Adventures With Friends, Cincy/NKY Area, Family Adventures Tagged With: cincinnati zoo, rhino, statue, zoo

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