Hitting the spray park with your kids, rocking the Dockers and Blackberry holster, tearing up during Toy Story 3 and tending the hydrangeas are totally gangsta.
Was your first thought, “Where’s a ‘splishy-splashy’ I can hit with the kids today?” You’re a mom or dad after my own heart.
Here are the places I checked out a while back in “A Hot Time to Get Soaked” in the Post. A ** indicates places we have re-hit this year and I still give two thumbs up.
And you KNOW I’d love to take the time to post the deets and link to a ton of more fun stuff going off in the area this weekend, but I got shiz to do. I gotta put a cap in those dust bunnies and shopvac the Goldfish from the Odyssey. Then I be rolling to the G to pick up Capri Suns, hot dogs (nitrate-free, natch) and extra Goodnites for my homies. Because being a mom is pretty sick too.
And there’s also a very cool Special Opening Night Ticket Offer:
Buy limited balcony tickets for just $15 per person for the opening night of either play and receive access to backstage tours and a post-show reception with the actors!
Call the Box Office at 301-280-1660 to reserve tickets for the opening night package of How I Became a Pirate on Saturday, June 26, 7:00 pm and the opening night package of Pirates! A Boy at Sea on Saturday July 10 at 7pm.
Here’s info on other times to catch the two plays this summer:
How I Became a Pirate(ages 3+)
Aye, aye mateys! It’s a musical pirate adventure with a giddy, goofy spirit. Based on the book by Melinda Long, illustrations by David Shannon.
June 23-August 14, 2010
In the Lerner Family Theatre
Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 & 4:00
Tuesday-Friday at 10:30
Sign Interpreted performance July 18, 2010 at 4:00
Special Opening Night Balcony Tickets now Available June 26th at 7:00
See it here first! An Imagination Stage premiere pirate drama especially for older children.
July 2-August 8, 2010
In the Lerner Family Theatre
Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 & 4:00
Tuesday-Friday at 10:30
Sign Interpreted performance July 25, 2010 at 4:00
Montgomery County Heritage Days are a great weekend activity for both the kids and the grown up History Channel fanatic in your family. Music, kids’ activities, food – and history too! There are over 40 sites throughout the County that are free to to the public.
Heritage Days events that look especially family-friendly:
Sandy Spring Museum – Saturday and Sunday. Story reading by children’s author Mary Hogan and The Little Gym of Olney will have special program on Saturday to lead audiences in an exercise routine based on chores that kids did on the farm. 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring
Calleva Farm – Saturday only. Farm animals, free horse rides, group field games, pick your veggies and other farm-y fun.
19120 Martinsburg Road, Dickerson
Glen Echo Park-Saturday and Sunday. Kids can make crafts, ride the carousel, learn circle dances for children on Saturday 1-2pm. 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo
Agricultural History Farm Park – Saturday only. Take guided tours of the turn-of-the-century 455-acre historic farmstead. Enjoy historic farming demonstrations and old-fashioned games for all. 18400 Muncaster Road, Derwood
Oakley Cabin – Saturday and Sunday. Demonstrations of 19th century crafts, musical performances, and tours of the historic cabin that was been home to both slaves and African American free families. Hands-on activities for children and musical entertainment for the family.This African American historic site, built in the 1820s to house enslaved people, was later part of a roadside community. There will be Special Event on Saturday at 2:00 PM: Historical Theater Production’s Mother Wit performed by Colonial Williamsburg living history interpreters. 3610 Brookeville Road, Brookeville
King Barn Dairy MOOseum – Saturday and Sunday. Family activities include crafts, hands-on demonstrations, MOOsic, videos and dairy artifacts and joining the Washington Revels in a comMOOnity singalong. I just cut and pasted those puns. 18028 Central Park Circle, Germantown.
Still searching for something special to do on Father’s Day? Then head to KidzRock at The Rooftop today from 4-6pm for a fun family party that will honor Dad AND entertain the kids.
Rocknoceros will hit the stage, there’ll be a DJ spinning family-friendly hits and with Buffalo Wild Wings as an event sponsor, I’m thinking that there HAVE to be wings for noshing at the event (but I’m still waiting for absolute confirmation on that).
Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door and proceeds benefit Rockville’s Recreation and Parks Foundation.
Moms adore Steve Carell ... even when he's evil, bald and animated.
UPDATE: All tickets have been distributed.
DESPICABLE ME is rated PG and features the voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, that teen chick from iCarly and Fräulein Maria herself, Julie Andrews. Here’s my bastardization of the official Despicable Me film boilerplate. I hope the studios don’t mind:
In a happy suburban neighborhood sits a black house surrounded by an army of funny little yellow guys developed especially for marketing toys. In the house wicked Gru (Steve Carell) is evilly planning to take over the world. He’s bad to the bone.
Until the day he encounters three orphaned little girls who look at him and see something else: Daddy!
Is the world’s greatest super villain any match for the pink polka-dotted wills of Margo, Edith and Agnes?
Will he survive the ballet class carpool?
Wrangling tangled hair into pigtails?
Changing Barbie’s evening gowns?
Slapping together PB&J?
Throw on your Buddy Holly 3D glasses and see for yourself!
If you did not receive an email reply from me with your pass attached, the tickets are gone
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