HAPPY HOLLOW: ZOO, PUPPETS, SAFARI

W H A T :    Zoo on the Hill | Puppet Theater | Safari Sam
W H E N :    Monday January 17, 2011 | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
W H E R E : Happy Hollow, San Jose

Zoo on the Hill
Animal Meet & Greet | 11:00 am & 3:00 pm

Puppet Theater
The Elephant’s Child | 12:00 pm
Rumpelstiltskin | 3:00 pm

Safari Sam
Story Book Lunchtime | 11:30 am
Scavenger Hunt | 2:30 pm

FEASTS FOR THE BEASTS

W H A T :    Thanksgiving Feasts for the Beasts
W H E N :    Saturday, November 27 and Sunday, November 28
W H E R E : SF ZOO (map)

M O R E : FEAST SCHEDULE

• Grizzly Bears: 11:00 a.m.
• Chimpanzees: 12:00 p.m.
• African Savanna Aviary: 1:30 p.m.
• Meerkats: 2:30 p.m.
• Conservation Corner: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

CHINESE ITINERARIES: TIGER IN THE ZOO

W H A T :  Annual Lunar New Year Celebration
W H E N :  February 21, 10AM-3PM
W H E R E : San Francisco Zoo

M O R E : Guests born in the Year of the Tiger Receive Free Admission

• Red Panda Acrobats
• Chung Ngai Dance Troupe

Zoo visitors can also take a self-guided Zodiac tour through the Zoo. This fun-filled scavenger hunt adventure will lead guests to the animals found on the Chinese calendar. Plus, everyone who completes the Zodiac tour will receive a lucky red envelope with a surprise inside, courtesy of East West Bank. Lastly, the day wouldn’t be complete without a visit to see the Zoo’s beloved tigers – Padang, Leanne and Tony.

HERITAGE ITINERARY: Palo Alto

This itinerary started from a repeated visit at the Museum of American Heritage, so here are some kid friendly places intertwined with historic and cultural places around the oldest part of Palo Alto.

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M O R E :

• The Palo Alto Historical Association
• The Palo Alto History Project
• The HP Garage

California Historic Landmark No. 976 — Birthplace of Silicon Valley

• Professorville Historic District
• Santa Clara County: California’s Historic Silicon Valley –
  A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
• Junior Museum and Zoo

This year, the Junior Museum & Zoo turns 75! Founded in 1934 by Josephine O’Hara and Josephine Deveneck in a local elementary school, the Junior Museum and Zoo was the first children’s museum west of the Mississippi and has been a local leader in children’s science education since its inception. More history about the Junior Museum & Zoo.

• Rinconada Park

History: Rinconada is Palo Alto’s second oldest park (after El Camino). Established in 1922, it was originally called Waterworks after a nearby well and reservoir. Two years later it was renamed Rinconada (Spanish for corner) through a contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.

• Children’s Library

The Children’s Library, the oldest free standing children’s library in the country, was designed by noted local architects Birge and David Clark and built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

• The Palo Alto Art Center

T R I C K – O R – T R E A T

BAY AREA HALLOWEEN KID FUN
Frisco Kids Halloween Fun
Pumpkin Patches are more fun with kids in the Bay Area

F U R T H E R   S O U T H:

B A R C E L O N A MX: mmm… xocolata!

We’ve planned this day for a trip to Figueres, waked up early in the morning and were at Passeig de Gràcia railway station late enough to miss the express train, so decided to sweeten our day at the Gran Via Escribà that had a special place in my culinary memory…

…and a sweet reminder for Father’s Day too!

Continued our culinary itinerary to The Boqueria for a fresh juice, through Barri Gòtic to the Chocolate Museum.
Doh! The museum is closed on Tuesdays, we should have stayed with the original plan that had the Chocolate Day for Wednesday… So we took a peek at the Pastry School, sweet, keep the museum on the wish list and learn more about what we’ve missed in the Virtual Museum.

From here we entered the huge greenery of Parc de la Ciutadella.
We’ve passed by Castell dels Tres Dragons designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner for the Universal Exhibition of 1888, now the Museum of Zoology.
We’ve continued our Parc de la Ciutadella walk past the Arc de Triomf gate, stopped at a little playground, the Cascada Fountain, and the Stone Mammoth… It was a nice stroll in a beautiful park, and for the next visit we’ll set aside more time for a statue scavenger hunt. Now we were looking for a gate to the beach and we found the entrance to the Zoo!

Barcelona Zoo was a very nice surprise. We didn’t plan for it, but the home of Snowflake is such a lovely zoo with a dolphinarium, Montserrat Mountain, aviary kitchen … and a wonderful wooden playground too!

There is a Picasso itinerary we had in mind but didn’t make it, adding it to the wish list: the Picasso Museum and Homenatge a Picasso by Antoni Tàpies. Checking the virtual tour of the houses Picasso lived and worked in Barcelona.

For something new we wanted to end the day in Poble Nou, at the beach and restaurant, preferably a combination of both. We didn’t find a restaurant to like on the beach, but we’ve enjoyed them both separately. Next time we’ll probably try the tourist bus green route, Barceloneta with kids and Port Vell too. But this time the kids were particularly happy eating at L’Aliança del Poble Nou: caracoles, chipirones, mejillones… a yummy happy ending of another full day!