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C.A.L.M. With A Little Excitement
Location:
10500 Alfred Harrell Highway,
Bakersfield, CA
A few weeks ago we had some friends visit from northern California. As a special outing for the kids, we planned a trip to the California Living Museum (C.A.L.M.). A lovely day was had by all.
Until the kiddo came along, I really didn’t visit C.A.L.M. all that much. But stay-at-home-mommyhood sort of forced me into discovering fun kid things to do. Fact –social life, outings, and events just change when you have kids. (For some reason or another, my toddler doesn’t want to sit around and have silent reading for an hour. I tried to tell her how much fun we’d have, but she didn’t go for it.) So, we discovered parks, play dates, kiddie gyms, story times at local bookstores, etc. And I rediscovered C.A.L.M.
The first time we went out there as a family was when the kiddo was a little over a year old. We went with a large group of friends for the holiday light display. We’ve also been to C.A.L.M. for the Boo at the Zoo event held at the end of October. Both events are perfect family fun time. But this last month we didn’t attend any special event out there. We just went to hang out with friends.
And what a great time we had. The kids loved the snakes, the bears, the birds – they loved all the animals. The tortoises even put on a special show for us – a little lesson in reproductive education for the kids.
“Mommy, what are they doing?”
“Uh.” (long pause)
“Yeah, Mommy, what are they doing?” asks my mommy friend. She knows I was NOT prepared for this moment.
“Well, what do you think they’re doing, honey?” I thought this was a more than brilliant response on my part.
“The daddy’s giving the mommy a piggy back ride,” says my also brilliant child.
“That’s right, sweetie.” This is all she needs to know at 3 ½. End of conversation – thank goodness!
We moved on, eventually making our way to the picnic and playground area. We were only there for 30/45 minutes, but the kids could’ve played there for at least another hour.
It’s been a few weeks now since we’ve been out there, and I’m ready to go again. I’m not sure I want to visit the tortoise exhibit, but I’m willing to take the risk to have such a great time again.
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posted by
Jason
on Apr 21, 2008 at 05:25 PM
What, no photos of the tortoises? ;) Been here 5 years, and we still haven't been to CALM (this year, I promise!)--though the grandparents took The Pumpkin once when daycare was closed and they came up, and she loved it. Isn't it funny how kids make you go out and be social? :) So glad she forced you to go to the kiddie gym, bushelandapeck--so glad we met all that time ago! posted by
Christina
on Apr 21, 2008 at 08:26 PM
I'm so sick of visiting CALM, alas.. my kids love it and I love how it tires them out. Plus you can't ask for a better price and location. The radio auction sells season passes for an entire family, for around 20 dollars.. really need to think about getting one of those. I'm sure we've spent at LEAST that this year! posted by
pedigo328
on Apr 22, 2008 at 12:42 PM
CALM is actually a really interesting place. I'm not even a kid anymore (or shall I say real young kid), but I've participated in community service there, and that was pretty cool. I'd have to say I lived in the mountains for 7 to 8 years, and never touched a deer. A year ago I went to CALM, and I got to pet the deer there. It was pretty neat. I also got to see all the birds up close which is really fascinating, along with the in-house animals (the smaller breeds.) Not that many of us have to do community service, but if you decide to or need to, I suggest try it there. It's not bad, and can be actually really cool. Definitely changes the aspect of just viewing these creatures from the outside of the pin. posted by
LisaW
on Apr 24, 2008 at 09:25 AM
OK what is it about tortoises getting it on at the zoo? Everytime I go to the zoo (and not just CALM... Santa Barbara, San Diego, Phoenix, etc), this is what happens. And they say rabbits are bad...
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