Last night I spoke to a friend in California who is coming for a visit when her kids get out of school in a few weeks. We were trying to figure out what there is to do here besides hang out in the yard. We don't have a pool, so we planned on a visit to the public one in town and looked into a few things worth seeing, like a local zoo and museum, and finally we settled on going tubing down the Salt River. Between that and getting to play paintball (in our backyard) they should have a pretty good time.
While we talked the issues of schools and stuff came up. My friend doesn't want to send her sons to the local high school, they're too overcrowded, just for a start, and I know that when I lived there the thought of sending my kids to those schools bothered me, that's why we were homeschooling our as soon as they hit middle school, we just moved before anyone else got there and here we are fine about sending the kids to the public schools here.
But I digress, what else is there to do here in the summer? I guess we could go to Phoenix to Castles and Coasters, or to other places, like Sedona or Jerome. There's plenty to do if you just go do it. There's always some of the national parks, there are several around here where you can see how the Native Americans lived.
And then there's the fact that they can actually go for bike rides around here, or walk to the store for ice creams or candy, and play water pistols and hang in the tree house. It's just a little more old-fashioned fun, from before video games and movie channels.
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