Adirondack Family Time™

We will be at the following locations for October! October 6, 2012: Adirondack Kids Day in Inlet * 11 am - noon Join us for a knot tying workshop for kids and families at the Youth Commission Building behind Inlet's Town Hall * 1:00 - 3:00 pm Children's Author Fair at the Adirondack Reader * 3:00 - 4 :00 pm Hiking Tips and Safety  at the Youth Commission Building behind Inlet's Town Hall October 13, 2012: Saratoga Springs Public Library , Community Room 1:00 pm Stop by for fun activities, handouts, hiking tips for young children, knot tying workshop for kids and join us for a nature walk.

Once again Smithsonian magazine is offering a FREE museum pass for participating museums. In the Adirondack Park that includes the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake and the 1932/1980 Olympic Museum in Lake Placid and Adirondack History Center , Elizabethtown. This pass is good for two people. Enjoy!

Adirondack Balloon Festival Schedule September 20-23, 2012 40th Anniversary Celebration • All balloon flights are weather permitting. • Open to the public - FREE of charge • Donations will be accepted for parkiing, Premiere • VIP parking is available for a fee. • No Dogs! Thursday, September 20th - Crandall Park - City of Glens Falls 4:30-6:30pm:  Music and Band Performance 5:00pm:  Opening Ceremonies –Acknowledgement of 40th Anniversary 5:15pm:  Launch of special shape “Birthday Cake” balloon followed by launch of 20 balloons 6:00-9:30:  City of Glens Falls Block Party featuring Walk-about balloon, balloon baskets on display, car show, kid’s activities and FIREWORKS! Friday, September 21st - Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport - Queensbury 3:00pm:  Gates Open, Craft Fair and Food Vendors open for business 5:00pm:  Balloon Launch – 80+ balloons including special shapes Friday, September 21st - Battlefield Park - Lake George Village 8:00pm:  Moonglow at the lak

We are always looking for used sporting goods and good quality consignment clothes for my growing children. If you know of other big consignment events, please let me know! 2012 Fall/Winter Sale: 2012 Fall/Winter Consignment Sale at the Adirondack Sports Complex 326 Sherman Avenue in Queensbury, just off Exit 18 of I-87. Cash only for purchases.  SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 9 a.m.-1 p.m.  Sale Open To The Public 1:00-1:30 p.m. Sale Closed 1:30 p.m. -3 p.m. H ALF-PRICE SALE Open To The Public Looking for new, like-new and gently used children's items at bargain prices? Find thousands of items of the highest quality and best brands all under one roof. Maternity  Brand-name Baby & kids' clothing, sizes 0-12 Toys Books Games and Puzzles Baby Gear and Furniture DVDs Computer Games Bikes, Trikes and  Ride-Ons Jungle-gyms and Playhouses Sports Gear  Room Decor  much more! 

According to the 9/11 Manhattan boat lift. (Narrated by Tom Hanks) "500,000 people evacuated in 9 hours. When the people fleeing the collapse hit the seawall, the men and women who work the water saw their fellow Americans in need and came full throttle.   They came on their own, they organized on their own and they achieved on their own. The largest sea evacuation in history - larger than the evacuation (339,000) at Dunkirk in WWII which took 9 days. These boats evacuated a half a million people in less than 9 hours." Remembering 9/11/01 New York magazine created this encyclopedia giving the following list of September 11  by numbers.  It is a visual way to show your children how the 9/11 attacks and the fall of the Twin Towers in New York City created such devastation.  Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02):  2,819 Number of firefighters and paramedics killed:  343 Number of NYPD officers:  23 Number of Port Authority police