“July, July! July, you never seemed so strange” – The Decemberists “July, July!” I don’t make it a habit of sharing our social calendar on these pages. I’m making an exception right now because next month is shaping up to be the busiest ever for OWTK. Much of the activity […]
In less than 2 weeks OWTK is heading to the Big Apple to experience, enjoy and share with you Toy Fair ’09! Can’t yet tell you, with any certainty, what to expect from OWTK during all of this, as I’m still putting the pieces in place. You should, at a […]
This Saturday marks the opening of the Junior Jazz Festival at the new Please Touch Museum. The new theater production will be “Scat Cat’s Junior Jazz Jamboree” and on weekends there will be live jazz ensembles performing throughout the day. Sounds good to this jazz fan! As an added bonus, […]
Well, plenty of time actually but the too-many-toys bit is right-on. The girls and I are seemingly paralyzed by the sheer volume of new stuff to play with. Our collective attention span has diminished greatly since Christmas Day. We move from new thing to new thing at a breakneck speed, […]
The girls and I spent today at the Please Touch Museum. ‘Twas our third visit to the new location but our first since opening week. A few things have changed since mid-October, one that was most necessary and that is the way members enter the museum. Yesterday, conveniently enough, a […]
The official OWTK review of the new and improved Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia was written over the course of two full-day visits to the kiddie pleasure dome within it’s first full week of being open to the public. If you’ve never been, you should know that the old center […]
Last Wednesday the girls and I spent our stay at home day on the road. On a whim, after playing with Harmony, one of the Bear’s stuffed animals purchased from the sweetest place on Earth earlier this year, I decided to pack up the troops and head west to Hershey, […]
On a whim, we drove up to New York City on Sunday afternoon for an overnight stay at The Manhattan Club and a day at the American Museum of Natural History. My brother owns a timeshare up there (more on that later) and couldn’t make his Sunday night reservation work […]
