TWO AMAZING VEHICLES TO BUY FOR ENDLESS FAMILY FUN

When your kids are young, you’ll do anything to ensure they’re entertained. Weekends are planned in advance and you frantically scour the web looking for ideas during school breaks. It can be stressful for most parents, but what if there was a way to guarantee endless family fun for years to come? 

This sounds like you’re about to be sold a timeshare or some magic beans! It’s nothing like that at all - instead, you should consider buying one of these two vehicles to give your family years of exciting trips and days out. Source 

A Boat 

Do you live near the sea? If so, a boat is a wonderful purchase for your family. It provides you with hours of fun on sunny days as you can set out to sea and enjoy the ocean views and gorgeous weather. 

You can do so much with a boat; it’s a water vehicle that’s primed for fishing, diving, swimming, or just roaming around on the sea and having fun. There are also many types of boats you may consider buying for your family depending on where you live. You could opt for a small speedboat, a large yacht, or possibly even a canal boat! 

No matter which option you choose, be sure you know what you’re getting into. Boat life can be complicated, but there are great resources from sites like BoatingWorld to help out. Understanding how to look after your boat and maintain high levels of safety at all times. Your kids will have loads of fun and they’ll constantly be asking when they can go out on the boat again. 

An RV 

Alternatively, if you prefer land-based family adventures, an RV is more to your tastes. This pretty much gives your family a home on wheels. You get to drive anywhere in the country and have a safe place to rest and sleep every night. 

It’s the perfect vehicle for family camping trips or road trips across the state. You legitimately have endless years of fun in one package here. You’ll never have to worry about school breaks again; book a few days off and then go camping in the RV with your kids. 

Some of you may be worried by the idea of spending days with your kids in a small space. It can get hectic and stressful, which is why you need to make regular stops for fun activities. This can be as simple as walking through a great National Park or pulling up at a campsite so they can play with other kids. Regardless, an RV is an awesome way to strengthen your family’s connection as you can make these trips a regular occurrence. Everyone will look forward to them in the holidays, creating a lovely family tradition. 

Why are both of these vehicles great ideas for families? Because they provide elongated fun over years, decades even. As your kids grow up, they’ll still have fun on the boat or during your RV camping trips. Then, when you enter your twilight years and they become adults, you can pass down the vehicle to them and their families. It’s a lovely way to ensure a tradition lives on through generations of your family.

STORY PIRATES NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

Combining improvisational theatre with kindie music is the artistic troupe STORY PIRATES.  They take stories submitted to them by kids and transform them into humorous songs and skits which are shared through stage performances, video presentations and their popular Story Pirates Podcast.  Now some of the best songs which had previously been featured on their podcast have been compiled to create this performance group's first ever musical album titled NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

STORY PIRATES: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE is a foray into an eccentric array of topics ranging from penguins who work in an office to a carrot who lives on Saturn and longs to be eaten. This 12-song album utilizes the imaginations of children to create comedic tunes meant to get a laughs and giggles from people of all ages.  Adding professional polish to what young minds scribble down on paper invites kids into the creative process providing a fresh approach when it comes to adult artists engaging with kindie music's youthful audiences. It has resulted in an album that children will find captivating and entertaining.

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE can be purchased digitally from Amazon, Bandcamp, Google Play Music and iTunes.  It can be streamed via Spotify too.  Also consider taking in a live Story Pirates performance as the troupe performs regularly in New York City and Los Angeles as well as tours from coast to coast across the USA.

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE kicks off with “Fart Out Loud Day,” a funky Motown track based on a story by two sisters submitted to STORY PIRATES from Colorado, ages 9 and 11. An entire body-positivity curriculum, including a Spanish lesson, is hinted at during this special song, and listeners are invited to "let it all out” and not be ashamed of this normal bodily function.



The fun continues with a modern dance-pop tune, perfect for Halloween parties: “Frank the Monster Who Wasn’t Scary,” followed by “The Guy,” a hip hop rap about a lazy boy who soon tires of his equally lazy, chip-eating neighbor. The soaring “Star” is followed by the title track, in which Glitter the pony becomes “the best guitar player in the world” despite all the naysayers. The shiny electro-pop “All 8 Unicorns” was inspired by the story submitted by a preschooler from NYC.



Other songs include the motivational ballad "Nothing Is Impossible," food inspired tunes "Fred the Carrot" and "Pizza Revenge," and some off the wall bird songs "Riding a Seagull Was Good" and "How Penguin Office Became a Thing." Take a listen to the full album on Spotify:

For more information sail over to storypirates.com

FIRST SWIM FORCE SWIMMING MEET

My daughter just competed in her first SWIM FORCE swimming meet!  Kids who have graduated out of Goldfish Swim School's tier of lessons can be a part of this program that introduces them to friendly competition and the athletic aspect of swimming. Swim Force members meet for an hour each week to be coached on perfecting their strokes and becoming faster swimmers in the pool.  Then there are quarterly SWIM FORCE swimming meets throughout the year where the kids can choose which events they want to compete in.

There is an informal atmosphere to these meets where the kids are dressed casually not wearing swim caps or hydrodynamic swimsuits; sit together as a group cheering on other swimmers when they aren't in the pool themselves; and setting personal time records is emphasized over winning races.  To keep things light hearted the meet ends with a relay race where swimmers must wear a Goldfish Swim School t-shirt over their swimsuit and pass it on to other team members to put on as they swim their length of the race.  These quarterly meets introduce kids to the FUN-damentals of competitive swimming with a focus on making sure everyone is having a fun experience.

It has only been a few weeks since my daughter moved up from swimming lessons to join the Swim Force; but she was gung-ho to participate right away in her first swimming meet.  She signed up to compete in her best stroke, the backstroke, and her favorite one, the butterfly, during the Swim Force swimming meet. Of course she joined in the t-shirt relay race too because it sounded like too good of a time to miss out on when her coaches described the event to her.

Goldfish Swim School tries to keep the races evenly matched with girls vs girls and boys vs boys plus kids are assigned heats where they compete against equivalently skilled swimmers. Still competing in front of other kids as well as an audience of their families can still be daunting and I could see my daughter was a bit nervous before the meet. You couldn't tell though once the Swim Force swimming meet began.  She did really well!

After the swimming wrapped up it was time for a snack. PIZZA for everyone! My daughter refueled enjoying pizza slices and Rice Krispies provided by Goldfish Swim School while laughing and chatting with new found friends she had made since joining the Swim Force. It was a fun, memorable night for the whole family and my little mermaid is already looking forward to swimming in the next Swim Force swimming meet at Goldfish Swim School.

There was a big smile on her face after swimming in her first Goldfish Swim School Swim Force swimming meet. Three events → three 2nd place ribbons. A nice introduction to competitive swimming! She really had a great time during her first ever swimming meet.

For more information about Goldfish Swim School swimming lessons and its Swim Force program, head over to goldfishswimschool.com

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