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  • Five budget-minded tips for celebrating the Fourth of July
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    Five budget-minded tips for celebrating the Fourth of July

    ByEileen Ogintz June 27, 2011June 29, 2023

    Which party are you going to? Across the country on July 4th weekend, everyone will be slurping ice cream cones, waving flags and having a good time — hopefully. If you want to do more than attend — or host — a BBQ in your backyard, you certainly have your pick. Here are five picks guaranteed to please without busting the budget

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  • All about the Indianapolis Children’s Museum in new guest blog
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    All about the Indianapolis Children’s Museum in new guest blog

    ByEileen Ogintz June 27, 2011June 28, 2023

    The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis hosted Eileen recently and posted her guest blog on the experience.

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  • All Things Cruise now featuring Eileen’s blogs
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    All Things Cruise now featuring Eileen’s blogs

    ByEileen Ogintz June 24, 2011June 28, 2023

    /uploadedImages/All Things Cruise logo.JPGEileen’s now blogging on All Things Cruise, a great site for researching your next cruise adventure!

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  • More very upscale resorts begin catering to families
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    More very upscale resorts begin catering to families

    ByEileen Ogintz June 23, 2011June 28, 2023

    A growing number of ultra deluxe resorts around the world, which once never saw kids or barely tolerated their presence, have changed their tune as more wealthy parents are bringing their kids along. The good news for those of us without unlimited resources: Choose your dates wisely and you may be able to vacation like the rich and famous

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  • In Freeport Maine, a restauranteur who gets it about kids and nutrition
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    In Freeport Maine, a restauranteur who gets it about kids and nutrition

    ByEileen Ogintz June 23, 2011June 28, 2023

    What sets this place apart is his philosophy that I wish other restaurant owners and chefs would embrace. Rather than limiting kids to a kids menu, he offers smaller portions of just about everything on the menu – from calamari to filet mignon and Scottish salmon — at a reduced price.

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  • Maine’s Hidden Pond resort is designed for 21st Century families
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    Maine’s Hidden Pond resort is designed for 21st Century families

    ByEileen Ogintz June 22, 2011June 28, 2023

    Hidden Pond is just 16 spacious cottages spread over 60 wooded acres a mile from Kennebunkport’s famous Goose Rocks Beach that’s open just from May to October. It’s a place where kids can tool around on bikes, go for a hike, do cannon balls in the pool and gather around the fire pit for s’mores and even take an outdoor shower in the cottages or pick vegetables or herbs in the gardens

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  • Three Days in Maine — Day One on a Lobster Boat
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    Three Days in Maine — Day One on a Lobster Boat

    ByEileen Ogintz June 21, 2011June 28, 2023

    We learn from our affable captain Dave Coleman that Maine provides the world with 75 per cent of its lobsters and that licensed lobstermen work very, very hard—with each one having about 800 traps and checking on about 150 a day. We see how much work it is for Dave to haul in just the one trap andcheck the lobsters for size.

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  • On a houseboat in Lake Powell — a great place to gather families together
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    On a houseboat in Lake Powell — a great place to gather families together

    ByEileen Ogintz June 20, 2011June 29, 2023

    Who said today’s families—even teens and college students—are too jaded for old-fashioned vacations? Not on a Lake Powell Houseboat. These days, it’s hard enough to gather the family at the same place together much less come up with something that will please everybody, whatever their ages

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  • Guest blogging on Visit Orlando site
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    Guest blogging on Visit Orlando site

    ByEileen Ogintz June 20, 2011June 28, 2023

    Eileen contributes to the Visit Orlando site with a guest blog about putting the family vacation back in Orlando.

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  • Finding a Beach Bargain in the Caribbean and Hawaii
    Beach Vacations | Destinations | Families & Groups | Weekly Column

    Finding a Beach Bargain in the Caribbean and Hawaii

    ByEileen Ogintz June 16, 2011June 28, 2023

    This summer, if you are willing to fly, you may find a better deal in the Caribbean or even Hawaii than in traditional beach resort towns like Newport, R.I., or Cape Cod, Mass. In fact, when Travelocity named summer’s Top 10 family destinations, after Orlando, they included Cancun and Puerta Vallerta, the Hawaiian Islands, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos and the Dominican Republic.

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