READER REVIEW: iWorlds at Thanksgiving Point

Our reader, Laural Wilcox, attended the new iWorlds exhibit at Thanksgiving Point, and this is what she had to say:

The cost is $15.00 per person and they have many different times that you can go. For most missions you will want to make sure you have at least 6 people and make sure you have reservations. They have a list of times on their website at www.iworlds.com and in order to make reservations you will need to call them at 801-768-2300.

The iWorlds experience at Thanksgiving Point is an interactive experience. It’s different every time because you make the choices. When you first go in you get to choose a position. You can choose anything from Captain to Sensor officer to Security officer. Each position has a different job in the ship and very different responsibilities. After going over rules and learning about the mission, you get transported into the space ship. Inside the space ship you will get seated at your own personal station. At each station, you learn about the different controls, and then you are off!

For the mission we went on, our mission was to save 1,300 people stranded on the planet “New Earth” and send some papers to an ally. Once we got into the ship, the captain gave us a pep-talk, and the Navigation Officer drove us towards the planet. At one point, some intruders got onto the ship and almost sabotaged the mission. Also, the ship was attacked! The security officers killed the intruders, the weapons officer broke all of the missiles, and the Captain took the all the credit. It was non-stop action on the spaceship!

Thanks Laural for letting us know about this! I am super excited to check it out! :) 

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Information

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is coming to Utah! 

About The Show

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents

FULLY CHARGED℠

Power Up with a Surge of High-Voltage Circus Fun & Excitement

Coming To Salt Lake City from September 22 - 25, 2011

WHAT: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® invites families to disconnect from the digital world and plug
into the most electrifying circus experience ever at the all-new show Fully Charged, where megawatts of thrills explode off the arena floor with breathtaking dare-devilry, superhuman stunts and never-before-seen performances that will energize Children Of All Ages!

Fully Charged celebrates all kinds of "performance power": horse-power, man-power, athletic power and features amazing circus acts that can only be seen at The Greatest Show On Earth®, including:

• Tabayara, a dynamic animal trainer whose rare ability to communicate with animals allows him to ride rearing stallions at a fully-charged gallop, orchestrate majestic four-ton Asian elephants in a symphony of dance and stand inside a cage, eye-to-eye with 12 ferocious tigers.
• Audiences will feel the earth shake when The Brothers of Brawn, who are as wide as they are tall, enter the arena. The strongman duo will lift large telephone poles and twirl them above their heads while acrobats balance atop, sustaining up to half a ton total weight.
• The fearless Fernandez Brothers dial up the thrills on the Twin Turbines of Steel, including extreme jumps and twists inside the moving wheels! Audiences will crackle with excitement as they watch Guillermo perform a 360-degree, flying-forward somersault, three stories in the air.
• The Danguir Troupe thrills on the high-wire as they execute dangerous stunts and for the first time ever a shoulder to shoulder leap, three stories high!
• Sparks will fly as The Human Fuse (Brian Miser) sets the arena sky ablaze as he rockets through the air at 65 miles per hour from his self-made human crossbow.
• Ever wonder how many clowns it takes to change a light bulb? Hilarious hoopla ensues with the comedic duo of Stas and Vas plus the clowns from the world-famous Ringling Bros.® Clown Alley, will send jolts of laughter shooting straight to the audiences' funny bone with hysterical silly antics and clownish comedy.

Be sure to arrive early to join us for several exciting interactive elements before the show starts! Opening 90 minutes prior to each performance, all ticket holders are invited to tour the Animal Open House to get up-close with our amazing animals. Then one hour before show time, families can step onto the arena floor to meet the performers, try on costumes, learn circus skills through the CircusFit® program and get a chance to see a remarkable elephant paint a masterpiece at the All-Access Pre-Show Power Up Party. Both fun-filled activities are FREE with a purchased ticket!

WHEN: September 22 - 25, 2011
Thursday, September 22nd - 7:00 pm
Friday, September 23rd - 3:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 24th - 11:00 am; 3:30 pm; 7:30 pm
Sunday, September 25th - 1:30 pm & 5:30 pm

WHERE: EnergySolutions Arena - 301 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

TICKETS: Ticket prices range from $16, $25, $38 (VIP), $57 (Front Row) and $82 (Circus Celebrity) plus Kids tickets are only $10 each (not valid for any premium seating); additional service charges, handling or facility fees may apply. Tickets are available from the EnergySolutions Box Office and all SmithTix locations, by calling (801) 355-SEAT or (800) 888-TIXX and online at www.energysolutionsarena.com or www.smithstix.com.

MEDIA INFO: Lulu Hart, Jack Hart Associates, (801) 467-0833 or lulu@lulubugllc.com

Enter To Win A VIP Animal Open House Experience With The Circus

Janice Aria - Director of Animal Stewardship Training

When you come down to the Energy Solutions Arena on Monday August 8th between 6am and 9am, you will get to enter to win a chance to join me for a Grand Event:

National Elephant Appreciation Day!
Thursday, September 22nd at 11:00 a.m. at the Arena Animal Open House
100 South between 300 west and 400 west on the southside of the arena

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be holding a VIP Animal Open House Tour and up close Elephant Seminar, Elephant Pedicure, Bath and Brunch.

This will be a fun hour long event, and only invited guests are able to attend. Here's how to get "on the list" to attend this fun event with me:

1. Bring 10 cans of food for the Utah Food Bank to the Energy Solutions Arena on Monday August 8th between 6am and 9am (MAKE SURE you bring them to the Enjoy Utah booth!), which at that time you will receive a free ticket to the circus (view complete details HERE)!
2. At my booth, I will have an "Enter To Win" box, where you will fill out your name and contact info. This is where you enter to win the chance to join me at the Animal Open House.
3. Hang out with us while you are there and enjoy fun circus activities!

About Janice Aria

Director of Animal Stewardship Training

Janice Aria began her career with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey^® in 1972 and was named Director of Animal Stewardship Training at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation^® in 2005. With more than 30 years of experience in animal handling and animal behavior, she is responsible for designing and implementing a standardized curriculum of best training practices, and works closely with trainers, interns, and their animals to maintain the highest standards of animal care.

Janice holds a Bachelors degree in Special Education from the University of South Florida. She taught high school, middle school and elementary school students for five years, developing a reading program for learning impaired students for which she received a state award for excellence in 1998, the same year she was named Teacher of the Year.

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WINNER! Hogle Zoo Passes

What? You didn't know we were giving out Hogle Zoo passes? Remember when we warned you to get your entries in for our Summer Contest, as we were going to be choosing some pre-winners? (The official contest ends after Labor Day.)

Well, we have a family 4-pack of Hogle Zoo tickets, and Jessi Perry's photo was randomly chosen. (Ironic that it was a Hogle Zoo pic that won! Haha!)

Congrats, and to the rest of you that have not entered yet: Get your entries in now! We will be surprising you with more pre-winners before the contest is over!

Teddy Bear Picnic At Hogle Zoo

Teddy Bear Picnic

Saturday, August 6, 2011
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Throughout history, no children’s toy seems as well loved as the teddy bear. Bring your favorite teddy friend to the Zoo for Teddy Bear Picnic. Kids who bring their teddy bear will get a $2 off admission. Get your Utah’s Hogle Zoo ribbon for your bear, make some crafts and get scrapbook ideas from local scrapbook stores.

2600 East Sunnyside Avenue | Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 | (801) 582-1631

Bear Lake Raspberry Days

August 4th - 6th 2011

The Raspberry Days Festival is an incredible event held to celebrate the harvest of the world famous Bear Lake Raspberries. The Raspberry harvest usually starts around the 3rd week of July and lasts 3-4 weeks.

The Raspberry Days Festival is an annual event, which begins two days prior to the first Saturday in August. The festival is a fun filled 3 days with the Little Miss Berry Pageant, the craft fair with continuous entertainment, the Parade on the Boulevard, the Rodeo and 5K run in Laketown, the Pancake Breakfast at the Garden City Park, and ending with the fireworks on the Beach.

VIEW A COMPLETE SCHEDULE HERE.

Write Shoot Ride FREE Premier!

Who's the boss of you? Facebook? YouTube? Your cell phone? Find out when 10 teens give up all electronics in their lives for a week.

August 3rd 2011
7pm
FREE!

Salt Lake Art Center
20 S West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT

Highland Fling

Come enjoy the Highland Fling, July 28 - August 6, 2011, one of Highland's great annual community events.

This year’s Highland Fling will be bigger and better with new activities including a Carnival starting the end of July!

On Saturday, July 30th the Fling will kick of with a Highland Day of Service project at Highland Glen Park and then the Baby Contest at the Community Center.

Starting August 1st we will have all sorts of fun activities leading up to Saturday’s big event. Plan on an Art Show, Kids Night, Play Day Rodeo, Scholarship Pageants, Give Me a Chance, I’ll Show You My Dance Highland (dance competition).

Then on Saturday, August 6th the day will be filled with non-stop excitement with Hot Air Balloons, 5K and Kids Fun Runs, LPHS Marching Band Pancake Breakfast, Parade (email your Grand Marshal nominations to emily@highlandcity.org), Vendor Booths, DUP Cabin Camp Cabin Tours, Highland Youth City Council Kids Zone (inflatables), BMX Stunt Team, Fireman’s Spray, all day Heritage Park Stage Entertainment featuring Artie Hemphill & the Iron Horse Band followed by Fireworks!

View their website for complete details and schedule!

Bountiful Taste Of The Town

The Davis Chamber brings Bountiful's best restaurants together for a tasting of delicious foods. Open to the public. A dance demonstration follows featuring artists from Summerfest. Tickets are $1 each, or 12 for $10. Generally, $10 feeds 4!

Main Street Bountiful
August 3rd 2011
6pm to 9pm
FREE Admission

Wasatch Wildflower Festival

July 29th 2011 - July 31st 2011

Located at Brighton, Solitude, Alta, and Snowbird

Many different walks for all different ages and abilities. Kids activities as well. View the website for complete details.

Worldwide On 25

On Tuesday, August 2, Historic 25th Street invites you to join us downtown for "Worldwide on 25" from 5:30 - 9:00 pm. This event will feature over sixteen local and independent restaurants from Weber County offering "taste portions" of their favorite featured items. In addition 240 International folk performers from seven countries and 350 World Cup Archery athletes from approximately 35 countries will blend with community residents to enjoy the second annual "Worldwide on 25."

The event will kick off at 5:30 pm with a parade from the Ogden Amphitheater strolling down Historic 25th Street toward Union Station and ending on the quaint 100 block of Historic 25th Street. The dancers and singers will perform traditional dancing and singing from their country while dressed in colorful and beautiful costumes as well as teach their cultural dances to event guests. World Cup Archery athletes will also demonstrate their sport. The action will be swirling as chefs from local restaurants provide sampling portions of their favorite items for the public to purchase. 'Worldwide on 25' is free to the public. Patrons can purchase food tickets at $1.00 per ticket or 12 for $10.00. Patrons will redeem their purchased tickets at restaurant booths of their choice. Restaurant sampling portions will be priced at two to five tickets. All types of beverages will also be available for purchase.

Hired Guns - A FREE Event!

Enjoy "Tunes and Tails from the Cowboy Trails", a nostalgic ride through the music that shaped the West. Small part lecture and large part music - performed live - and set to historical photography, Hired Guns will help you rediscover (or just discover!) songs like The Streets of Laredo, Ghost Riders in the Sky and The Marshal and the Outlaw and the stories behind them. It's 90 minutes of story and music you won't soon forget.

Come early to meet Lannie "The Marshal" Scopes and Craig "Creek" Johnson before the show at the National Night Out, beginning at 5:00 pm. The Utah Old Time Fiddlers will be on hand, along with other entertainment for your viewing and listening pleasure. National Night Out includes free food, entertainment, emergency preparedness displays, a visit from McGruff, a UHP Helicopter, emergency vehicle display, and much more. National Night Out is a way to help build community relationships between neighbors and the City. It is the Nation's premier anti-crime and drug abuse event. This is one summer show you do not want to miss!

Located at the Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley.
August 1st 2011
8pm to 9:30pm

FREE!

Thanksgiving Point $2 Tuesdays

Tuesdays in August (2, 9, 16, 23, 30)


10 am - 8 pm

* Museum of Ancient Life
* Farm Country
* Thanksgiving Point Gardens

$2/per guest, per venue
*Children 2 and under are free.

Two-Buck Tuesdays are your chance to experience Thanksgiving Point for just $2 per guest, per venue. So, for every Tuesday in August, you can visit the Museum of Ancient Life, Thanksgiving Point Gardens, or Farm Country. Or all three. Bring the family, bring the neighbors, but make sure you don’t miss the chance to experience Thanksgiving Point.

*Admission to Larry H. Miller Megaplex, Thanksgiving Point Golf, and the Mammoth Screen not included in promotion.

WHAT ELSE IS $2?

Trilobite Treasures
$2 for the first hour of digging on Tuesdays at Trilobite Treasures. Dig it.

iWorlds Space Center
$2 Tuesdays at iWorlds. Buy one seat and bring a friend for $2

Emporium
$2 Kettle Corn at the Emporium every Tuesday

Cooking Class
$2 cooking class. Register for any Emporium Cooking class in August and pay just $2 to bring a friend. Call 801.768.2300 to register.

Visit their website for complete details.

Disneyland Comes To Utah! FREE Event!

Visit their website HERE for complete details.

The DisneyParks tour will be at Fashion Place Mall on July 30th and July 31st.

FREE TICKETS to: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Mark your calendars for Monday, August 8th - 6:00am to 9:00 a.m.

The first 200 people to come to the Energy Solutions Arena at 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 am, and the first 200 people to come 8:00 am. - 9:00 am. and each donate 10 cans of food to the Utah food Bank will receive one free pass to the all new Fully Charged Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus playing at the Energy Solutions Arena Sept. 22-Sept. 25. (Person must be there with 10 cans of food to receive one free pass (no exceptions), one person/10 can donation = 1 free pass). 


While you are there, enter to win a special event invitation to join me at an Animal Open House!

There will be six different mom bloggers on location taking donations (that would be ME!) The mom that collects the most food that morning will receive 100 passes to give to their readers! I am allowed to collect food in advance and bring with me to the event, and I can get sponsors to donate food, but I can't give out any tickets in advance for the advance donations or sponsors. Only people on site donating will receive a free pass.

If you would like to donate in advance and help us get those 100 extra tickets to give away, you can drop your donations off to:
Gines Auto Service
4261 W 5415 S
Kearns, UT  84118
(801) 966-6021

(Make sure you have dropped off your donations to Gines Auto Service by Friday August 5th at 5:30pm.)

I am also allowed to bring anybody and everybody that wants to come hang out at my booth that morning. Fox 13 and a few other news stations will be there doing fun circus things with us mom bloggers. Come down and hang out with us, and participate in fun activities! Bring your kids, and it's even early enough that you can come down before work!

Any questions, email me at michelle@enjoyutah.org.

Tooele County Fair

Parade of Homes At Daybreak

Learn more at DaybreakUtah.com/Parade 
You can also see the "Up" House!! 

Springville FolkFest

Thanks to Tasha Anderson for letting us know about this event! She said it's a ton of fun!

The Springville World Folkfest will bring the color and excitement of traditional folk dance and music from around the world to Springville during the 25th annual World Folkfest planned for July 25th through July 30st, 2011, in Springville, Utah, USA. Springville is located 50 miles (approximately 1 hour) south of Salt Lake City, Utah, using Interstate 15. 

Folk dancers and musicians travel from countries around the world to attend the Springville Folkfest, which has grown to become one of the largest festivals of folk dance and music in the United States. Five outdoor evening performances are scheduled during the 2011 Folkfest on the outdoor stage at the Spring Acres Arts Park, located just north of Springville High School at 620 South 1350 East. The stage was designed specifically to accommodate Folkfest performances. The Springville World Folkfest annually features approximately 250 performers dressed in the brilliantly colored costumes of their native lands. Each dance group brings a select group of musicians to provide live music for the dancing. The dances, music and even the instruments played offer audiences a taste of many different cultures. Prior to evening performances at the Arts Park, audience members can sample treats from around the world at international food booths, mingle with performers and purchase items from the various folk dance groups. The Springville World Folkfest in good standing and adheres to the standard set by the International Organization of Folk Art (IOV), the International Council of Organizations for Folklore Festivals and Folk Art (CIOFF), and the National Folk Organization of the United States (NFO). 

View their website for complete schedule of events.

Pioneer Games

To celebrate Pioneer Day today, try some of these fun Pioneer Games with your family!

• Historic the Dalles
• Pioneer Traditions
• Pioneer Games, Toys, and Songs
• Pioneer Games
• Pioneer Pasttimes
• Old Fashioned Games
• Pioneer Activities

Handcart Craft For Kids

Because today is Pioneer Day, I thought I would post a few fun Pioneer activities.

Here is a really cute and simple Handcart Craft I found on Pioneer Life. You can find the complete instructions on the Pioneer Life website.

Here is OUR version of this craft:

Summer Hair Series: A Fun Twist On Braiding

During the hot summer months, spending a lot of time on your hair is just not an option. Thanks to Babes In Hairland, we are launching our SUMMER HAIR SERIES. Every Friday, Babes In Hairland will be bringing you some fun hair ideas that won't take a long time to do, and still keep you looking great! Hairstyles for the pool, the park, or elegant events.

Spend less time on your hair, and more time out enjoying Utah!

Hawser Braid

Hawser Braids are a great option when you are bored with the every day, same old braid.

You can view the tutorial and video HERE on Babes In Hairland.

Rope Twisted Hauser Braid

The Rope Twisted Hauser Braid is another fun twist on braiding.

You can view the tutorial HERE on Babes In Hairland.








View more summer hair ideas HERE.

Princess Days Are Back!

PRINCESS DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN AT PAUL MITCHELL THE SCHOOL SLC - JULY 30th & AUGUST 27TH 

We all think of our daughters and the young ladies in our lives as princesses, and what better way to celebrate that sentiment than a fun filled afternoon at the salon. Save the dates and give that special young lady the royal treatment at PMTS SLC.

Princess Package Cost: $20
Includes: Hairstyle, Tiara, Mini-Manicure, Makeup, Photograph & Craft Frame, A Screening of a Disney Movie & Refreshments

Princess Days - Saturday Dates:

July 30th - 12:30 to 3:30

August 27th - 12:30 to 3:30

Girls Age 3 to 14 (Must be Accompanied by an Adult)

All proceeds from the event go to benefit Paul Mitchell the School Fun-Raising Efforts. Ask your PMTS SL Representative for details.

More Fireworks Information

The Salt Lake City Fire Prevention Bureau has a special website set up with all the new fireworks laws, a map of where you cannot light fireworks, a list of fireworks regulations, and more information.

If you know of a website where we can find information about your Utah city's firework restrictions, leave a comment here and I will post a link to it. Thanks!