A couple of times over the past week, I’ve received the question, where is there to go Downtown that’s kid-friendly? After thinking about it, I gotta admit: I can’t come up with a whole lot of places. Not that I’m an expert or anything, since I don’t have kids. These are the ones I can think of:<\/p>\n
– Jillian’s – obviously. The arcade, the bowling alley, the pool room. Probably the most kid-friendly place Downtown.<\/p>\n
– The Fire Museum – kids can climb on the trucks, experience what it’s like to be in a simulated fire. It’s on Adams between Second and Main.<\/p>\n
– Big Foot Lodge – They have a lot of menu items that would appeal to kids. For example, the Yeti, an 18-scoop ice cream sundae, S’mores you cook at your table, deep dish skillet cookies a la mode.<\/p>\n
– Flying Fish – Kids can have fun looking at the Billy Bass Adoption Center and all the other fish-related decorations.<\/p>\n
– Spaghetti Warehouse – I haven’t been there in a couple of years myself, so it’s hard for me to list definite reasons why this place is kid-friendly, but last time I went I seem to remember a lot of families having fun there. Kids love spaghetti.<\/p>\n
… And those are about the only places I can think of. If there are others I’ve missed, let me know.<\/p>\n
Heading out to the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival<\/a> in a few minutes. For those of you who don’t feel like driving all the way Downtown, there’s also East BumbleFest<\/a> going on at the Agricenter through September 9. And hopefully the Tigers will lay the smack down on Ole Miss this afternoon – game starts at 2:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of times over the past week, I’ve received the question, where is there to go Downtown that’s kid-friendly? After thinking about it, I gotta admit: I can’t come up with a whole lot of places. Not that I’m an expert or anything, since I don’t have kids. These are the ones I can … Continue reading “What is there to do Downtown that’s kid-friendly?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}