Music Fans!
Tomorrow, Thursday is the day!!! McMenamins’ Kennedy School Gym is the biggest concert of the year for The Toy Trains. We need your help to make it a HUGE show. We count on your support to keep this band chugging along. It’s rare when we get to play in such a roomy venue, and we need to rock the house, or we may not get invited back.
Please get your whole family to this show! As a matter of fact, bring along your neighbors and friends. We promise a great show with surprises and lots of great music. If you’ve been put off by cramped conditions, this venue is for you!
Don’t have kids? Find some to bring to the show! Or, just come and enjoy the music – this 7-member group plays a little bit of everything (The Band, Bob Dylan, Neil Young…all kinds!). If you come to one show, this is it!!!
Plus, this is a free show!!! 5:30 – 6:45 on Thursday, March 11th. Hope you can make it. Finally, find us on Facebook “The Toy Trains” and become a fan.
Wilsonville, Ore. – The Wilsonville Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle’s Restaurant is pleased to announce its newest attraction, Sky Trail.
Thursday, March 18th from 4 to 8 pm, The Family Fun Center is hosting a GRAND OPENING PARTY for Sky Trail and guests of all ages are invited to attend. All Guests will receive Free Sky Trail Admission from 4 – 8 pm!
Sky Trail is a ropes course that allows participants to move around multiple obstacles that are 12 feet above the ground. Participants are secured in a full body harness attached to a rope line that allows them to move through the obstacles without having to unclip themselves, as you would in a traditional ropes course.
The first 50 guests to come through the door at 4 pm will receive a FREE EXTREME DAY PASS to use during Spring Break. Visit www.fun-center.com for all details!
About The Wilsonville Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle’s Restaurant
The Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle’s Restaurant is a 6-acre amusement park centrally located between Portland & Salem. The Outdoor Attractions include: Go-Karts, Miniature Golf, 28’ Rock Wall, Sky Trail, Bumper Boats and Batting Cages. Indoor Attractions include: Lazer Tag, Max Flight Cyber Coaster, Kidopolis Playland, Frog Hopper, 2 Story Arcade, Bullwinkle’s Family Restaurant and a 4,000 sq foot Event Center.
Let’s face it, there are times when (as parents), we all could all use a little extra support, practical information, and good advice. Rebecca Magby (
Everything Baby, LLC) is who we turned to with our own parenting concerns. After several sessions, we were able to target some of the underlying problems, create some household rules, routines, and develop a plan to improve sleep!
I particularly enjoyed Rebecca’s flexibility (e.g., we conducted our sessions over Skype after the kids went to bed, which was ultra-convenient). Plus, Rebecca offered refreshing perspectives on how to manage common problems without simply relying on time-outs, punishments, and rewards. Here is a bit about Rebecca from her website:
“Rebecca Magby has been studying child development, psychological theories, behavioral issues, and prescription free solutions to ADD/ADHD symptoms for the past 15 years while working one-on-one with children of every age group.
Her career with children started as a preschool teacher where she also learned observation skills, which she still uses today to better understand families and their requirements.
Rebecca is a Certified Professional Nanny who’s worked with many families with different needs. In 2005, Rebecca returned to school studying psychology and child development while staying active in her Nanny Family’s life.
Over the years, Rebecca has focused much of her training and development in behavior modification and nonprescription solutions to ADD/ADHD symptoms.
Currently, Rebecca is finishing Academy for Coaching Parents International’s coaching courses, and later this year will receive her certification as an ACPI Certified Coach™ for Parent and Families, (ACPI CCP).”
While problems will always exist, MANY improvements have been noticeable in our own family due to Rebecca’s suggestions and coaching. If you need some support, we (at Portland Family Adventures) recommend contacting her.
What’s to Love: If you’re wondering what “Freeriding” means, you might want to first check-out
OPB’s feature from Oregon Field Guide. Basically, it’s riding a mountain bike through “technical features” setup along forest paths. These technical features can be something as innocent as a small bump. However, as one progresses further into freeriding, the “technical features” become narrow balance beams (far off the ground too!), teeter-totters, banked turns, and HUGE drop-offs. This is a popular form of mountain biking, and “Post Canyon” outside Hood River is one of the country’s premiere areas.
As adventure-loving-parents, you must become familiar with Portland’s very own
Joe “Metal Cowboy” Kurmaskie. I can’t believe I just read my first book by Kurmaskie (Mud, Sweat, and Gears). Where have I been? I rarely do this on the site, but I want to encourage you all to order his book as soon as possible! If you
PayPal him directly at: mtcowboy@teleport.com, he’ll give you free shipping and the book for only $20! That’s an incredible deal!
This book will inspire you to get up, get out, and have even MORE fun with your family. His wife’s footnotes add to the outrageous, (at times) self-deprecating, bust-out-loud-laughing-humor. I couldn’t put the book down, and I still can barely believe that any family has enough guts (or whatever you want to call it) to do what they did. How did I finally stumble into the Kurmaskie circle?
There I was at a Portland biking event (Expo Center) with my two kids. I was telling one of the event’s sponsors about my Portland Family Adventure website. I went off on how the site has propelled me into travel writing, and how I’ve been able to have so many exciting adventures with my family. The sponsor listened politely. When I finished, he said, “That sounds great, but you gotta go check-out that dude over there – calls himself the Metal Cowboy.”
I quickly answered back, “Oh yeah, what’s so great about the Metal Cowboy.” Actually, I didn’t really say that, but I was thinking it. I was also thinking, “Metal Cowboy?”
The sponsor said, and I could barely believe what I was hearing, “That guy pedaled 4000 miles across Canada with his wife and 3 kids!” What? I made him repeat it to me again. Yep…same thing I thought I heard the first time. Wow…I had to go meet this guy. Mud, Sweat, and Gears chronicles this amazing journey. While bikes certainly make the story impressive, it’s really about how adventure can pull a family together.
So, I did finally make my way over to meet Joe Kurmaskie. He is an engaging guy, which clearly stands out in his writing. In a short conversation, I learned that he has written several books, biked across African nations, the Australian Outback, and across the USA with his sons and his father’s ashes. I stood there in disbelief. Really? I had about a million questions I wanted to ask him, but he seemed more interested in my own kids, and listening to a story I told about my son Rhys riding Pedalpalooza when he was 3 1/2. What a day…
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