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When my son was obsessed with “Wheels on the Bus” (what is it about that song?), we took a loop aboard a Ride On bus, whose driver actually broke out in song for a 2-year-old’s dream come true. It’s bright, tall and free, and can take you from Old Georgetown Road to Bradley Boulevard. If your kids are really little, they’ll love it. Make it extra adventurous with my husband’s trick, a coin flip to determine the extent of fixings on your hash browns: scattered (on the grill), smothered (with onions), covered (with cheese), chunked (with ham), topped (with Bert’s chili), diced (with tomatoes) peppered (with jalapeños), capped (with mushrooms) and/or country (with sausage gravy). Plus, you can reward everyone with a trip to the Waffle House in nearby Urbana. Just south of Frederick, the trails are shady in parts, cooler up top and just challenging enough to make it interesting, with craggy rocks to climb. Man driving the wrong way on I-270 killed 1, injured 9 Luckily, there’s so much to offer.Ī few ways to occupy yourself and your kids without melting into oblivion: Now I’m channeling more of the fanning-oneself-on-the-porch sort of steel magnolia.īut this isn’t a Tennessee Williams play, and I’ve got kids who need a little more activity than that. Turns out the idea only works when you’re about 21. At the time, my kooky cousin had grown out his kinky hair and invoked a mantra: “Embrace the curl.” Genius, I thought, and decided I’d “embrace the heat.” I summoned the strength of my Southern heritage (Mom grew up in Vidalia, Georgia) and let the heat waves roll over me on walks to get a cheese-and-avocado sandwich from the corner deli. When I moved here after college for a summer internship at a shoestring publication, my editors ordered lunch in rather than venture into the thick air over Dupont Circle on particularly oppressive days. Turns out Washington, D.C., was not built on a swamp, despite popular proclamations otherwise each summer, when Operation Steam Bath rolls in and we roll up our sleeves to fight shirt stains, untamed hair and general ennui.

Other than pools, splash pads, libraries and the Smithsonian, what are some other places I can take my kids this summer? was built on a swamp?-and I need new activities for my kids.

I can’t deal with the heat here-is it true D.C.

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