The largest and longest kite festival in North America
The charming coastal towns throughout the third week of August Long Beach, Washington Host Washington State International Kite Festivalis the largest and longest kite festival in North America.
It’s free.
The 2025 music festival will be held from August 18 to 24 and includes kite competitions and performances, including synchronized kite ballet and mass ascension, with hundreds of kites immediately filling the sky. Other Kite Festival activities include kite making seminars, nightly lighting kite flights, and many opportunities to fly your own kite.
When you are in Long Beach, be sure to visit World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame.
The museum has home to over 1,500 kites from 26 countries, including a 300-piece Japanese kite collection and a set of World War II military kites.
(Kids with kite photos through Florida Archives and Archives
This Oregon hotel lets us in “popcorn”
Set up a hotel Willamette Valley It is the on-site tasting room in Newberg, New York City, Oregon, and the on-site tasting room in the Oregon wine country.
We were lucky enough to have a pleasant evening there and loved the wine, free breakfast delivered to convenient and good rooms, indoor and outdoor party attractions and walking grounds.
Now, one of the new guest experiences at the hotel makes us considering the return journey.
From now until October, the Environment Hotel will offer Popcorn pairing Package includes a bottle of catering wine 2024 barrel fermented Sauvignon Blanc and comes with two bags of small batches of rosemary Parmesan popcorn Miss Hannah’s Gourmet Popcornis the favorite of the Nürberg family.
Tour of the U.S. Tour
Netherlands United States Line The behind-the-scenes tour of the popular cruise ship has been pausing for a variety of health and safety reasons.
But they are back on the paid activity list.
By the end of July, every behind-the-scenes tour will have access to the fleet, accessing every visit on board such as the navigation bridge, kitchen and engine control room, main laundry room, recycling center, bakery and bar.
The Dutch America Line will also mark the 250th birthday of the United States in 2026 and will take a special round trip cruise from Boston. The 7-day “250th American Celebration: Stars and Stripes Sailing” on Zuiderdam will leave on July 4, 2026, and has made a special call in Norfolk, Virginia, and visited the Williamsburg Colony and Jamestown Colony.
Bob Ross’ Experience at the Minnerista Museum in Indiana
In 1887, the Ball family (the famous manufacturer of Ball Mason jars) transferred their glass manufacturing business from Buffalo, New York to Muncie, Indiana.
Today, the property is a 40-acre home Minnerista Museum and Gardens.
From 1983 to 1988, Bob Ross filmed “The Joy of Painting” in one of the properties’ houses, the studio of WIPB-TV.
Now, the house is Bob Ross’ ExperienceIt is an exhibition that includes original paintings and artifacts, as well as a restored TV studio that filmed the exhibition.
Visitors can stand on Rose on his easel and even take a painting class from certified Coach Rose.
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