$2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point in August!

Just a reminder tomorrow is another $2 Tuesday at Thanksgiving Point! Plan your little excursion now!

Free National Park entrance this weekend!

Just to remind you all a little earlier than I usually do so you can plan in it- all national parks entrance fees are waived this coming weekend August 15-16! That means for Utah Parks:

Arches National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Canyonlands National Park
Capitol Reef National Park
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Hovenweep National Monument
Natural Bridges National Monument
Zion National Park

Check out Other States here.

Get out and do something for free this weekend before your summer ends!

Thanks for the typed list of parks PYP!

Salt Lake Connect Pass- Buy 1 day get one free!!!!

The Visit Salt Lake Connect Pass is the best way to gain access to Salt Lake's most famous and fascinating attractions. This summer the Connect Pass is even better — when you buy your first day, you get your 2nd day FREE!

Explore Salt Lake like never before with a 1-, 2-, or 3-day Visit Salt Lake Connect Pass. The pass is activated the first time you use it and remains active for the number of consecutive days purchased. Each pass offers:

* Clark Planetarium (good for one Star Theater and one IMAX Theater admission)
* Discovery Getaway (good for one admission)
* The Lion House Pantry Restaurant (good for one pioneer meal)
* The Living Planet Aquarium (good for one admission)
* Red Butte Garden (good for one admission)
* Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort (good for one scenic foot passenger tram ride)
* Thanksgiving Point Gardens & Museum of Ancient Life (good for one Gardens admission and one Museum of Ancient Life admission)
* This Is The Place Heritage Park (good for one admission)
* Tracy Aviary (good for one admission)
* Utah Museum of Fine Arts (good for one admission)
* Utah Museum of Natural History (good for one admission)
* Utah Olympic Park (good for one admission and one guided tour)
* Utah's Hogle Zoo (good for one admission)

The passes are good through December, but you must book your buy one get one free pass before the summer is over which is August 31st.

Salt Lake City Connect Pass information and tickets

2-day pass pricing (1 day FREE!)
$20.00 each Adults (13 to 64)
$18.00 each Seniors (65 & older)
$16.00 each Children (12 & younger)

Thanks PYP! I am so excited about this! What a steal!

$2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point in August!

I have been waiting to post about this! On Tuesdays in August Thanksgiving Point is offering an entrance fee of $2 to the Museum of Ancient Life, the Gardens or Farm Country! Normally their entrance fees are $10 0r more, so this is essentially a savings of 80% or much more!

I do hear sometimes long lines form for their dinosaur museum, so if you're interested in doing that- make sure to show up early before it opens to be one of the first to get in, but the rest of the venues weren't too crowded last year.

Farm country is where I'm going this year, as my 1 year old is just interested in saying Roar to all the animals, but the gardens are beautiful and could be a fun cheap date- especially if you bring a picnic basket and bikes- dinner and a beautiful ride around the gardens- what more could you want?

Children 2 and under are also free! I'm so excited to plan my trip there this year!

Free Family Fun Fest!

If you haven't decided what to do tonight with your family, you might want to check out this Family Fun Fest!

The Principal Financial Group is bringing a national minor league baseball festival tour to Salt Lake City tonight. And best of all, it's free! The Family Fun Fest will take place outside the main gates of Spring Mobile Ballpark before the Salt Lake Bees take on the Portland Beavers. The festival begins at 4 p.m.; the game at 7 p.m. Principal Financial says there are more than 20 attractions in the festival, including a midway with batting and pitching cages, giant slides, bounce houses and bungee runs.

Can't make it tonight? For a list of other Salt Lake Bees promotions on other nights, go here. One buy-one-get-one-free promotion is not listed on the team's site. Go here for more information.

Thanks One Cheap Chick!

Free admission to the Tracy Aviary and Red Butte Gardens today!

If you still haven't decided what to do for your Pioneer day today, check out the Tracy Aviary and Red Butte Gardens! They are both offering free admission to their parks today! I love both of these places, and you can't beat FREE!!

Taste of the Valley and Taste of Jordan Landing

The 18th annual Taste of the Valley in Provo will be on July 24th (that's TOMORROW!) from 12-3 PM. It offers area restaurants a chance to showcase their cuisine to the community. There will be 22 restaurants participating this year. Cost for this event is $10 per person or $38 for family of four. Purchase tickets at the Chamber of Commerce office (51 S. University Ave., Suite 215) at the event. I have gone to this event for the last three years, and LOVE IT! Although tickets have kept going up in price every year- $10 is now a little steep for me, but we usually bring ziplock bags and coolers because then it gives us food for a few days. You get a ticket that they punch at every booth you go to, which means you really can't eat all the samples- some of them full size samples from 22 different restaurants- so you can get the food and keep it for later when your not so stuffed. :) I absolutely love it!

I also heard they will have a Taste of Jordan Landing this year for a much better price- and it's a fundraiser for the Utah Food Bank! Win win win all around! At Jordan Landing on July 24th from 2-5 PM you can purchase tickets for the event at $5- or $3 if you bring 3 cans of food. AND children under 10 will be free with purchase of an adult ticket- even better! They will have over 15 vendors participating. The Taste of Jordan Landing will also feature craft demonstrations, games, face painting, live music and giveaways, including a drawing for an acoustic guitar. Jordan Landing is located on the west side of Bangerter Highway between 7000 and 7800 South. Fun and Fun!

Cheap Tuesdays at the Cinemark $$$ Theater!

I love Tuesdays at the dollar theater! The regular prices for the Cinemark in Provo is $1.50 during the week, and $2 on the weekends after 6PM. Still a good deal. But on Tuesdays you can get in for $1! I know that's what the dollar theater price used to be, but still it's a discount from what it is regularly now, which makes me happy. And they have the movie Disney Earth there right now, definitely one I wanted to see in the theater. I have to say I love dollar theaters. I have a hard time paying full price for a movie, or even a matinee in a regular theater, because if I can see it for $4 or $6 less- I can wait a few weeks for it to come out there. Drives me husband a little crazy, but it makes sense in my head. :)

Mondays also have a family special price of .50 a ticket for 3 or more people! And Senior day is Monday as well where you can get in for $1.

Check out if you have a Cinemark by your house and what movies are playing here.

Music Days at the Gallivan Center!

Tomorrow, July 21st from 10am-noon, come have fun with Radio Disney as they host Music Days at the Gallivan Center!

Learn to sing, play the guitar, cello, viola, or banjo and enjoy the roots of folk music. Professional musicians from Blue Sky Music Camps will introduce you to traditional Celtic, Folk, Swing and Gypsy Jazz, making it fun for all ages. Kids can create their own instruments at the YouthCity Artway's booth or see which sound is right for them at SummerHays instrument petting zoo. eBay will bring carnival games and every booth will involve kids in a clever activity. The bounce house and inflatable water slide is free for all, and Funny Girls face painters & Golden Spike Express train ride will charge a small fee for services. More info here.

Thanks Utah Deal Diva!

Free National Park entrance this weekend!

In June, the National Park Service announced three fee-free weekends at all 391 national parks this summer (of these, around 165 charge entrance fees). Well, pack up the kids in the car because this weekend (7/18-19) is one of those free weekends. Woo hoo! Have fun!

Thanks Coupon Cravings!

Free Borders Events!

Borders will be have a Sponge Bob Day of Happiness Event with games and giveaways on July 18th at 2 PM. They will also be having a Space Camp Event with space related activities on July 25th at 2 PM. As always, call first to find out if your local store is participating. Click here to find a Borders location near you.

Thanks Freebie Blogger!

Summer Pool deals for the family!

My husband and I were going to go Seven Peaks yesterday after he got off work, and we found this deal. If you bring in one 5 Buck Pizza boxtop you can get up to two passes into the park after 5 PM for $5 each. (The regular half day pass is $12 and that starts at 4 PM- but where this starts at 5 PM after the $5 pizza, and the two passes- it's still MUCH cheaper than the regular half day pass, and you have dinner for the evening, and it only starts 1 hour later, which works better for my husbands work schedule anyway.) You can get as many admissions as you have pizza boxes for the $5 price if you had a bigger family.

Like I said my husband and I WERE going to go, but then we had a friend bail on us, and we wanted to go another time when more people could go with us- so we looked at other even cheaper options. Here's what we found.

The Scera pool in Orem is usually $5 for adults, $4 for kids 4-13 and $1 for kids 1-3. At 6 PM they offer half off on their admission prices- a pretty good deal since they are open until 9PM.

Veterans pool doesn't offer any evening discounts, BUT they do let you in for FREE the last 45 minute so of the day- which is 7:15 M-Th and 5:15 Friday and Saturday.

We got our 5 buck pizza, went to the park right by Veterans Pool, played there and ate our food. (Which by the way- 5 buck pizza is REALLY good! I don't know why I had bad thoughts towards it before, but it was fantastic. You can get so many toppings on your medium pizza and it still costs $5) Then at 7 we went and changed and they let us in at 7:15. It was still hot enough that it wasn't too cold, and 45 minutes is the perfect amount of time in the water for our 1 year old. He had a lot of fun, but probably wouldn't have stayed much longer. We are definitely going to do it again- as we had so much fun- and for free!

I SPY Treasure Hunt- iDVD interactive Game

The Scholastic Store
List Price: $ 24.95
Sale- $ 2.97 (-88%)

In this fantastic game, rhyming verses prompt readers to find hidden objects in photographs. Children will love to pursue the mystery of the pirate's hidden treasure, narrowing their search with every cluttered page. (You can totally tell I wrote that myself! j/k)

Thanks PYP!

Free Family Fun Day at This is the Place State Park!

I love free activities like this! Today, Friday July 10th from 10 AM until 5 PM you can get into This is the Place State Park for free! But not only that- they are having a family fun day of it- so there will be train rides, a petting corral, pony rides, educational crafts, an art garden, a magic show, carnival games, pioneer demonstrations and possibly even a square dance. It sounds so fun! For more information go here.

Thanks PYP!

Classic Fun Center in Sandy $2 Tuesday nights!

If you need a great water activity to take the kids to- you might want to consider the Classic Fun Center in Sandy either tonight for their $2 Tuesday nights- or Mondays for their $10 family nights! They have four waterslides to go down, a really fun kiddie pool, and two inflatable slides. I hear it isn't very crowded either!

They also have $1 skating on Thursdays- so take the kids and go have a blast there!

Thanks PYP!

Free admission to Utah Museum of Natural History TODAY!

On Monday, 7/6 the Utah Museum of Natural History is having another FREE admission day! Be sure to check out the super cool Toadally Frogs exhibit! Go here for more info. SWEET! I love these freebie days!

Thanks Utah Deal Diva!

Free concert tonight!

Free Concert in the Park tonight at the Brigham Young Historic Park (located on the southeast corner of State Street and 2nd Avenue/North Temple, one block east of Temple Square).

It's a Broadway Hits concert- and I actually know some of the performers that will be there- and they said it will be FANTASTIC- you won't want to miss it! And for free- how can you beat it for a fun summer activity.

Enjoy!

Check out the rest of the concerts in the park for June, July, and August here.

2 for 1 at Discovery Gateway!

Discovery Gateway Children's Museum is offering a 2 for 1 admission with this printable coupon. This is such a fun place to take kids of all ages! And with this coupon it will definitely be worth it to go there. General Admission is $8.50, but it says pre-registered groups can get in for $7.50. Children under 1 are free- and to get hours and location information check here.

Thanks PYP!

Borders 40% off one item and FREE beverage!

Borders has been rolling out some great coupons lately and here is yet another: Save 40% off the list price of one item. This coupon is only valid through 6/21, so definitely hurry on over to Borders to make some use out of it.

Also, don't forget to snag your FREE 12-oz. Beverage from Seattle's Best coffee (located inside Borders)! This coupon expires on 6/25/09 and NO other purchase is required!

Thanks Hip2Save!

Free Water Day at the Gallivan center and Broadway concert next Tuesday!

Bring your swimsuits, towels and super soakers to the Gallivan Center next Tuesday and join the rest of us for a Disney Day treat: WATER DAY! Slide down the inflatable Ninja water slide, create a "Magic Underwater Adventure Painting" with Youth City, splish splash with the Radio Disney Roadcrew, and if you are still not wet- SLC's Fire Department will be happy to spray you down with a HUGE firehose.

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, June 23rd from 10am- noon, Gallivan Center, 239 S Main St, SLC

You can get more details here.

Thanks Utah Deal Diva!

AND- there is a free concert of Broadway showtunes in the park that same night at the Brigham Young Historic Park on the southeast corner of State Street and 2nd Avenue (North Temple), one block east of Temple Square. I hear this is one of the concerts you won't want to miss! Go here for a full listing of concerts in June, July, and August.