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Thanks to all who entered our latest giveaway.  We are sending 10 of you (and 3 of your family and/or friends!) to Union Station’s City Stage TOMORROW morning, Thursday October 28^th at 10 am!  The tickets are good for this date and time only.

You will be seeing Theatre for Young America’s “The Dinosaur Play” — thanks to our friends at Union Station. Winners– be looking for an email from me with details.  Congratulations!

• Laura
• Daryl M
• Linda Morgan
• Bridget
• Celinda Hodges
• Mike
• Michaela
• Dria
• BJ
• Shannon Flaggard

Something for you to discover at Kansas City’s Union Station:  City Stage.  TYA (Theatre for Young America) just launched their 2010-2011 season with “The Dinosaur Play” and you can catch it now thru November 6, 2010.  Our friends at Union Station have been generous enough to give us 10 sets of four passes to an upcoming performance of “The Dinosaur Play” –on Thursday October 28^th at 10 a.m.  The tickets are good for this date and time only.  Enter by leaving a comment below:  WHAT HALLOWEEN COSTUMES WILL YOUR KIDS BE WEARING THIS YEAR??

This audience-participation play takes its young audience back to a world millions and millions of years ago into the last age of the dinosaurs. In front of the young audience is a magnificent dinosaur egg, gently tapping out a call for help. Banding together, the children work to interpret what the egg is saying and help it hatch. Soon Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex join the action, and a great mystery-adventure is set in motion.

If you were able to take your kids to see “Dinosaurs Unearthed”– what a great tie-in!  If you didn’t get to the exhibit yet, no worries. It’s been extended until January 9, 2011!  If you’d like to see some pictures, a video and a recounting of our exhibit sneak peak, click here!

You have until 6am Wednesday morning (October 27, 2010) to enter. Randomly-selected winners (all 10!) will be announced by 9am on Wednesday.  Good luck!  You can click here to go directly to the ticket purchasing site for the performance, too.

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Must be 21 years of age to enter and win.  Only one entry per household will be considered. No substitutions or transfers. Giveaway prize is not redeemable for cash.  By entering, winner consents to allow the use of his/her name for promotional purposes without further compensation. Winner releases all sponsors of liability regarding use and enjoyment of the prize. No purchase necessary to enter or win.

I’ve written before about one of our favorite KC field trips–going to KC’s Waldo neighborhood (75th and Wornall) and hopping the Metro’s MAX bus for Crown Center/Union Station.  It makes for an excellent adventure, and many lessons to be learned:  the art of conserving gas and helping the environment by taking public transportation, not to mention the life skill of getting oneself from point A to point B by reading maps and following a bus schedule!

Another public transit trip has been brought to my attention– and this one is great for all you Johnson Countians.  Did you know that you can take “The JO” (Johnson County’s public commuter bus system) all the way to Union Station?  You could plan a half-day trip and check out Dinosaurs Unearthed–or Kaleidoscope– and save yourself the gas money while you’re at it!!

Route “M” (Midday) is your key to taking half-day trips to and from points in Kansas City from Johnson County, KS.  There are several major park-and-ride locations in Johnson County on the way to Crown Center, Union Station and downtown Kansas City.  These are: Great Mall of the Great Plains (151st Street at I-35), Downtown Olathe, Johnson County Community College (College Blvd at Quivira), Oak Park Mall (95th Street at Quivira), Metcalf South Shopping Center (95th Street at Metcalf), and the Transit Center at 6000 Lamar in Mission, KS.

From any of these locations, you can take a morning commuter bus to Union Station and return via Route M (leaving from Union Station shortly after 1pm), or take Route M to Union Station and return on one of the afternoon commuter routes.

Regular fare on The JO is $2.00 for adults, $1.50 for kids 6-17, and free for kids 5 and under.  For extra adventure, you can transfer from The JO to MAX or another Metro bus to visit other attractions up and down the MAX corridor stretching from Waldo on the south to Downtown and River Market on the north.  Your JO driver can give you a transfer good for 2 hours on any Metro route.  For your return, pay the regular fare on the Metro ($1.50 for adults, 75 cents for kids 6-17) and get a transfer that’s good on The JO. Here’s a summary schedule of some of the buses you can take in combination with Route M (note that it’s on 24-hour clock time!)