Free Pinkberry and stagecoach rides in Birmingham, AL

If you live in Birmingham, this post is for you. These are special insider tips from the people who know (which is not me, by the way). Seriously, you are going to want to know this!

First, Thursday, October 20th, is Relax By the Tracks at Railroad Park at 5 p.m. There will be music, family-friendly atmosphere, lots of space for kids to play and ride bikes, Rocky 3 at 8 p.m., and free Pinkberry frozen yogurt! Spread the word to your friends. Every time I go to these events, I am so happy I went. The kids have an amazing time and are ready to hit the sack right when we get home. Sweet relief. And did I mention free frozen yogurt from Pinkberry because that junk is delicious.

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Second, Saturday, October 15th, at the Birmingham Zoo, Wells Fargo will provide free stagecoach rides from noon to 3 p.m. This is in conjunction with a healthy donation they are making to the zoo. Go, zoo! And banks too.

I'm pretty sure this is an accurate representation of the rides on Saturday.

Read to earn tickets to Alabama Adventure

If you live in the Birmingham area, check out the Vestavia Library in the Forest's summer reading program. We went today and picked up bags (with lots of coupons for freebies in town) and got the low-down on the reading program. For every 50 pages you read, you get a ticket. You can combine tickets to earn prizes that are worth between 2 and 15 tickets. The best part of the program is that if you read 300 pages, you get a ticket to Alabama Adventure in Bessemer. So fun! I couldn't find any info for this reading program on their site, but they may be updating at some point. And the part about the park tickets wasn't listed on the materials we got, so I don't know if they have a limited supply or what. Question mark. If you go and get any more/new/different info, let me know, but for now, my kids are super stoked about going to the closest thing to Disney World in Alabama.

Free summer movies at Regal

My kids love these! We'll see how they work with one-year-old twins. Here's the link for more info.

Gainesville Cinema 14
3101 SW 35th Blvd.
Gainesville ,FL 32608
352-336-0414

06/15/2010-06/17/2010 Trumpet Of The Swan (G)
Hotel For Dogs (PG)

06/22/2010-06/24/2010 Tale of Despereaux (G)
Astro Boy (PG)

06/29/2010-07/01/2010 Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (G)
The Spy Next Door (PG)

07/06/2010-07/08/2010 Wallace and Gromit (G)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (PG)

07/13/2010-07/15/2010 All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (G)
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (PG)

07/20/2010-07/22/2010 ARCTIC TALE (G)
Planet 51 (PG)

07/27/2010-07/29/2010 Doogal (G)
Alvin And The Chipmunks Squeakquel (PG)

08/03/2010-08/05/2010 Charlotte's Web (G)
Monsters Vs. Aliens (PG)

08/10/2010-08/12/2010 Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (G)
Night At The Museum II (PG)

Free Splash Park

If you live in Gainesville, you have to check out the free splash park in Alachua. It's perfect for the little ones who can't swim. They have the joy of splashing around in water without the risk involved with pools. Which risk is magnified for me as I will be trying to take four kids to the pool this summer. Two average swimmers and two fearless non-swimmers. It's open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and it's at the Alachua Rec Center. If you want to go one day, call me!

Two free bowling games per day

May through September, you can sign up for two free games of bowling per day (at Alley Katz in Gainesville, but other locations nationwide). Shoe rental is not free.

Thanks, Lisa L.!

$1.99 Happy Meals on Tuesday and Thursday

I recently saw a commercial listing this deal. It didn't give an expiration date or specific locations, so I'm assuming it's everywhere and until they randomly decide to be done. Their web site didn't list info on the sale. So try at your own risk, but if it works out, you might have some happy kids along with their happy meals.