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12/28/2025

In honor of my beautiful home state of Kansas, here is a short list of some of our very favorite places that I think everyone should see in their lifetime.

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✨ The Flint Hills
✨ Wilson Lake, Sylvan Grove
✨ Keeper of the Plains, Wichita
✨ Castle Rock, Quinter
✨ Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
✨ Elk City State Park, Independence
✨ Monument Rock, Oakley
✨ Coronado Heights, Lindsborg
✨ Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, Oakley
✨ Tunnel of trees, Wichita
✨ Rock City, Minneapolis
✨ Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, McPherson
✨ Mushroom Rock State Park, Marquette
✨ Train ride on the Smoky Valley Railroad, Abilene

Planning a trip to Chicago with kids? There are so many fun things to do in this amazing city! We spent 4 days here last...
12/15/2025

Planning a trip to Chicago with kids? There are so many fun things to do in this amazing city! We spent 4 days here last summer and it was by far one of our favorite family vacations we have done.

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🏨 Where we stayed: Hyatt Regency Chicago

🚏 We took the buses and L train everywhere, and had no need for our car once we arrived!

What to do:
🌿 Lincoln Park Conservatory
🦁 Lincoln Park Zoo
πŸ¦– Field Museum
🐳 Shedd Aquarium
πŸ–οΈ Ohio Street Beach
🍦 Museum of Ice Cream
πŸ› Maggie Daley Park
🎑 Millenium Park
⛴️ Architecture Boat Tour (we did the 45 minute one with Wendella)
πŸ”­ Museum of Science and Industry
πŸ›οΈ Shopping at Water Place Tower
Lincoln Park Nature Boardwalk
πŸ¦‹ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
⛲️ Take a stroll along Lake Shore Drive to Grant Park to see Buckingham Fountain

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