Fun Stuff Blog Posts
A Few Reasons to Discover a Family Art Adventure
1) Your kids are open books, blank slates soaking up new ideas. Why not expose them to a new way of seeing the world around them? They might already love to draw and paint, or they might never have thought of it before; isn’t this an important thing to learn? And have fun in Costa…
Art in Adventure
Does the fresh smell of spring and the renewed warmth of the sun ever make you think of poetry? Did you know Billy Collins (two time Poet Laureate) is Smithsonian’s poetry consultant? In a recent posting in the Arts and Culture section of their online magazine, Billy Collins wrote a wonderful poem (below) describing a…
The Amazing Kenedy
This year the Children’s Cancer Fund created a special Inspiration Book to help support pediatric cancer research. We are so proud to share with you the artwork of our friend Kenedy. Now a seventh grader, Kenedy says her drawing is about her safari hunt for butterflies on her Thomson Family Adventure to Panama. It was…
The Grey Whales of Baja
Whether you spell it grey or gray, these whales are mighty interesting. Descended from filter feeding whales that developed over 30 million years ago (30 MILLION!!), grey whales consume ocean worms and crustaceans from the ocean floor and filtered through their baleen. Growing to 50+ feet long, and weighing as much as 80,000 pounds they…
Meet an Ethologist Turned Photographer
Stewart Halperin is the renowned photographer co-leading our Galapagos: Vision and Evolution adventure June 15, 2012. Since you might not know what an ethologist is, or why one would become a photographer, we thought a casual Q&A would be fun. Stewart, where are you from? I was born in New Jersey but moved to…