BEST CHILDCARE WITH CHATURANGAS If I Was A Bird Yoga Sure, there are plenty of so- called “Mommy & Me” yoga classes, where you’re trying to manage your kindergartener and somehow downward dog at the same time. Then there’s If I Was A Bird Yoga studio, which has locations throughout the county (Liberty Station, Mission Hills, Del Mar) and offers drop-off kids’ yoga classes. You can send in your little to learn cat-cow with a very patient instructor, and then head to your own workout class. They even offer an art and yoga class for children as young as two, where you have the option of bidding your baby adieu or staying for the class. –CT ifiwasabirdyoga.com BEST WAY TO KILL TIME WITH BORED TODDLERS Ride the Blue Line Trolley to UTC When it rains in San Diego, there aren’t many options for getting little ones out of the house. You can fork over a big chunk of cash to go to one of those indoor playgrounds where your kids will inevitably pick up some new cold virus from the ball pit. You can jam yourself into the Children’s Museum or Science Center along with every other family in the city. Or you can do something completely different and hop on the new Blue Line trolley. Start at the Old Town Transit Center and ride north, where you’ll get high-up views of Mission Bay, the ocean, and all the cars and houses below. It’s sure to captivate your kiddos, and then, as an added bonus, you can get off at Westfield UTC and buy them a scoop at Hanna’s Creamery. –CT sdmts.com
BEST CLUB FOR BUDDING ARCHITECTS San Diego Library Lego Club Get this: Library branches throughout the city of San Diego have set up Lego Clubs, where they dump out mountains of bricks and let any kid who happens by make their own creation. Various branches do it slightly differently— the Point Loma/Hervey Library photographs the Lego creations and votes on winning designs, while the La Jolla/Riford Library and Allied Gardens/Benjamin Library display the colorful masterpieces in glass cases until the following week. Most Lego seshes are after school hours, making them more accessible for kids and families. And, like everything else at the library, they’re completely free. –CT sandiego.librarymarket.com
BEST PLACE TO PET A WOLF JAB Canid Education and Conservation Center It seems like this category isn’t totally fair—this nonprofit rescue in Santa Ysabel is probably the county’s only place to pet a wolf. At least the only place to pet a wolf and maintain all your fingers. The Judith A. Bassett Canid Education and Conservation Center began as an effort to protect domesticated foxes who were part of a breeding program in the Soviet Union, but has now expanded to care for coyotes, New Guinea singing dogs, fur-farm fox rescues, and a gray wolf named Lucan. Visitors can tour the center and cuddle with foxes, meet the other canids, and— if they’re lucky and Lucan’s mood is right—pet a wolf. –CT jabcecc.org
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BEST HAUNTED ’HOOD Rolando
Secret’s out: Halloween in the Rolando neighborhood just east of SDSU is beyond epic. We’re not just talking about copious amounts of candy, although there’s tons of that. Expect full-fledged haunted houses. Entire streets filled with sugar-crazed kiddos and their more-than-a-little-tipsy parents. There’s a certain house, on a certain block, that decorates with a different theme every year. Last October, it was an Aztec- inspired pyramid, complete with an active volcano and Quetzalcoatl
flying in on a zipline. You have to see it to believe it. –BD Rolando
Boulevard and Alamo Drive
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