Season passes..

We are all about some staycations! We have memberships for the year to the Little Rock Zoo, Silver Dollar City and Mid America Museum. Here's my arguments on how they've saved, will save, us a fortune:)

Little Rock Zoo sold their memberships for 1/2 off last November (I believe it was November). Zoo membership is normally $85/family and we were able to purchase our for $42.50. It would actually cost us over $45 just to go to the zoo one time so it's well worth it, especially when they are discounted. Not only can you go to the LR zoo, you can also go to a lot of other zoos for free or 1/2 off. The Memphis zoo is not too far away and we get 1/2 off admission there. It's a wonderful zoo and the kids love it!

We purchased Silver Dollar City passes this year for the first time. We actually just bought passes for Cam and I and used the 2 free bring a friends to bring the kids with us. We were able to upgrade those to season passes, which really you're not suppose to do that but the lady didn't know and we were clueless it was against their policy until reading it later somewhere. So we spent probably $225 for all of us to have season passes at SDC. We've gone several times this year. The boys love it! Season pass holders get a lot of discounts to different things around Branson which has also come in handy. Honestly, I know lots of people spend tons of money going to Disney World but to us right now we'd rather visit SDC often instead of just a one time trip.

This weekend I purchased a family membership to Mid America Museum in Hot Springs for $65. The boys LOVE science museums. We could literally spend days looking at everything. The reason I decided to purchase season passes was b/c with a membership there, you virtually have a membership at any science museum. This summer, we went to a children's museum in Fort Worth and loved it! We could go back for free now. We can also go to the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock (about 40 minutes away) for free with this membership. I'm sure we'll use this pass numerous times before it expires August of next year.

So for about $350, we've been able to have so much fun with our family of 5. I'm sure it'll be a long time before we're taking any lavish vacations but who needs 'em when you can have fun all year long?