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Field Trip Fest 2019 Destinations Field Trip Fest 2019 Destinations WEDNESDAY Please complete the Parent Packet including 9am - 4:30pm waivers for Skyzone and Jump Island and return Jump Island Brighton, MI them to our office or email them to kzooparks@ Jump Island is an inflatable water park full of high energy kalamazoocity.org by August 9th. Parent Packets that allows you to run, jump, and slide through beaches, are available at kzooparks.org/fieldtripfest lakes, and rivers. the ultimate inflatable water park and obstacle course challenges. Featuring the 14” Inflatable Iceberg, 16 ft. Inflatable slides, and runways that give you MONDAY the ability to balance/walk/run/slide on water. 9am - 12pm • Every kid has to wear a lifejacket, which is provided • Lifeguards at every inflatable and 7-9 extra Art Bayou waterfront staff. Field trippers will get some background look into how a • 45 Minutes of jump/play time, 10- minute rest/ 45 kiln works, cover some artistic color techniques, and use minute jump/play time/10 minute rest/ 45 minute their own creative skills to design and decorate their own jump/play time/ Depart for home. Field Trip Fest 2019 cup to keep. Completed product will be given out to campers on Friday. THURSDAY Radisson Tour Mooville 10am - 12pm Get a behind the scenes look at how some of the Your family fun destination for old-fashioned down-on- restaurants inside the Radisson operate, see the day to the-farm fun, freshness and ice cream parlor. See our day operations of running Kalamazoo’s largest hotel, and dairy farm in operation and watch as we turn farm-fresh see two of the high-end rooms where the big stars stay milk into delicious dairy products you can take home. when they come to Kalamazoo. MOO-Ville also has a petting zoo and farm toys in our play yard. 1:30pm - 3:30pm Skyzone • Field Trippers will get a free ice cream cone, other ice Skyzone Indoor Trampoline Park consists of several cream and treats will be available for purchase. trampoline courts, which are arrays of trampolines placed horizontally and surrounded by trampolines placed at Binder Park Zoo 12:30pm - 3:30pm, back by 4pm angles that serve as the court’s walls. Binder Park Zoo is one of the largest zoos in Michigan, and features a large array of animals and plants, including • Bring your Skyzone socks if have them or you will get them when you arrive various popular zoo animals such as a polar bear, a tiger, and a bronco. Wild Africa Exhibit is a permanent exhibit featuring giraffes, zebras, ostriches, stork, and antelope. TUESDAY 9am - 4pm FRIDAY Roto Kiwan Boy Scout Reservation 9am - 8pm Rota-Kiwan focuses on theme based activity areas Michigan’s Adventure Muskegon, MI include aquatics (kayak, canoeing, and lake front, Michigan’s Adventure has 53 rides The park also includes shooting sports (rifle, archery, sling shot) outdoor living an outdoor water park, WildWater Adventure. The park skills(fishing, camping skills), a fine arts area, human is headlined by seven roller coasters, including Shivering foosball, 10 foot high/ 40 foot long climbing wall, and Timbers, a wooden coaster, and a suspended looping many other opportunities. coaster, Thunderhawk..
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