Fun Vacation Spots for Kids

Looking to go with your kids on a holiday? Here are some great ideas about where to go to have the most fun.

If the focus of the holiday is the kids, you can't go wrong with Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of the most visited and popular recreational parks in the world, It consists of two theme parks, two water parks, twenty tree hotels and all kinds of restaurants and rides. The kids get to meet their favorite cartoon and fairy tale characters as well.

If your kids like chocolate then take them to Hersheypark. It's also called Chocolate Town U.S.A. this is an enormous theme park with over sixty rides. It is famed for it's exciting roller coasters. The attractions include live concerts, dramatic presentations, family rides and water rides.

Another great place is Old Orchard Beach in Saco, Main. This is a real beach with white sands and a boardwalk bordered with amusement park rides, carnival games and junk food stands.

Yet another place to go is the Snowbird Resort in Snowbird, Utah. This is a great place for snow bunnies to go to enjoy snowboarding, skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating and snow tubing. There are also special ski camps here to help teach your kids that basics.

Treehousee Treesort in Takilma Oregano is a forest with amazing tree houses. The houses are located in 18 foot high houses. There are also wooden swings, forts, climbing platforms and swinging bridges. There is also a 160 foot long zip-line rope course. The resort also has a campsite and a fresh water swimming pool.

Another great place to go is Yellowstone Provincial Park. There is great camping in the area and many spring fed lakes that you can swim in. Of course the main attraction is the geysers, and in particular, Old Faithful that spouts every few minutes.

Another great place to take the kids is across the border up north into Canada to enjoy Niagara Falls. You can get a ride on the famous Maid of the Mist, go to Marine land Niagara to enjoy the marine life and also take a walk up Clifton Hill where the Ripley's Believe it Or Not and the Wax Museum are. Downstream there is the Wild Water Walk, the Butterfly Museum and the whirlpool. You can ride cable cars across the whirlpool to get a great view of the entire Niagara river system.

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How to Place An Ad for a Babysitter

The ideal place for you to post an ad that says 'Babysitter Wanted' or 'Looking for A Babysitter' is on a local community group forum or email list in your neighborhood. If this is not possible you should then consider placing an ad in your local newspaper,

Placing an ad in a newspaper is very straightforward but you want to keep it simple in order to keep costs down. Think quite simply of creating an ad that reads like the following sample –

Part Time Baby Sitter Wanted
Weekends and Evenings
River Heights Area
342-555-5555/647-000-5555
MrsWonderful@gmail.com
However before you go to the expense or the trouble of advertising anywhere on the internet to sell these books you should check out Craigslist. Craigslist is available in Canada and the United States and is the number one place to find babysitters looking for work.

To access the babysitter ads on Craigslist go to Craigslist.com and find your city. Click on it to go to your local Craigslist website. Under the “Community” heading, you should then click on the “Childcare.” On this page you’ll find listings for babysitters and nannies, or you can post a help wanted ad of your own.

However before you go to the trouble of posting your own it is always a good idea to browse through all of the nanny ads and see if any of them look promising. If they don't you can always write and post your own ad.

Keep your advertisement simple and short. You do not have to be as brief as when posting a classified ad. You can put more of your personality and requirements into the copy. Many of the ads on Craigslist are quite chatty and casual. Be sure to include the ages of your children, a description of the hours needed, the rate you want to pay, a description of the duties required and other necessary information. For instance, if you do not want a babysitter stepping outside to enjoy a smoke on your dime then it is fine to say so in the ad.

Never include any personally identifying information in any kind of ad on Craigslist. Your email and phone number is all they need to know. The beauty of using Craigslist is that you can use a blind ad that forwards into a Craigslist mailbox that keeps your email address concealed from everyone.

Once you get responses back through your email you can start phoning candidates and screening for them. Make sure you get at least three references and follow up on them!

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