when growing up if we were obnoxious about being bored we'd find ourselves cleaning the garage or something.
Last year was rough this time of year w/ DD bored to tears in school. We live in a state that is not one of the bigger ones but fairly diverse in its regions. During spring break we drove about 3 hours to stay in a different region, went to museums having cool kid workshops, DD met some other funky kids (to realize there are others out there) swam in the hotel pool, got very interested in history (which is often overlooked but pretty cool) and the history thing has stuck with her as an interest.
We live close to Canada also and it's always fun to go there - two languages, DD gets distracted and entertained by the French and different cartoons at the hotel.
Minecraft can be slightly addicting but it's really cool and she learns to much about building and things. If they have Minecraft t-shirts the kids can "find" each other in a crowd. : - )
