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| a year ago exactly Palmer Museum & Visitors Center |
I know I've mentioned all this before, but I'm reminded of it every spring and summer when I spend hours and hours every week just hanging out in downtown Palmer. It's the kind of downtown where you can just walk and walk and run into friends and chat and eat ice cream and walk some more. There is wide open spaces and parks are everywhere meaning it's very kid friendly as well.
One of our favorite places to visit when we're walking around town is the Palmer Museum & Visitors Center across from the Library, specifically the gardens there. There is just this little enclosed area filled with rows and rows of flowers and vegetables and rock gardens and flowering trees and it's just gorgeous. I love that I can stroll at a leisurely pace around the beds, taking in all the beauty around me without having to watch Riggs too closely. He loves walking 'around and around' (as he says) through all the beds and especially loves watching the bees that congregate in mass numbers on all the flowering shrubs and trees.
If you live in the Valley and especially Palmer I highly suggest a visit, and while you're there be sure to stroll around and enjoy the lovely atmosphere of downtown Palmer. I find that when I need to get out of the house and don't know what to do, it's always a great idea to just go downtown, park and wander around. It's always enjoyable plus there's plenty of coffee shops and bakery's and even gelato for when you get hungry (or need to keep a toddler happy ha).
I'll leave you with this bathroom selfie I took at the visitors center just because. I swear I look in the mirror and still get surprised to see that big belly!
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| PS: if you live in Anchorage and want to enjoy some fun garden time with the kids be sure to visit the Alaska Botanical Gardens this weekend for the Boreal Garden & Arts Fest! |
We have never been there! It looks so beautiful. Have you guys been to the botanical gardens in Anchorage? They are amazing...its big so my boys get tired out just walking around and "swelling" all the flowers! haha
ReplyDeleteI think I would like to stroll there too.
ReplyDeletePalmer really does sound so perfect. Alex and I have been talking about finding our settle down place (we're only planning on staying in NYC until he can get a degree). The other night he said, 'What about Alaska?' . . . and I was floored. He hates Winter more than I hate Winter. But we started to describe the place we were looking for and it sounds just like the little place you guys live. Lol. I never in a million years thought he would have suggested Alaska. In the end, we're still not sure, but I thought it was funny.
ReplyDeleteIt's small but very lovely Kelsey! I've been to the botanical gardens but it was before Riggs! I should visit with him, I'm sure he'd love it! And haha at the "swelling" I just love little voices so much! :)
ReplyDeleteYou would!!
ReplyDeleteWe truly love it Andrea! I bet you'd be surprised at how much you liked Alaska. The winters are long but there is so much to do and just getting outside everyday helps so much. It would be pretty hilarious though if you moved from NYC to a teeny town in Alaska ;)
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