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...business trips that include a child are often extended to a family weekend, kids in tow are a financial boon to hotels, and the competition for these tiny travelers is fierce. The Milwaukee, Wis., Hilton is adding a $40 million water theme park. Holiday Inns offer kid suites with bunk beds and Sony PlayStations, and the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver gives kids a taste of what their parents do with a "junior-executive" program...
Tuition for adults is $320 a week, and the children's fee is a mere $85. Grown-ups pay $240 for food and dorm housing, and children can bunk with parents for free (call 828-298-3434, or visit www.swangathering.org for more information). Youngsters have breakfast and lunch with their parents and spend most of the day with children's program leader Denisa Rullmoss and her assistants. Kids visit a nearby nature center, explore the creeks and woods in the surrounding area, make candles, learn songs and play several kinds of instruments. They are not only exposed to a variety...
...gain proficiency in gun marksmanship, and her coffee table contains flashy fliers from Schneider, Swift and Werner, some of the largest trucking firms in the U.S. She will enroll in a truck driving schooling program this summer to prepare for the intricacies of the professionoranging from familiarity with the bunk bed setup in many modern cabs and the new technology that has infected even this industry...
McCain's campaign has also set up space for volunteers to bunk, and McCain supporters at Harvard said they will have students in the state throughout the week...
...computers writing about Proust. Maybe we'd like to be bathing with mermaids, chilling with the Hephalumps. These rooms serve as relaxation theme parks, like the fantasy worlds we created for ourselves under our blankets in the corners of first grade playgrounds. These elaborate flowing waterfalls and bunk bed caves are just modern forts, little escapes from the coldness of mass-produced furniture and rationally-distributed wall putty...