- $2 Tuesdays, grab a beer or a popcorn for $2.00.
- Winedown Wednesdays: $5 glass of wine
- Free Car Wash Friday: If the Tides have a clean inning, each person will receive a free car wash at Green Clean Express Auto Wash
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REACH: Big Free Bookstore
The Big Free Bookstore has a new location at Janaf Shopping Yard. Visitors can come twice a week and get two free new books and two free used books at each visit.
It's not a scam, REACH, which stands for Reading Enriches All Children, knows the impact that covid had on our community. They set up the bookstore so that people had books and literature, no matter what. The books range from baby books to adult contemporary. I loved that there was representation of different cultures and religions.
The bookstore is funded by donations, the community, corporate partnerships, and grants. They also have programs for stocking daycares and classroom libraries for teachers. Take your kiddos by and check it out!
Current Exhibits in Hampton Roads
Checkout these current exhibits around Hampton Roads! I love taking kids to traveling exhibits because there is always something new to learn!
Nauticus: Game Changers
The Children' Museum of Virginia: Storyland: The tale of Peter Rabbit, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and more.
The Chrysler Museum: Facing Ourselves: Mike Disfarmer and the American Portrait
The Barry Art Museum: The Great Exhibition: Bebes At the Barry: French dolls from the nineteenth century.
The Hermitage Museum: Egyptomania- Egyptian styles of art including sculptures, paintings, jewelry, costumes, and furniture.
The Virginia Living Museum: Mazes and Brain Games
The Virginia Aquarium: Discover Steampunk
The Charles H Taylor Visual Arts Center: Hampton Arts League Member Exhibition and From the sea to the Stars
Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center: Youth Art Exhibit
Hampton History Museum: Teetotalers and Moonshiners, and Hampton's Prohibition Story
Portsmouth Colored Community Library: Rooting for the Hometeam- Portsmouth's Black Baseball Players, Promotors, and Parks
Storyland: Children's Museum of Virginia
Open now until May 7th, you can visit Storyland at the Children's Museum of Virginia. The exhibit lets children play inside of popular story books such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Activities include matching, search and find, imaginative play, prereading strategies, letter recognition, rhyming, and more.
As always, when visiting the Children's Museum, be sure to check out their planetarium shows, STEM lab, and make it take it art room.
Nauticus: Game Changers Exhibition
Open now until April 30th, Game Changers Exhibition is the new traveling exhibit at Nauticus. Visitors can discover how video games have progressed and changed over time, while playing some favorite games of the past. Over 120 of the most influential games, including some of our absolute favorites are in the exhibit. Play 16 games like Pac-Man, Mario, and Guitar Hero.
Test your knowledge, and match popular video game soundbites to their game, step inside a game and see yourself as a game character, or play Tetris on a giant gameboy.
As a note, much of the second floor of Nauticus is closed for renovations. You can still play with the magnetic fish, jump around on the floor projector, play in "Our Mighty Seaport", and go aboard the Battleship Wisconsin. The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is also open (and free) on the second floor.
Tickets are $15.95 for adults or $11.50 for children. Children 3 and under are always free.