Looking for a great family activity to do during your vacation in Vail?  Look no further than Saturday Afternoon Club.  Taking place right over in Lionshead each Saturday, it features all sorts of fun FREE activities plus a different theme each week. Regular activities include kids' arts and crafts, face painting, hula hoops, water balloon toss, pizza tossing competition, a gigantic inflatable obstacle course, Kids' Discovery Zone, and Raptor Rendezvous.  Raptor Rendezvous is part of the Denver-based Raptor Education Program which showcases birds of prey such as eagles,

The dog days of summer have arrived in Vail.  Now - to give you some perspective here - this means temps are in the high 80s and sometimes low 90s.  We locals think this is hot.  Our lodging guests in town from Texas, the East coast or the Midwest, think it's balmy in comparison to their hot and humid locales.  It's all a matter of perspective, isn't it?  Regardless, everyone wants to stay cool in the summertime and here are some of our favorite ways to do it in Vail:

My mom gets into town tonight for a little vacation with her daughters (we all live here) which means that I get to play tourist for the next week and a half with her.  She couldn't have picked a better time to come because there are so many wonderful, unique events going on and the weather is absolutely perfect.  It's going to be great!