What Is it?: The Pike is a shopping and entertainment district downtown. There are plenty of restaurants and retail stores, but there are also a lot of activities even if you don’t want to shop or eat. The ferris wheel is $4/person and the carousel is $2/person.
Tips:
- – Ride the carousel ($2/person), walk around the shopping area, and then split a movie theater popcorn with the kids and eat it at the table outside (smalls are about $6) for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.
- – You can take either the Aquabus (a water taxi that runs April to October and costs $1/person, 2 and under are free) or the Passport (a free bus) to get between here and Shoreline Village, the Long Beach aquarium, Shoreline Aquatic Park, The Queen Mary, and Rainbow Lagoon.
- – There is a brand new pedestrian bridge above downtown Long Beach to check out!
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The Pike at night outside Cinemark theaters
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The Pike carousel
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The Pike ferris wheel at night
Cost: Free
Hours: 10 am – 9 pm Mon – Sat, and 10 am – 8 pm Sunday
Stroller Friendly: Yes! Although some of the stores might be hard to navigate with larger strollers if you plan on shopping
Inside/Outside: Outside with stores/restaurants having indoor space
Alcohol: Only if you go in a bar/restaurant to eat
Parking: Yes, $1.50/every 30 min with a $24 max
Cinemark validation $8/day
Retail validation: 90 minutes free, $2 up to 3 hours, $3 up to 4 hours, $2.75 every additional half hour
There are meters off of Shoreline Dr with a 2 hour max
Active family: No
Food: You are allowed outside food and drinks and there is a grassy area you can sit down in to eat
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and are in no way affiliated with the official The Pike Outlets. The information I provided is based upon my own experience at The Pike Outlets and the hours, fees, location, and anything else is subject to change in subsequent years. Please call ahead to verify any information given before planning your trip.
What Is it?: The Pike is a shopping and entertainment district downtown. There are plenty of restaurants and retail stores, but there are also a lot of activities even if you don’t want to shop or eat. The ferris wheel is $4/person and the carousel is $2/person.
Tips:
- – Ride the carousel ($2/person), walk around the shopping area, and then split a movie theater popcorn with the kids and eat it at the table outside (smalls are about $6) for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.
- – You can take either the Aquabus (a water taxi that runs April to October and costs $1/person, 2 and under are free) or the Passport (a free bus) to get between here and Shoreline Village, the Long Beach aquarium, Shoreline Aquatic Park, The Queen Mary, and Rainbow Lagoon.
- – There is a brand new pedestrian bridge above downtown Long Beach to check out!
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The Pike at night outside Cinemark theaters
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The Pike carousel
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The Pike ferris wheel at night
Cost: Free
Hours: 10 am – 9 pm Mon – Sat, and 10 am – 8 pm Sunday
Stroller Friendly: Yes! Although some of the stores might be hard to navigate with larger strollers if you plan on shopping
Inside/Outside: Outside with stores/restaurants having indoor space
Alcohol: Only if you go in a bar/restaurant to eat
Parking: Yes, $1.50/every 30 min with a $24 max
Cinemark validation $8/day
Retail validation: 90 minutes free, $2 up to 3 hours, $3 up to 4 hours, $2.75 every additional half hour
There are meters off of Shoreline Dr with a 2 hour max
Active family: No
Food: You are allowed outside food and drinks and there is a grassy area you can sit down in to eat
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and are in no way affiliated with the official The Pike Outlets. The information I provided is based upon my own experience at The Pike Outlets and the hours, fees, location, and anything else is subject to change in subsequent years. Please call ahead to verify any information given before planning your trip.
What Is it?: The Pike is a shopping and entertainment district downtown. There are plenty of restaurants and retail stores, but there are also a lot of activities even if you don’t want to shop or eat. The ferris wheel is $4/person and the carousel is $2/person.
Tips:
- – Ride the carousel ($2/person), walk around the shopping area, and then split a movie theater popcorn with the kids and eat it at the table outside (smalls are about $6) for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.
- – You can take either the Aquabus (a water taxi that runs April to October and costs $1/person, 2 and under are free) or the Passport (a free bus) to get between here and Shoreline Village, the Long Beach aquarium, Shoreline Aquatic Park, The Queen Mary, and Rainbow Lagoon.
- – There is a brand new pedestrian bridge above downtown Long Beach to check out!
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The Pike at night outside Cinemark theaters
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-
The Pike carousel
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-
The Pike ferris wheel at night
Cost: Free
Hours: 10 am – 9 pm Mon – Sat, and 10 am – 8 pm Sunday
Stroller Friendly: Yes! Although some of the stores might be hard to navigate with larger strollers if you plan on shopping
Inside/Outside: Outside with stores/restaurants having indoor space
Alcohol: Only if you go in a bar/restaurant to eat
Parking: Yes, $1.50/every 30 min with a $24 max
Cinemark validation $8/day
Retail validation: 90 minutes free, $2 up to 3 hours, $3 up to 4 hours, $2.75 every additional half hour
There are meters off of Shoreline Dr with a 2 hour max
Active family: No
Food: You are allowed outside food and drinks and there is a grassy area you can sit down in to eat
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and are in no way affiliated with the official The Pike Outlets. The information I provided is based upon my own experience at The Pike Outlets and the hours, fees, location, and anything else is subject to change in subsequent years. Please call ahead to verify any information given before planning your trip.
What Is it?: The Pike is a shopping and entertainment district downtown. There are plenty of restaurants and retail stores, but there are also a lot of activities even if you don’t want to shop or eat. The ferris wheel is $4/person and the carousel is $2/person.
Tips:
- – Ride the carousel ($2/person), walk around the shopping area, and then split a movie theater popcorn with the kids and eat it at the table outside (smalls are about $6) for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.
- – You can take either the Aquabus (a water taxi that runs April to October and costs $1/person, 2 and under are free) or the Passport (a free bus) to get between here and Shoreline Village, the Long Beach aquarium, Shoreline Aquatic Park, The Queen Mary, and Rainbow Lagoon.
- – There is a brand new pedestrian bridge above downtown Long Beach to check out!
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-
The Pike at night outside Cinemark theaters
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-
The Pike carousel
-
-
The Pike ferris wheel at night
Cost: Free
Hours: 10 am – 9 pm Mon – Sat, and 10 am – 8 pm Sunday
Stroller Friendly: Yes! Although some of the stores might be hard to navigate with larger strollers if you plan on shopping
Inside/Outside: Outside with stores/restaurants having indoor space
Alcohol: Only if you go in a bar/restaurant to eat
Parking: Yes, $1.50/every 30 min with a $24 max
Cinemark validation $8/day
Retail validation: 90 minutes free, $2 up to 3 hours, $3 up to 4 hours, $2.75 every additional half hour
There are meters off of Shoreline Dr with a 2 hour max
Active family: No
Food: You are allowed outside food and drinks and there is a grassy area you can sit down in to eat
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and are in no way affiliated with the official The Pike Outlets. The information I provided is based upon my own experience at The Pike Outlets and the hours, fees, location, and anything else is subject to change in subsequent years. Please call ahead to verify any information given before planning your trip.
Confession time: what is something veteren moms tell you “enjoy while it lasts!” that you just don’t find yourself enjoying? For us it’s cosleeping! Every night Belles wakes around 4 to nurse so I pull her in bed with me. When she was younger (and more of a lump ?), she used to fall right back asleep and we would snuggle as she slept and I half-slept.
But lately she starts trying to climb up my body which means knees and toes in my belly and she grabs my face and neck skin (but when did I get all this extra neck skin ?) and babbles which is adorable during the day but not at 4 am…. And then I barely sleep the rest of the night and it sucks. I know some people enjoy it, and I know she won’t be little forever and I only have a small window of time to sleep with her, but lately I have started saying ENOUGH and putting her back in her crib after she’s done eating.
And you know what? She falls right back asleep and sleeps like a rock until Big Sister gets up and wakes her up. Yes, there is still a part of me that wonders if I’ll regret not taking this “opportunity” while I can, (#momguilt , amirite?), but isn’t everyone sleeping better the ultimate win? Belles wakes up rested, I wake up rested (and rested = more patient), and we have plenty of time for snuggles during the day. What is something people tell you to “enjoy” that you just don’t think you’ll miss later?
After the pants pooping, I took K downtown for some one on one time. I think potty training has been really stressing her out. We also wrote a letter to Santa ? (who of course wasn’t there but will be there almost every other day until Christmas ?.) We found a guy wearing a Santa hat working at the skating rink and I asked him if he worked for Santa while nodding YES YES YES!
He said that he did so we gave him K’s letter which said “Dear Santa, Happy Halloween. I want presents please. Little ones. I am going to poop in the potty now. And not in my pants. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Love Katie.” The original plan was to talk to Santa about using the potty but hopefully the letter will help too ?. We’re getting desperate! Then we hung out and watched the ice skaters, rode the carousel, and had her first movie theater popcorn ?!
I was hoping to call it an early night but we missed our bus and ended up walking a mile while we waited for the next one (no sense sitting at a bus station for 30 minutes.) We ended up having a pretty good walk though and then K slept until 745 today!! It’s already starting out better than yesterday!
