• Kids young and old can spin the wheel at Polly Ann's to pick a frozen flavor treat from the wide selection of ice-creams including honeydew, mango and bumpy freeway (they're more inventive and chunky rendition of rocky road.)
• Remember watching the film Big with Tom Hanks making a wish from that vintage carnival mechanized fortune teller? Now imagine an entire experience chock full of period style oddities just like it, and you've got Musee Mechanique. Yes, there are some kind of weird clowns and other things. But really, it's so much fun you shouldn't miss it.
• Ice-skating and bowling or just a spin on the merry-go-round — downtown's Yerba Buena Gardens has treats for the kid in all of us.