WIN Dinner For 4 and a Free Ticket to Ride Download On Steam ($58) Via Old Country Buffet, Ryan’s, Hometown Buffet, Country Buffet – and Furr’s Fresh Buffet

Ticket to Ride Launches at Ovation Brands’ restaurants and Furr’s Fresh Buffet locations

Here at ChiIL Mama, we're pleased to partner up on a sponsored post with Ovation Brands. They're providing one of our lucky readers with Complimentary Dinner For 4 and a Free Ticket to Ride Game Download (Approximate value up to $58). Enter at the bottom of this post through midnight on June 12th, 2018. Open nationwide anywhere there's an Old Country Buffet, Ryan’s, Hometown Buffet, Country Buffet or Furr’s Fresh Buffet.

Ovation Brands’ restaurants and Furr’s Fresh Buffet are running a new Family Night promotion featuring the popular game, Ticket to Ride. This board game, which is also digitally available, can be learned in under 15 minutes while providing players with intense strategic and tactical decisions every turn. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route. 

Each Thursday, from May 17th through June 21st between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., kids may participate in different interactive and educational activities at Old Country Buffet, Ryan’s, Hometown Buffet, Country Buffet – and Furr’s Fresh Buffet locations. PLUS kids eat for $1.99 from 4 p.m. to close with the purchase of a regular-priced adult or senior meal.

The featured activities are as follows:
May 17 – Let’s Get On Track!
May 24 – Signs of the Times
May 31 – Take the Express Route to Fun
June 7 – Great Destinations!
June 14 – Connect the THOUGHTS
June 21 – Follow the Engineer

ENTER HERE  

Enter here for your chance to WIN a special prize pack (Up to $58 Value)

Prize includes the following: four (4) free meal passes for you and your family to enjoy a meal at any of Ovation Brands’ locations as well as one (1) Ticket to Ride Digital Game Download Code. Enter through midnight June 12, 2018. One of ChiIL Mama's lucky readers will win. 

Disclosure: Thanks to Ovation Brands for partnering with on this sponsored post and providing us with meal passes and game tickets for our winner and for review purposes. As always, all opinions are my own.

Chicago Robot Camp and Dynamic Art Camp 55% Discounts at ROBOTS-4-U Summer Camps

Disclosure: I am pleased to partner up with ROBOTS-4-U Summer Camps through the US Family Blogger network. I have been compensated for sharing this information and discount with my readers. As always, all opinions are my own.

**ChiIL Mama's READERS RECEIVE 55% Off Robotics Science Summer Camps! Code: USF1550r www.ROBOTS-4-U.com @usfg #robots4u**

Looking for a camp that embraces 

S.T.E.A.M. education: 

Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math?

Summer learning can be fun. At ROBOTS-4-U, campers have a BLAST, while learning and playing in a dynamic environment. Want to see your kids learning about Robotics and Science, in an independent and exciting way? Check out this cool summer day camp.

ROBOTS-4-U is for Girls and Boys - Aged 7 to 14. Robot Camps and Dynamic Art Camps are offered during June, July and August. Camps run Monday to Friday from 9:00-11:30a.m. and 12:30-3:00 p.m. 

LOW CAMPERS RATIO-- 1 Instructor to 16 participants

Register early as camps do fill up quickly!

Hands on Learning, Self-Paced. Beginners to Expert!

Each Camper Individually uses a ROBOTICS or DYNAMIC ART Kit. Robot kits do not go home with campers but are available for purchase!

Visit www.ROBOTS-4-U.com to see dates and locations for these day camps.

Disclosure: I am pleased to partner up with ROBOTS-4-U Summer Camps through the US Family Blogger network. I have been compensated for sharing this information and discount with my readers. As always, all opinions are my own.

At Netflix Girls Rule and Smart is Cool on Project Mc2 #StreamTeam

All-new Netflix 
original series Project Mc² 

Here at ChiIL Mama, we're all about smart girls, STEM and STEAM. I have a 12 year old daughter entering an IB (International Baccalaureate) Academic Center honors program for junior high this fall, so we know smart girls rock. We're so excited that Netflix has a new mystery series where smart IS the new cool. My daughter and I have watched all the episodes out so far and it's a hit!

Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is a proud member of the Netflix Stream Team. We've been compensated for sharing monthly posts with our readers.  As always, all opinions are our own. ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama next month, for more Netflix fun in Chi, IL and beyond!

This month our Netflix Stream Team Theme is: The Final Countdown/ Back to School

Many of our friends and readers have already send their kids back to school, with fresh supplies and Pinterest worthy, clever grade signage for those BTS photos. Here, we are truly in the final count down. My kids start a week from today, the Tuesday after Labor Day. In the meantime, we're still enjoying the final days of summer by playing outdoors, relaxing with our new 2 month old Husky/Malamute puppy, Howl (named for the Miyazaki anime movie, Howl's Moving Castle), and watching Netflix. 

We quite excited about the brand new Project Mc² Netflix Original Series, that premiered on Aug. 7, for older tweens. 

It's girl powered mystery solving like Nancy Drew and her friends from waaay back in the day, plus modern gadgets, STEM skills, fashion, a multi culti cast, and a ton of brainy fun. It proves smart is the hottest BTS trend. The show features four supercool teen spies who show how girls can use their science smarts and math problem-solving skills to save the world. 

Check back with ChiIL Mama early and often. We'll have lots more photo filled Project Mc² features in the coming month. Thanks to Netflix for sending us a fabulously fun Stream Team box of Project Mc² goodies, experiments and more, including a Project Mc2 McKeyla McAlister Doll & DIY Lava Lamp kit ($25.00 value) we'll be giving away shortly to one lucky reader!

Sure, summer's been fun, but the summer slump is real. Netflix is ready to help. We've got some awesome educational Netflix TV shows and movies for a variety of ages listed below to get you started. Whether your kids are going back after Labor Day, like mine, or they're already into the first days of a new school year, families can get kids back to firing up those brain cells, while having so much fun they won't realize they're learning. We got sucked in to Project Mc2 and binge watched the first season. These girls are brainy and beautiful. And they're poised to make science and math skills super cool.

The days of smart girls dumbing it down to fit in are over. Bullies beware. SMART is the new COOL.

Check out Project Mc2, only on Netflix.

Need Some Smart Flix Inspiration? Check out this brilliant list of kids movies and TV shows to stream, from our friends at Netflix. Got younger kids? The offspring of favorite fairytale characters in Ever After High's new Way Too Wonderland adventure (debuted Aug. 14) empower kids to write their own life stories. Whether Royal or Rebel, your actions, behaviors and choices are your own to make. Get the little ones ready for new experiences with shows like the Netflix original Dinotrux from DreamWorks, (premiered Aug. 14). Prehistoric hybrid dinosaur-construction vehicles team-up to use their different skills to solve problems and show that even the most uncommon of duos, like Ty-Rux and Revvit, can form friendships of a lifetime. Early learners can also go anywhere and be anything by letting their imaginations soar on a Reading Rainbow journey, now available to stream.

ChiIL Mama will be back in September with more Netflix fun. Have a great back to school season and check back with ChiIL Mama soon.




And remember... smart is the new cool, for boys and girls!

Disclosure: Once again, ChiIL Mama is a proud member of the Netflix Stream Team. We've been compensated for sharing monthly posts with our readers.  As always, all opinions are our own. ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama next month, for more Netflix fun in Chi, IL and beyond!