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Do you and your family enjoy theme parks? Ok, silly question. What family doesn't enjoy theme parks? Kids love them because there's always something fun to do. Parents love them because they give their kids such joy. And, let's face it, many parents love the roller coasters and other rides as well.

Many families try to visit all the major parks at least once while their kids are young. It's almost like the tradition of putting a sticker on your luggage to show where you've been. You want as many stickers on that suitcase as you can collect. They become badges of honor for your travels. As far as theme parks go, there are the usual suspects:

California

--Disneyland

--California Adventure

--Knott's Berry Farm

--Magic Mountain

--Universal Studios

--Legoland

--SeaWorld

Florida

--Universal Orlando

--SeaWorld Orlando

--Walt Disney World

But what about the Not-So-Usual Suspects? Those are the theme parks you might not know about, but should, particularly if you have younger children. Here are a few not-so-knowns that you might want to consider as well:

Bonfante Gardens - Gilroy, California

Gilroy? Where's Gilroy? Chances are many of you haven't heard of Gilroy, California. Gilroy is the Garlic Capital of the World, located off the 101, approximately 42 miles southeast of Monterey and just over 80 miles south of San Francisco. So, if you're visiting the San Francisco, Monterey or Santa Cruz areas of California, a side trip to the Bonfante Gardens should be on your list.

Bonfante Gardens has the distinction of being California's only horticultural theme park, designed for garden lovers and families of small children. It's like a Legoland, only instead of trees and flowers made of Legos, these trees and flowers are real. Imagine that, a theme park with something real. And, while you won't find the amount of thrill rides you would at the other parks, there are some rides to keep the kids (and ride-loving parents interested). Rides include a sky monorail, a roller coaster billed as a "thrilling mine coaster" surrounded by nearly 600 trees, a carousel which dates back to 1927, and a giant banana which swings back and forth. Okay, maybe not the most thrilling, but definitely appropriate for younger children.

For the garden buffs among you, Bonfante Gardens has several gardens to astound you, such as the Monarch Garden, filled with hundreds of tropical and sub-tropical trees, flowers and shrubs; the Camellia Gardens displaying many different varieties of camellias; and the Holly Garden, which features over 20 different varieties of hollies.

Bonfante Garden's season begins March 31.

Silver Dollar City - Branson, Missouri

Silver Dollar City is an absolute must-see theme park. Why? It has what the other theme parks don't have. An actual living cave. As a matter of fact, Missouri is chock full of caves, and is known as the "Cave State" due to it containing over 6,000 surveyed caves. One of them is Marvel Cave, which is now part of Silver Dollar City amusement park. Admission to Silver Dollar City also gains you admission to the Marvel City Cave tour, a tour which lasts approximately 60 minutes and takes you 500 feet below the surface. You do have to climb 600 stairs down, but will have a cable train to take you the -mile trip back up to the surface.

Other rides include a giant swing, which launches you 7 stories into the air; a 20-minute steam train ride; a funhouse called Grandfather's Mansion; an 80-foot tall, high-speed, roller coaster with a great view of the Ozarks; and several water rides.

Dollywood - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

For those of you not familiar with Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, its one of the towns close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of the most popular National Parks in the United States. So, a vacation to Pigeon Forge will get you close to peaceful vacation cabins and all the outdoor activities you can handle: boating, fishing, hiking, etc. Plus, you can give the kids a day at a fabulous nearby theme park: Dollywood.

Dollywood is a great place for families with children of all ages. The younger children will really like it because of the mix of rides with educational amusements, such as the Dreamland Forest Treehouse full of kid games, an interactive Dreamland Forest playground area, and the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, which houses the countrys largest collection of non-releasable bald eagles. There are numerous thrill rides as well for parents and older children, including the new coaster ride, Mystery Mine, where you travel on a 1,811-foot track through an abandoned coal mine, and take an 85-foot vertical plunge.

Five of the South's largest festivals occur at Dollywood between March and December, including KidsFest from mid June to early August. Dollywood is open March 31 through the end of December.

While every kid wants to visit Disneyland, Disney World, Universal Studios, and all the other usual suspects, do give some thought to some of the lesser-known, not-so-usual suspects which can delight, educate and thrill you and your family.

Shari Hearn is a writer and creator of Top Vacation Spots, where you can learn about such things as cheap weekend breaks.

The word holiday has many connotations; one being a holy day and the other which is quite common and well accepted is the time, which one spends away from the home for the sake of refreshing and revitalizing the spirits. The holidays are spent from recreational purposes. People who are just too busy with their hectic and monotonous life need frequent holidays so as to energize themselves. Pubic holidays act like a bonus for business officials. Holidays are not just cherished by kids but also by the business professional, as they even need break from their daily schedule. The daily routine makes the persons life monotonous, so a holiday serves like a break in their dull life.

There are many tourist places in United States, such as Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland, Fisherman's Wharf, Las Vegas Strip, Universal Studios Hollywood, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, which attract a large number of people for a vacation or for simply enjoying a public holiday. A public holiday is a day when it is a declared off for private and public companies, self-employed people and all the government or semi-government organizations. There are eleven public holidays observed by both the state and the local government. The list includes New Year's Day, Veterans Day, Christmas, Independence Day and Thanksgiving. Most of the public holidays are observed on Monday, which is closest to the date, so as to avoid any inconvenience to the officials, and people can even have a two day off and can plan a holiday at some exotic location. Moreover, the public holiday is like a blessing for those people who remain busy in their hectic schedule and do not get time to attend their families. On a holiday, they can spend the time with their kin and kith and can make the worth out of the day.

Europe is even an ideal place for a holiday. The places of tourists interest in Europe include Disneyland, Eiffel tower, Louvre - Place de la Concorde which attracts people on all the holidays. People love going on a holiday to this place that refreshes an individual and stimulates their spirit.

South America is even a favorite for the people who want to be close to nature and cherish every moment in the lap of the nature and be comforted by it. The Cayes, Blue Creek are some of the major tourist places, which attract most of the people visiting South America.

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Day after day organizations face problems for which they desire effective solutions. An important consideration is how to differentiate between problems for which root cause analysis is justifiable and those for which it is not. Applying resources to such an effort should be made based on considerations such as frequency, impact and risk.

Root cause analysis is the process of first drilling down from the symptoms of a problem to the physical cause, then from physical cause to root cause. Root causes are errors in the design or implementation of formal organizational processes which if corrected will provide a high level of assurance that the same problem will not recur.

So why not do root cause analysis on every problem? Because no organization has unlimited human and financial resources, yet investigations into problems require the allocation of both. Organizations then need a mechanism for helping determine the appropriate depth of analysis for each problem.

Some problems dont even justify an investigation at all. For example, if a company runs out of copy machine paper, going to the local office supply store to get some is likely to suffice. However, it the problem occurs repeatedly, then an assessment of how the paper inventory management process works (or doesnt work, in this case) may be worthy of analysis.

Such logic is often ignored when problems occur across external organizational boundaries. It is not unusual for customers to request that their suppliers perform root cause analysis based on a single failure out of hundreds of thousands of successes. Unless the degree of risk related to the problem is very high, such requests amount to diversions of resources to low value-added tasks.

Unfortunately, organizations often do not understand that root cause analysis is a rigorous mental process. It combines deductive and inductive reasoning to determine the specific cause and effect relationship that creates a particular problem. And it is not a popularity contest, but instead a data/evidence-driven one that can eliminate onerous business problems if used judiciously.

Duke Okes helps organizations implement effective root cause analysis as one component of the business improvement process. He can be reached at http://www.aplomet.com

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