Day 34: Free Yoga on Thursdays

Day 34: Free Yoga Class on Thursdays

Get some free yoga in at 205 Student Health Center on the Penn State Campus tomorrow, on Thursday, Nov 4 5:00p to 6:00.

You don't have to be a human pretzel to benefit from yoga. Learn yoga basics with local instructors, Amy Rumbel and Karla Hudecek. Not only can yoga help you relax, it can improve your overall flexibility and level of fitness. Bring a friend and tune up this fall!

Day 29: Check out the Global Capacity Open House next Thursday evening!

Day 29: Check out the Global Capacity Open House next Thursday evening!

Global Capacity is holding an Open House on Thursday, October 14, 2010, from 6:30 to 8:30PM at the Downsbrough Community Room at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 South Allen Street, Downtown State College.

Global Capacity is a local nonprofit organization with the mission of improving lives in Rwanda by providing financial assistance for education. Open House activities include multi-media self-guided tour and silent auction featuring Rwandan artifacts.

The open house will showcase the Right2School program, which provides secondary school scholarships to children in Rwanda who cannot afford to go to school. For further information, check out: www.globalcapacity.org

Day 18: Go for a Hike at Shingletown Gap

Day 18: Go for a Hike at Shingletown Gap

Shingletown Gap boasts of plethora of hiking trails along small, swift streams and along a majestic ridge-line. Just a short drive, bus ride, or bike ride from downtown State College, Shingletown Gap is a great hour or two getaway, for those days when you just need a change of pace and some nature! For maps, directions, etc, click here.

Day 15: Wednesday night music at Olde NY with Ted & Molly

Day 15: Wednesday night music at Olde NY with Ted & Molly

Today's recommendation comes from a blog follower Kristian, thanks! I haven't been there to check out it personally, but if you wanna check it out, need driving directions, hours, or the menu, check out the Olde New York website.

Day 13: Visit Penn's Cave

Day 13: Visit Penn's Cave

America's only all-water cavern and wildlife park are nestled in Central Pennsylvania's scenic Penn State Country. The cavern tour is a guided one-hour tour by motorboat on an underground stream. Along the limestone corridors, stalagmites, stalactites, flowstone cascades and draperies decorate the interior rooms, while underwater, trout swim and jump for feed! The farm and wildlife tour is a guided 90-minute motorized tour over 1,500 acres of Penn's Cave forests and fields which have been carefully preserved as a natural habitat for birds, plants, and animals. North American animals, such as bears, wolves, elk, deer, bobcats, bison, longhorn cattle, mustangs as well as the Penn's Cave Icon, the cougar.

For directions, hours of operation, coupons, or additional information, check out their website.

Day 10: Join A Community Ultimate Frisbee Game

Day 10: Join A Community Ultimate Frisbee Game

This idea comes from our reader Kristian, thanks! Join a pick-up game of ultimate frisbee at Community Fields Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm and Sundays at 1pm.

Never played before, freshen up on the rules by clicking here. To get to community fields in State College, click here to create driving directions on google maps.

Day 5: Enjoy a mexi-hot and a scoop of ice cream at Meyer's Dairy

Day 5: Enjoy a mexi-hot and a scoop of ice cream at Meyer's Dairy

Now that the warmer weather has caught up with us in Happy Valley, head over to Meyer's Dairy on South Atherton Street for a mexi-hot and a scoop of ice cream.

The building is marked by a small wooden sign which could easily be overlooked by passers-by. Outside the glass doors sit boxes of plants for sale. But inside, directly ahead, is one of the only farm fresh ice cream counters in the area.

It does not take long to realize that Meyer's, 2390 S. Atherton St., is not an ordinary dairy. It is best described as a combination general store/restaurant/dairy. Where else do customers have the choice of sitting in a spacious dining room, or outside in a semi-wooded picnic area to enjoy ice cream made on the same premises?

Regardless of where they eat it, many seem to agree Meyer's ice cream is the best and freshest tasting around.