Then we were getting close to the end, but making sure that we had at least looked at everything. We were by what was expected to be a dead end because the installation at the end wasn't open yet. I walked down the hallway to double check and some doors automatically opened and I went, "whoa." I summoned everyone else. The installation was called "the populace" bu Nina Beier & John Miller and was bunch of mannequins going about their day in a huge room. There was one other person in the room with us at the beginning, but he left pretty quickly. So then we had the room to ourselves and still found ourselves whispering. It was a bit eerie. Obviously, we played some hide-and-seek. My hair was in a ponytail which gave it away as all the other women had their hair down. I thought about it while Joshua was seeking me, but if I moved to take my hair down he would have seen the movement.
We found a few more rooms near the basement, but the kids were very interested in the playground outside. The rain had been on and off, but it was currently off so we went out. We stayed there a bit, but it was a rather normal playground so we didn't stay long. Joshua also got a sliver around this time, but it wasn't sticking out enough to get. His response? "Can we find a doctor or something here?" Inwardly I said "no way...we don't get hurt on vacation" and outwordly I said that I had bandaids in my backpack that we could get shortly. I believe that it hurt a lot, but it was not doctor worthy.
We finished up and went back inside to get our stuff. As normal, we stopped at the bathroom...which was a unisex one. Honestly, it was a great idea. The stalls were all floor-to-ceiling individual stalls, and then everyone just washed their hands at the closest sink. We saw this is a few other places too, but it was such a good idea to prevent lines on one side or the other.
We walked around the city center a bit. The kids hopped over rocks in a man-made stream, we went to some tall trees, and we looked for a game store. The game store wasn't really what we wanted, so we didn't stay there long. Pizza for dinner again, but I love pizza so it worked. (I do think that was the last time we had pizza on the trip though.)
I don't remember the exact context, but one of the kids said something like, "oh, those are cool trees. I wish we could see them" ...as we were walking up to them.
The pizza slices were gigantic!
We went back to the parking garage and thought we'd go one floor higher to a little overlook bridge. Well, this overlook was much more exciting than we realized. I thought there was a restaurant over the overlook bridge and so it wouldn't be appropriate to go any farther, but it turned out that there was just a really nice room with bathrooms. We could continue to walk on the roof and there were several seating areas and a few special overlook places. To think we almost missed it!
The sun kept going in and out, so some pictures are sunny and others aren't. You can see the rainbow bridge in the distance.
This was the church was saw at Legoland the day before.
They had some artsy benches that were almost for playing on but not quite. They weren't very exciting to play on, although still interesting as benches go.
We drove home and I made Ben bring the rental car back. We debated a bit about bringing it back in the evening or in the morning, but if it was in the morning we would have to be up and out earlier and I just wasn't feeling comfortable with it. To be fair, I packed the whole time he was bringing the car back, so we both worked.
Joshua got an owl with his treasure hunt and put it by the other owls in the room.
Isaac wanted to walk the playline one last time, so I went out with him. We only walked the fun part and then we walked the fun part back. During this time Ben and Joshua went to build some butterflies as part of the butterfly challenge the hotel had.
Here we are again: extra vowels
We eventually got to bed and Ben pushed one of the light switches by his bed to turn off his light. It turned off all the lights! Whoever was in the bathroom yelled at us. I also wanted to comment on the beds while I'm talking about sleeping. Both hotels used individual duvets, which was fine. It wasn't too hot, so for the most part not having a sheet was ok and it was really easy to stick your feet out if you did get too hot. The weird part about the duvets is that housekeeping always folded them sideways. So in order to open up the duvet you needed to turn it 90 deg and then open them up to put on yourself. While a minor annoyance, it was surprisingly annoying.
