Thursday, October 6, 2016

A Surprise from Prague

This past weekend was a 5-day break for us.  I am still not sure why we had Thursday and Friday off from school (Monday was a national holiday) but I wasn't about to argue about a bit of down time.  Normally with that many days off I would pack up the family and we would go on an adventure.  But B was traveling in a foreign land until late Friday night and I just wasn't up for packing it all up for a quick jaunt.  And thankfully, I didn't because if we had we would have missed seeing these guys!


Saturday morning we got a text that friends from Prague were wondering if they could come visit for the weekend.  After some changing of plans and a bit of quick packing on their part, they were off and at our home by late afternoon.  The big boys were off to Oktoberfest for the evening and the girls and 5 kids were left to play, watch movies and catch up...

These two were so happy to see each other!

The next morning we spent some more time just enjoying each others company but knew we had to get this bunch of kids out and moving.  So we headed over to Sea Life.  It was a rainy Sunday afternoon though so most of Munich was there, standing in the rain, waiting to get in.  Thankfully we have season tickets to Legoland which also gets us into Sea Life so we skipped the line and headed in.  
Ready to see the aquarium.
The kids were all fascinated and loved watching the fish and sea life pass right in front of them...








The girls tried to see who could hold their breath the longest - Stinkerbell kept winning.

The kids all got inside one of the tanks and tried to find Dory and Nemo.



Success!

I let the rest of them wander around a bit while I took pictures of the Jellyfish.  I am fascinated by Jellyfish and love watching them propel themselves around the tanks...







Can you see how you could be mesmerized by them?

But I had to catch up with the rest of the group and I found them equally mesmerized but by the rays and the sharks in the large tanks...




And we even got to measure ourselves against the sharks.

At this point, we were all a bit hungry and our visitors had to be headed on their way back home so we had a quick lunch and said our goodbyes.  Sad that they had such a short time to spend with us but so happy that they came!  Surprise visits from dear friends are always welcome!






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