Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Summer activities: sliding & hiking

Summer returned on Monday and on Tuesday the weather reached temperatures for a day in the outdoor pool again. Hence we got on our bikes and went to nearby Strandbad Eichwald in Lindau, which offers both the possibilities to go for a swim in the lake as we as in several pools. The Eichenwaldbad offers great possibilities for children of all ages with swings, sandboxes, pool in with several depths as well as a water slide. Jakob loved it there, both inside and outside the water and if Kerstin and Markus improve there skills on the waterslide again, that might be more fun as well in the future: Both of us tried to slide down together with Jakob, but we held up the traffic and had to push in order to move on at all. If the weather allows we will give it another try this summer!

Back in the child carrier and still smiling

On Wednesday we put on our hiking boots again as the whole family Meier and Blaser (apart from Flo who has not holiday unfortunately) went to Moeggers to hike the Walderlebnispfad. The tour is not too long but completely in the woods and offers a lot of possibilities for children to play and learn trees and the nature life in the woods and it can be spiced up with the Inpsirationspfad where water has to be crossed via small bars, a rope or hanging bridges. Jakob was dead tired as he did not sleep in the morning and thus missed 2/3 of the tour (including the swing on the rope) but was full of joy when he was awake in his child carrier. Afterwards we all had fantastic lunch in the Ried Stueble, remotely located but excellent food, before we headed home and enjoyed the rest of the late afternoon running (Markus) or cycling to the lake and taking a swim (Jakob, Kerstin, Heidi & Sandra)

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus

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