We did get brave on one day and decided to venture to the next town over to see the local Dolphinarium.
We booked a mini bus for the eight of us and after waiting an hour for it called another taxi company . By then our optimal morning hours when everyone was awake and happy had long passed and we had two tired babies who wanted to nap. At just about the point we decided to call it off the 2nd taxi finally showed up. The drive was about 45 minutes - just enough time to get the kiddos asleep but not enough for them to actually be rested.
Fortunately, the Dolphimarium was a very small place with a few good viewing of key animals like sea lions, walruses, rays and small sharks. We timed our visit to get in 2 shows.
The first was a pirate adventure with sea lions which are always fun to watch (which is good since the show was in dutch).
Tylor thought it was the coolest thing he had ever seen.
He couldn't get enough of the silly animals on the stage and in his over-tired state was pure hysterics with giggles.
After that show we saw the main attraction - the dolphins.
The show was very dark with much of it under black lights and that was too much for Tylor - we spent most of the show standing at the door to keep him from screaming.
I think Jaydon liked the show but he had also missed nap time by this point so we were all happy that the return taxi was right on time to bring us all home.
The next day we took it easy to let the kids recuperate and while the babies were sleeping the dads and older boys ventured out into the forest to play in mud, catch bugs, chase geese and get into other kinds of boy type trouble.
We also rented paddle boats which was a fun way to spend an hour.
We again brought along all the spare bread so had many ducks interested in following us around which is how the boys stayed entertained for the hour.
Steve and John also went down to the archery range for a little brake from the family fun.
Jaydon also discovered that he loves those small tender carrots straight out of the garden, he and Jacob had rabbit eating carrots competitions (and usually Jaydon could are less for the things).
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