This year for Eid holiday we decided to get out the heat and head north to enjoy some cool rainy weather in the Netherlands. We'd heard good things about a place called CenterParcs which is a holiday village geared towards kids and the outdoors - sounded perfect for us. We invited along our usual vacation buddies the Fenns and shared a 6 bedroom cottage (which was really more of an apartment) on the lake about 45 mins outside of Amsterdam. We got a great deal on the flights but it meant that we left at midnight and arrived at 6 am.
This meant by the time we loaded up a small bus with all the kids and their gear and finally arrived at the park it was only 8 am and check-in wasn't until 3pm.
We found a nice place to stack up our luggage and spent the first day entertaining very tired kids while waiting to get into our room.
The boys had a great time playing in the greenery, catching bugs, and playing with sticks that they were quite satisfied with our temporary situation.
The babies had their naps on the go and we found a restaurant for lunch.
Since everything here is kid friendly they had a great play areas for the kids
... and the big kids too.
We finally got into our cottage/apartment and found there was already someone there - actually tons of them - all over.
I have never been anywhere with so many spiders. They were in the rafters, on the windows, all over the porch. If you left something hanging for more than about 12 hours you'd come back to webs on it. It was amazing how many there were they were very interesting to watch too - no need for TV when you have spiders everywhere. After a couple days we kind of got used to them being around (and had no issues with mosquitoes or other pesty bugs).
After a long day of travelling, waiting, and finally moving into our new home away from home (filled with spiders) we got all the kids to bed and enjoyed a beautiful sunset while sitting on our porch enjoying the local wine.
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