Liberec

On Sunday we decided to drive to Liberec. We thought it would be a nice way to combine sight seeing with fun for the girls since there is an Aquapark in Liberec. The townhall is a stunning building but most of the town was not that exciting. The girls seemed tired so after walking over to the castle (which was not impressive) we decided to get in the car and drive over to the botanical garden rather than walk. The botanical garden was fun. The girls love seeing all the flowers and plants. We paid for an hour of parking since we thought that would be enough time to see everything. We did leave at the end of the hour but we definitely could have spent more time in the gardens. After that we headed to the Aquapark. The Aquapark was ok but I think we have been ruined for other parks becuase of Aqua Palace. Babylon Aquapark was much more compact and it was very crowded when we arrived. They do have these cool caves that you can swim into though and those weren't as crowded so we stayed in there for quite awhile and let the girls swim around. At some spots in the caves there were fake stalactites. Ali did not like them and kept saying they were scary monsters so we had to make sure we were in a part of the caves that did not have any stalactites overhead. After a while we decided to check out the slides. The kids (and Jason and I) loved the slides. The kids had to go down the slides on our laps but they didn't mind. Sofia would go down the slides with Jason and Ali would go with me. Sofia gets a little more nervous and likes to have both of Jason's arms wrapped around her and if she has that then she has a lot of fun and doesn't find it too scary. Since I like to have a hand free to stabalize us if I need to Sofia prefers to be with Jason. Jason checked out a couple of other slides that he deemed not good for kids so we just kept going down the big yellow slide. By 6pm we decided it was time to go since it was about an hour and a half drive to get home. All in all a good day.