Day 272 May 3 2015 Seine-et-Marne France

enjoying one of the smaller rides of the park

spinning like crazy

Isabel and Asterix

on the way to the 7 loop coaster

on the slide

on the wooden roller coaster

Day 272  May 3  2015 Seine-et-Marne France

We took our time leaving the hotel in the morning as it was raining fairly hard.  When we got to Park Asterix it was still drizzling so we had to wear ponchos.  The rain stopped after an hour and by 3 pm the sun was shining.  The park has an inverted coaster which is now my favorite rollercoaster.  They also have a great wooden coaster which Isabel was able to go on.  It is her biggest rollercoaster to date.  The lines were nonexistent so the longest we waited to board a ride was 2 minutes (probably less).  David and Isabel we able to walk to the Viking ship, have a ride and return to the restaurant in the time it took Evy and I to order lunch.   It was a great day with no lines, lots of good rides and cheaper prices then Disney.  Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the day and Isabel was sad that she will probably not return in the near future or possibly ever.

Day 271 May 2 2015 Seine-et-Marne France

2 happy kids about to enter Disney

looking at Thunder Mountain

a goofy picture

not this time

confused?

outside the small world

Day 271  May 2  2015 Seine-et-Marne France

We were at Euro Disney when it opened and spent a good portion of the day waiting in lines to get on rides.  It was drizzling for most of the day, not enough to get you wet, just enough to make it miserable.  Isabel enjoyed the Thunder Mountain roller coaster but David for the most part was looking for bigger rides.  When we got back to the room David searched the net for Amusement parks and found Park Asterix which is where we are going tomorrow.

Day 270 May 1 2015 Seine-et-Marne

Day 270  May 1 2015 Seine-et-Marne

We left the hotel in Entzheim France at noon and drove to Seine-et-Marne.  It was a very nice and easy drive.  We stopped to eat at a highway stop but it was packed with long weekend travelers so we decided to eat what food we had with us and keep driving.  When we got to our hotel we left the kids in the room and Evy and I went to look for supper.  Due to the long weekend all of the stores and most of the restaurants were closed. We did find a subway that was open and the kids enjoyed the first subway flat bread since leaving the states months ago.   

Day 269 April 30 2015 Entzheim France

view from hotel in Marquatstein Germany

about as fast as the car would go!

spinning at a high speed

these chairs are great

Day 269  April 30 2015 Entzheim France

Today is David’s 11^th birthday and he ended up with a bag of chips a 6 pack of chocolate bars and a $20 iTunes card as a present. His main present will be 2 days a Euro Disney when we get there, Isabel will also benefit from David’s present.  We spent the day in the car again driving to Entzheim France.  We spent a small part of the trip traveling at over 170 km/ hr (that was all the Dacia Duster had in it) and getting passed by many cars.  A larger portion of the day was spent in several massive traffic jams due to long weekend volume, a truck stuck on the guardrail and construction.  A drive that should have taken 4 ½ hours took over 8 ½ hours, it was a joyous experience.

Day 268 April 29 2015 Marquatstein Germany

I hope they never see a war

an amphibian barge 

mountains where we stopped for gas

Day 268  April 29 2015 Marquatstein Germany

We drove from Poljanak Croatia to Marquatstein Germany today.  The only stop we made to see a collection of weapons and vehicles from the Croatian Home Land War in Karlovac Croatia.  We arrived at our hotel around 8 pm and enjoyed a meal of German food.  It is the first place in Europe that we stayed that did not have English on their menu.  When the waiter realized that we did not speak German he brought us a folder with translations of German food names to English.  Unfortunately half the stuff on the menu was not in the translations.   The food we got was good even though I did not get what I was hoping that I had ordered.  

Day 267 April 28 2015 Poljanak Croatia

Plitvice Lakes National Park

One of the many waterfalls

looking for stuff

another one of the many falls

looks like paradise 

all those white things in background are waterfalls

shortly before getting a wet foot

Day 267  April 28 2015  Poljanak Croatia

We spent the day walking around the waterfalls at Plitvice Lakes National Park.  We drove from the hotel to the park and were looking for the parking lot.  We got to the boat launch area and were told that we were not supposed to be there with a car.  We asked where we were supposed to park and were told to return up the road  we had just traveled.  When we got to the rangers shack the gate that was open on our trip into the launch was now closed.  I was driving so Evy went to investigate if the gate was locked or just closed.  It was locked but she noticed that the chain had excess slack in it and was able to pry it over the end of the post.. We were free.  We parked the car on the other side of the gate and walked back to the boat launch.  The area is absolutely beautiful with a multitude of waterfalls at different levels.  We spent almost 6 hours walking around the area.  Toward the end of the day we were walking down a trail that was closed due to flooding.  Evy said “If I get a wet foot I am going to be mad, extremely annoyed”, within 5 minutes she slipped of the edge of the bank and got a soaker.  She the got mad and said “ I am going back” so the kids and I continued on the trail and Evy returned to the car by herself.  

Day 266 April 27 2015 Poljanak Croatia

serious static from a plastic slide

Day 266  April 27 2015  Poljanak Croatia

We left Leskovak at 9:30 am and drove just under 800 km to Poljanak Croatia where we plan to visit the Plitvice Lakes National Park.