Day #4 in Sweden: Tivoli!
[Photos from Thursday 14 July 2016, posted online 22 July 2016. Back at the cafe downtown, while the kids are out walking and playing Pokemon Go!]
[UPDATE on 23 July: Added two photos of Finnur and Bjarki on a roller-coaster towards the bottom of the post.]
The kids began the day with a water battle, and then we drove back to town and visited the local Tivoli (amusement park). We ate a snack beforehand, and had dinner afterwards, which I believe represent the only proper restaurants we visited on the whole trip! (30 images total)
The kids discovered a water-gun, which attached to regular plastic bottles. A water battle ensued!
We drove back into Stockholm a little later. After getting a bit lost while finding a parking spot, and scratching our heads over the parking spot signage (what did people do before online translations?!), we finally made it to the Bla Porten Restaurant.
The features a lovely garden to eat in.
Our table.
A couple of houses away was the entrance to the Grona Lunds Tivoli.
Our family members have very different opinions on what is “fun”. The boys like major thrills, while the girls like minor thrills. (We have such sensitive inner ears! ) Therefore, we split up along genders the whole time we were there, so I don’t have photos of the boys.
That tall fall-tower on the left is where the boys went. Technically, Bjarki needed to be 140 cm to be allowed to ride the fall-tower, but the measuring stick was on the small side, so he was allowed inside, even though he was about an inch too short. Lucky guy! They went three times!!!
Meanwhile, Anna valiantly waited with Emma in the lines for the small-kid-rides, while I stood around and took photos.
On the zig-zaggy train.
Anna spotted this train on the roof of a house by where we were standing in line for the …
… teacup ride which was the only ride I went on… and somehow I managed to sprain my back/shoulder riding it! No more jogging for me this trip!
Happy sisters.
Wheee!
There were a lot of people there, but the lines were still manageable so it was ok.
Next up, the up-and-down-and-round-and-round elephants.
People, people, everywhere!
It’s possible that this photo has Anna visible on her elephant, and the boys being pulled up on the fall-tower in the background!
Emma was hungry, we got ourselves some ice cream.
Anna with her 2 kuler.
We moved to a different area to eat the ice creams, but there were even more people there!
Emma transfixed by a bird bathing in a pool.
The elephants got a second ride.
Meanwhile, Bjarki and Finnur were having fun on their own!
Cutie-pies!
By 7 pm we decided to call it a day, and the kids all went on the merry-go-round one last time.
The Circus building, and lots of parking signs.
Looking towards the entrance to yet another attraction, the Skansen. It turns out almost ALL of Stockholms things-to-do are packed onto the same parcel of land.
Spot the flag!
The only time we went out for dinner the whole trip!
I was there. 🙂
The food at Ulla Winbladh was pretty good, although Anna didn’t like her Swedish meatballs, or any other dish instead, to the despair of our waitress. Oh well…
Bjarki by the exit.
Thus ended a fun day! 🙂
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