After 5 days in Europe, we had been in 3 different countries and been going non-stop. We unanimously decided that a "down" day was in order. We decided to head to a park that Tina's family had recently discovered near their home. Huizingen was a beautiful park that had several playgrounds, many walking trails, a petting zoo, and a pool. After letting Olivia explore the playground, Tina, Marla, and Olivia tried out the paddleboats on the pond. I wandered around taking in the beautiful chateau and snapping photos.
After our park fun, Tina drove us to a local dairy to see the milk machine.
At the dairy, there was a "vending" machine of sorts. For 1 Euro you could fill a liter container with fresh "straight from the cow" milk.
There was also this structure an insect hotel. The sign was in French so I still need to read up on what goes into making one of these and for what purpose.
After our milk purchase, we swung by the grocery store. Marla and I made it evident that we were not local by snapping photos of weird food items and flavors and filling our cart with chocolate and waffles!
It was nice to have a relaxing slow day that included a tasty dinner of homemade pizzas cooked on the charcoal grill. Our day would conclude with this memorable sighting.
A wild hedgehog! Olivia had kept insisting that there was a hedgehog in the shrubs. I kept telling her it was probably the mouse we had seen earlier. I had just got into bed when she knocked on the door telling us that we had to get up and go outside to see the hedgehog. I insisted that there was no hedgehog and that I wasn't getting out of bed. A few minutes later Tina came up and told us to come see the hedgehog. As we walked out into the yard I had to tell Olivia that I indeed stood corrected....there he was, Sonic in the flesh!
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