Birthday Boys

Monday was the boys' 7th birthday, so we treated them to a day at PlopsaLand. It's a nice theme park about 25 km from where we're staying. I'm assuming the place is based on TV or literary characters here in Belgium, but didn't really care enough to find out.

Having taken the boys to Disneyland last year, I was a bit skeptical about the place. It cost me 70 euros, or about $100 to get in - and that was with the boys getting in free for their birthday. Quite expensive, but we packed some food to keep the overall cost down.

It was clean, there were plenty of quality rides, mostly rollercoasters, and while Moi and the boys were doing the scariest ride, I enjoyed a beer and some fries - very civilized. One ride was a Viking ship water gun battle, and the park had a giant dryer we used to dry off after. So far, it has been the boys' favourite day here in Belgium and they say they liked the park better than Disneyland.

In the dryer following our water gun Viking ship battle

 

The day before, on Sunday, we stayed closer to home. In the morning, we went grocery shopping. No grocery stores open in the evenings here, or on Sunday afternoons. In the afternoon, we went to the medieval fishing village of Walraversijde, partially recreated after an archeological dig, followed by a trip to the beach.

Buildings recreated on original footprints with bricks unearthed from the site

 

 

On a beautiful Belgian beach near Middlekerke

Queue U2 - they still haven't found what they're looking for