Recently we had been wanting to get away for a little family time, but we were bad about planning ahead and making time for it. Last week we thought we would finally do it and at the last minute we found a place we thought would be nice. It turned out to be perfect. We left on Friday after lunch and drove to a small city about one hour away from home. We stayed the weekend and had a wonderful time together. Here are some pictures from the weekend:
This is the hotel where we stayed. It was neat to stay inside of this tower and our room was nice with a unique "u" shape to it around one side of the tower. We ate breakfast and dinner a couple of times on the 8th floor, which had a nice lookout over the nearby city of Bohumin. You can see we were also blessed to have WONDERFUL weather over the weekend. It was sunny and about 40 F, which is a heat-wave here. :)
Here's the water park, which was just across the road and to which we were given unlimited access due to our staying in the hotel. We went on Friday and Saturday with Jakub- he loved it. We swam and played a lot. He also went down a large, indoor, slide with Josh several times. He's very brave and we were proud of him. This place also had a tunnel to swim through to the outside where you could swim in an outdoor, heated pool. We did that as well, but only for 10-15 minutes at a time before heading back in. It was definitely still very cold outside. :)
There was also a nearby park we could walk to and which had many fun things for children to do and play. Jakub wanted to try everything, except climbing to the top of the rock wall.
I'm proud of him for also trying and loving the zip line, though he definitely loved it even more when Daddy stayed nearby. :)And then, as he always does, he found a tree stump to climb upon and then proceeded to entertain us with his loud singing and crazy,wonderful dancing.
So sweet. I hope he always keeps singing with such energy and joy. This day it was "the wheels on the bus."
Love this boy...
On Sunday we took him to his first movie theater, in Bohumin, for a one-hour showing of a classic children's cartoon, Krtek. It's the name of the little mole in the picture above and there are tons of cartoons with him in them. They were made in the 60's and 70's and are still wonderful to watch for children today. He LOVED it and sat watching and laughing the whole time. What a wonderful memory to make with him. What a lovely weekend it was as a family!!!
Other recent fun times (or not all completely fun) :
Playing in sleeping bags with Daddy...
Watching Toy Story 3 together and then running and playing and pretending to be some of the characters....
And these last 2 are for you, Laura B. :) Jakub had an accident about one month ago. He dropped and broke a cup, then he tried to get down from the table to help clean it up and before we knew it he was falling out of his chair. Josh instinctively caught him with some of the cup already in his hand and cut Jakub's head with it. We went to the ER in case it needed stitches, but thankfully it did not. He was so brave and never cried once about any of it, until 1 1/2 weeks later when we took the bandage off and it pulled some of his hair. It was a very heavy-duty, sticky, bandage and was not easy to get off. Other than that he was fine about it all. These shots are after 2 weeks of healing. He looks more distraught here than he ever did with the actual accident and ER visit. We were proud of him for being so brave, even when blood was dripping in his eye.That's what's been going on around here lately. More pictures from furlough to come soon... maybe.... sometime...
