Birthday weekend: Colmar

The next day we went to visit Colmar, a quintessential Alsatian village.

We started the day with some waffles with nutella.

Then we headed over to get some tarte flambe. Which all seemed like a great idea until Jonas vomited it up all over the place. Maybe not such a good idea as he had complained about not feeling so well... But we couldn't let it ruin our day

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Birthday weekend: Europa Park

For the boys' birthdays this year we decided to take them to Europa Park, an amusement park about 3 hours from where we live. It was more for Jaxon's birthday than Jonas's, as it was right before his, but we tried to stress that it was for both of them so as too avoid too many of the "It's MY birthday" statements.

We drove up to Alsace of Friday night and enjoyed some of the famous cuisine at the hotel.

The next morning we headed to Europa Park. It was our first time to go, for some strange reason. It was really great. All of our friends who have done Europa Park and Disneyland Paris say they prefer coming here. The theme is Europe and they have seven different countries represented.

While Jaxon and I were on the Space Mountain-type roller coaster Jonas crashed a birthday party.

He even won musical chairs

Evaelle's first time on a merry-go-round

I like this picture with the Muslim woman behind us. Whenever Eva is wearing her little kerchiefs Jaxon always says, "She looks like she is Muselim" (his mix between English Muslim and French Musulmane)

Evaelle really had a blast. There were so many things to see!

It is so much fun watching her discover her world

We ate in Scandinavia- shrimp and pickled herring sandwiches.

The boys on the river rafting ride.

Jaxon was tired by the time we made it to this roller coaster that I wanted a buddy on. It took quite a bit of peer pressure, but he finally obliged. And of course he said it was his favorite ride afterward.

Ending the day with a little bit of Barbapapa

Last day in Lisbon

To begin our last day in Lisbon we took the old trolley the to St. George castle and the Alfama district.

A little nap after a lot of milk

This I had never seen: a guys playing the accordion with a chihuahua holding the money bucket in his mouth. Of course you have to give the dog some change.

I was a sucker for the tile art in the metro stations.

We hung out at the Parc das Nacos before we needed to go to the airport

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Depressed Jonas eating by himself after another wrestling match.

Carting

The music garden

A bunny with pilot goggles.

We ate our last Portuguese meal on the plane. They had these ham and cheese sandwiches that they would make on these sweet rolls with coconut sugary goodness on the top. It sounds a little strange, but amazingly delicious.