Zurich Day 3 (Ropes Course and Pool)

It was a mega sleep night - I ended up more forcefully trying to wake the kids up around 9am by slowly opening the blinds. Michele commented that if my kids were so light sensitive why didn't we install dark shades at home. That is a good point but there is also something to be said to waking up naturally with the sun. So I don't know what's best.

Ziplining on the baby course

Unfortunately I didn't go to sleep until 2am last night - Michele and I were having some great conversation and then I got obsessed with trying to fix my watch (it had stopped synching with my phone and was in a weird mode - I did eventually fix it the next day by unpairing it with my phone explicitly).

I did a bunch of research on ropes courses and it came down to Seilpark Zurich, Flumserberg, and Atzmannig. Turned out Flumserberg wasn't actually in the trees and was this big metal contraption so that was out. Then Atzmannig was just really far to get to. Seilpark Zurich was near the airport and also had a combo pool area!

So off we went with our typical late start and got there around 12:40. After a quick introduction in German with a quick recap in English we were on our way. This ropes course was kind of interesting since the Yellow and Green runs didn't actually need parents up there with them. I had paid to go though in case Hannah wanted to do harder ones though I was plenty scared on the Green. But the craziest part was that the transitions between the elements involved moving one carabiner and then the other and there was no safety clip so it was possible for a kid to accidentally unclip themselves when they were up there. Christopher did it once when he was transitioning and I yelled at him.

On the baby course 

Clipping on

At one point, Hannah got stuck toward the end of the zipline and was able to swing her body vigorously to make it to the end.

We went well over our 2 and 3 hour limits but it seemed not super enforced anyways. We hit the pool afterwards and got a little to eat at the pool cafe. Hannah made a Swiss friend in the pool! It's great that kids can play together even when they can't talk to each other. (They played tag)