{"id":37,"date":"2012-09-01T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/a-busy-week-at-center-parks\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:03:47","slug":"a-busy-week-at-center-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/a-busy-week-at-center-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy week at Center Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While we have been quite busy exploring this year, we haven’t taken off more than a day or two at a time of holiday since February (I took off four days to go to Lanzarote with the fam). So we went all out and took off another four days and strategically scheduled a week away around a bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

The kids had been dying to go to Center Parcs<\/a>. Center Parks (or as the Brits would say: Centre Parcs) is a giant park where there are more activities to choose from than anyone would ever possibly have time to do. When you arrive, you park your vehicle at the front and the remainder of the time to move around the camp, you must walk, bike or take the land train. Let me summarize by saying we had a blast, even though it rained for four of the five days we were there.
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We lost a half day due to a eye issue with Caden where we had to take him to the doctor, but aside from that, we were extremely busy having fun. Activities including: swimming in the sub-tropical swimming paradise (paradise is an understatement), cross-bow practice for the kids, rock wall climbing, playing in the woods, biking, fishing, playing on the sandy beach, chef school for the kids, and (possibly the favorite amongst the little people) wizard and fairy university. And just for clarification, the fishing really should’ve been called catching. The kids caught more fish by running the net through the water than using the fishing pole and bait! The squeals of delight made it extremely fun…
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Honorable mention:<\/p>\n

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While we have been quite busy exploring this year, we haven’t taken off more than a day or two at a time of holiday since February (I took off four days to go to Lanzarote with the fam). So we went all out and took off another four days and strategically scheduled a week away…<\/p>\n

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