Alles Park

I spent the morning doing laundry a few blocks away at a coin operated laundromat.

These places have been too few and far between for the convenience of a fast turn around wash. The last one we used was in Ecuador. I was able to get it all done in two hours while the kids did homeschool. 

We walked back to Alles Park and paid for the diamond passport which allowed access to everything. The ticketing process shows entry is only $15 but that is a limited ticket and you have to add $5 to separate rides or experiences. The diamond passport is $38. The park is not too large and if it was summer it might be too crowded but it was Monday and not many people were there. Alles Park is a German-themed amusement park with rides, an escape room, indoor playground, and an inner tube snow park.

The kids started off on the Ferris wheel and I had a Guarana soda.

They tried their hands at panning for treasures. They had never done this before because we are too cheap to pay for this scam experience back at home but our passports allowed us to do this one time for each of us. They got some colored stones in their bags of sand.

We ran into the Brazilian family from last night and they recommended going into the snow park first before the indoor playground so we didn't workup a sweat and then freeze like they did.

The snow park has boots and coats for you we borrow. We brought coats and gloves but not the Antarctic gear. It was around -10C or 14 F. Snow was spraying and there was the smell of exhaust which was not super fun. But it was a sledding hill in Brazil which itself is amazing. The kids were thrilled. They went on the hill 8 times. There was a small bump to make them catch a bit of air.

Eventually we all became too cold and had to leave. We then went to the indoor playground area called the kidzone. This place was not included on the $15 passport and cost $5 and you could only be there for 20 minutes but our tickets allowed unlimited access here which is good because it is hard to get Dd to leave these places. We were there for a while. Dd has a good sweat. 

We played some Jenga and other wooden games.

We took a break and had lunch: pizza slice, a couple hot dogs, shepherds pie, and popcorn -- good times.

We also bought some lemon meringue which was delicious.

Ellie wanted to ride a rocket with me.

We went into the hall of mirrors a few times. The haunted house was too scary for them. There was a kids activity they participated in with the workers using Google translate to speak to our kids.

We had our first experience with an escape room and it was very challenging and ran out of time but were so close to finishing it.

The rode the wooden carousel and I spun on a defective bumper car. And we had the kids pan for gems with our passports. Then it was back to the snow park before it closed.

We were the last to leave the park. Christine wanted to get some fondue but the kids had to pee so we walked back to the campground and had leftovers dinner there. 

Two of the other campers had left and the German family remained and I walked over with the kids to talk to the dad. They had just started their trip a few weeks ago and had a year off and missed the window to Ushuaia but planned on shipping home from Cartagena. We talked for a couple hours and the wife and daughter Hedda came out and the kids played and I fed their dog some chicharrone. 

The kids watched some snow white before bed.