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Day 17 - Day 19 Lüsen, Italy (still)

The last few days have been much of the same - swimming pool, kids club and everything revolving around meal times.

We tried to get Henry skiing again - got all the gear on then he wanted to go on the swings instead 🤦. All that effort! 

We've had lots of time in the pool and on the waterslides. Henry's confidence has grown loads and he can swim with armbands quite happily, but not very far before getting tired.  

In the restaurant they had a kids table set up wjere they could make pizzas. Ours was the perfectly round and tasted great 😇.

Henry went to Baby Club yesterday and we had i
To pick him up after 30 minutes as he was too upset about not being able to play in the big kids section. Today was more successful and he stayed for nearly 3 hours. We went for a very short walk (not wanting to venture too far in case we were called again) then searched and searched Rightmove. We've booked a few house viewings but searching and researching takes up so much time. We had intended to go the gym too but ran out of time before lunch started. 

A very cool stainless steel water slide.
Cute baby bathrobes for pool time 

A frozen river on our walk

The view down into the centre of Lüsen from our mini hike

Pretty view of rhe hotel at night 

Naps on the huge comfy sofa (that I wish I could take home!) 

On the day before we left cabin fever really set in so I took the opportunity to walk to Lüsen village so I could see a little bit of Italy outside the hotel. There wasn't much to see other than a huge church for a tiny village. 
It had also snowed overnight. After 5 minutes of making a snowman Henry wanted to play in the sandpit instead.

Thoughts from the last few days:

 > I'm beginning to love having a singel duvet each! It was the same at Centre Parcs and the hotel does it too. It was weird at first but I now see the appeal - you can kick a leg out either side if you get hot, no drafty gap in the middle and no fighting for the duvet.
 > It feels like we've been killing time waiting to come back. 7 days feels too long for this hotel.
 > The last few weeks of travel haven't really felt like 'travelling'. We're not seeing much of each country, as we're staying within the hotels where the toddler friendly facilities are. Iigjt need to readjust my expectations of what I want to get out of travelling 🤔.
 > I'm craving micne pies a lot! They don't have any festive sweet things in the hotel 😔. 

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