Fun day today. Disappointingly, we discovered that the owls we were hoping to see are, for some reason, not available right now, so we decided that we'd do something else we'd been considering instead: taking an electric boat out on the lake for half an hour and having an enjoyable drift around.
I mentioned yesterday that I enjoy being in or on the water, so this boat trip was very enjoyable. Being an electric boat, there wasn't a lot to think about; all you had to do was use a joystick to steer left and right, press a button to choose between very slow and quite slow, and flip a little switch to choose between forwards and backwards.
Our half hour on the lake was thoroughly pleasant. The lake itself is fairly small, so half an hour was enough to do a good three laps of it, but each time we got to see some slightly different things — mostly various types of bird, to be honest, including Canada geese, mallard ducks and moorhens — as well as admiring the bravery of those people crazy enough to do the zipline over the lake. I did a zipline once when I was a Cub Scout, if I remember correctly, and it was fun; even if I wasn't too heavy for it as I am now, I'm not sure I'd do it today!
We followed up our little boat trip with a late lunch at The Pancake House, which appears to be a fixture in all the Center Parcs sites. Here, you can get Dutch or American-style pancakes with a variety of sweet and savoury toppings, and they're always delicious. Andie went for a Mexican-inspired one today, while I went for a "Dutch Apple" one with baked apple slices, sultanas, cinnamon sugar, whipped cream, ice cream and toffee sauce. Very, very good indeed.
Tomorrow we're probably going to go and play some minigolf and spend some time in the pool. And eat cake. This week is going by far too quickly for my liking, but I think we're making the most of the opportunity to relax!
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