Wanderings and Ramblings : A rainy afternoon at Playmobil Funpark

This past weekend the kids attended a Society of Creative Anachronism event. When we picked them up late Sunday morning, we realized that we were quite near Playmobil Funpark--so, naturally, we decided to pop in there for the afternoon, have some lunch and play around a bit--even if it was rainy (since we were not making a special drive down just for that).

The rain kept most other people at home, which gave us a chance to play on some of the more popular things, that have limited capacity--which we always leave for young kids when there are little ones there wanting to use them.

Over half of the rafts were floating around unused--and those are always so fun (and, can you imagine in the US, having these water rides unattended by park staff, and allowing free use of them? Yes, the water is only about 2 feet deep, but it still would just not fly back home, I don't think):

I had the chance to get some nicer photos of one of the larger and prettier water play areas--apparently none of the few park visitors wanted to get wetter than the rain was making them:

It was the first time we ever had the chance to throw balls at the "liquor" bottles in the saloon in the Wild West section, as well as dinking around in some of the other spots there:

The newer balance course parks, which were jammed packed on our last visit, were totally empty, and surprisingly not too slippery to play on. I finally got some good photos to show what that is like:

And here is another of the water play areas, where you can see the backside of water without hearing any bad jokes (a reference to the Jungle Cruise at Disney, for those of you who may be confused by my comment):

(NOTE: I did not take photos of the more impressive, castle, ship, treehouses, etc, because I have many of those in my prior blog posts about this park, and those were harder areas to negotiate in the rain).

Eventually, we headed to the indoor, HOB center. I am always amazed at what a good job the company does at keeping the playmobil sets that are out for playing with in tip top condition (this is the most heavily staffed area of the park--and items are always clean and in good repair). Some of the remote control items have to be checked out and have a time limit--though there were no waitlists this weekend. Dave and Rio checked out the crane and looked like little kids on Christmas morning:

There was a special display up on the top level of the HOB, which I gather will be there through the summer--celebrating the 40th birthday of Playmobil toys this year. There were three very impressive displays that personal collectors have put together and loaned to the park. We really enjoyed looking at the details of these.

African Safari (using pieces from many series, including Ancient Egypt, Wild West, and the Zoos):