{"id":4549,"date":"2012-10-22T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T07:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:37:18","slug":"graz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Graz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments updated by Andy.<\/span><\/p>\n

We tried to make it to the kid’s museum in Graz “Frida and Fred.”<\/p>\n

Graz is pretty and colorful:
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We found nice parking on the other side of the park, and decided to walk. What we did not know was, that almost the entire park was a playground. Leilani had to stop and play with everything (Andy helped).<\/span>
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\nI think she was playing Titanic…
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And there’s lots more you can’t see here. Eventually, we got tired of taking pictures, so the parents sat down and had coffee from a kiosk in the park (how civilized) and more birthday chocolate.<\/span><\/p>\n

After 2 hours on the playground, we told her she could either play another 30 minutes and then walk around the city or go to the kid’s museum for 2 hours. Life is all about “making” choices.<\/span> She chose the kids museum. But along the way, we found some more fun things:<\/p>\n

The river Mur, right next to the park
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We found some giant eggs that looked like modern art, but Leilani immediately climbed on them and started jumping around. <\/span>I did not photoshop this one (and she landed on her feet)
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That’s the slightly modified Coat of Arms of the city of Graz, spray painted on the “playground.”
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\nWhat to do with the giant eggs? Jump of course
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We finally made it to the museum.<\/p>\n

That was the entrance. No shoes allowed in the museum. They did have stairs for he adults, but I declined and took the kids route :-)<\/p>\n

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We forgot to take pictures for the greater part, but there was an exhibition on human bodies that Leilani liked a lot.<\/p>\n

Among the highlights a plastic brain to take apart (complicated enough the high-school student in charge could not put it back together), a digestive system (easy enough that Leilani could name and place all the parts), and a skeleton (did not come apart, fortunately), all life-sized, an exercise bike for a stress test that was small enough for Leilani (and she was rated very high endurance), and compressed air mail from room to room… and soap on a rope in the washroom that really impressed Leilani.<\/p>\n

Andy had to leave the museum to feed the parking meter. Along the way he took pictures of the cool little European cars painted in nice colors.<\/span> Sonja played with photoshop:
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