Sundays in Ljubljana

Sundays here are truly leisure days.  Nothing is open...the market is closed, shops are closed, grocery stores are closed...so it is very, very quiet.  There's really not much that you can do.  For many locals, Sundays are reserved for family and they head out to the country or to one of the numerous parks around the city.

We headed over to Tivoli Park (pronounced TIV-uh-lee) for the first time today and spent our afternoon there.  Tivoli is a huge park on the western edge of the city center (a ten-minute walk from our apartment) that is as big as the city center itself.  I suppose it's a lot like Central Park: it has a ton of wide open space, trails through the woods, a zoo, an ice skating rink, and, of course, a playground.   

Today, we opted for the playground.  Sy must have climbed up the "hill of tires" and gone down the big slide fifty times and couldn't have been happier.  He made friends with a little Slovenian girl and her parents, none of whom spoke English, which was very amusing.  Rosetta and Celia were excited to see two little girls with Hello Kitty hats on and had lots of fun on the "Teeter Tottie".