This past weekend, Jay and I took a trip up to the Netherlands to see all of the tulips. We went to the famous Keukenhof Garden. It is a 13 acre park that is LOADED with flowers, mostly tulips. The park had trails everywhere, ponds, playground equipment, mazes out of bushes, and lots of ice cream. There were so many things to do if looking at all of the flowers wasn't enough. I was in paradise seeing everything. I don't think Jay was as excited, but he admits that it was neat to see.
The Tulip Parade!
That evening, we took a train up to Amsterdam to check out the city live. That place sure does have a night life. We quickly saw the Red Light District, which was very hard to miss. People were all over the streets. We were offered drugs only once, so we thought that was pretty good. We quickly realized that this really wasn't a town for us. We took the train back home and got to our hotel a little after 2:00 in the morning. That was enough Amsterdam for us.
Bikes were EVERYWHERE!
This would be Jay inside their version of a male toilet.
The next day, we went to a little village that has been kept looking like the 17th century. There were six working wind mills that still produced things. There was also a cheese factory, clock factory, wooden shoe store, and an old grocery store. This is the Netherlands that we had pictured in our heads. We were glad we took the time to come up to this place and check it out. We also had to buy a pair of clogs. Couldn't be in the Netherlands without getting at least one pair!
These were my favorite pairs out of them all!
3 comments:
Love the beautiful flower pictures! Your hair has gotten so long, Gina! (Two totally random thoughts-but wanted to tell you both of them!)
What fun! Too bad we can't be having those lovely colors here right now. So thanks for sharing your travels and finds!
I am glad you got to go check it out! I went to the flower parade and park last year...I just loved it. Glad you two were able to get away again and enjoy some more of Europe!
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