not that i'm complaining or anything... we drove from belgium to what felt like all over southern holland.. which was cool.. we saw the delta works, eventually, which was neat, but not all that its hyped up to be.. at least the part we went to.. my mom's uncle made sure we were on our way, and we followed him all the way to zeeland, to make sure we didn't get lost. i don't think he understood the concept of a gps.. every 10 minutes or so, he would pull over(on a highway) and give us a history lesson; so a trip that would have taken 15 minutes, took 1 hour... and you'll never guess what happened.. we were driving, you know, going 80 km/h on a 120 km/ hour highway.. got off, got to a roundabout.. aannd he stops.. yep, right in the middle of a roundabout... if that's not dangerous, i don't know what is :P so after my mom convinced him that we could find our own way(hehe) we went to middleburg.. i don't know if you've heard of it, but its a little island, right before the deltaworks.. it was amazing.. beautiful scenery and old, old, old buildings... lots of shopping.. one of the things i love about the netherlands, is that all the towns have a centrum where all the stores are located.. not like in canada where you have to drive all over the place.. its peaceful here and you can find a bakery pretty much anywhere.. i love it. you can get a fresh crossant, or a fresh cookie, for cheap... so here's a story for ya... so i go into this bakery. and i see on the menu: boderkoek. you know what boderkoek is, right?? so i think "yumm.. i have to get some of that."and i ask for it, the lady smiles at me, and gives me a crossant.. yep.. i say "no i wanted boderkoek.." in the nicest possible way, and she's like, ÿes, yes, this is boderkoek.. that will be .84 cents.." i don't really know what she was thinking, but i just paid for it and was on my way... if boderkoek is a crossant, what is boderkoek???? haha.. and that's my interesting story...
so then we went and drove through all these little towns, that all looked the same, but different, you know?? and we ended up in brielle,again, where my opa langendoen grew up.. so we looked around.. and then we sat down for supper at this amazing restaurant.. no joke.. it was fabulous.. sitting outside, eating bitterballen(round croquettes) then gettting the best tomato soup i've ever had.. it was great...
so we were gonna stay in a hotel somewhere thursday night, but i convinced my mom to go straight to noordwijk.. so that's what we did. we got all our things inside, and it was about 8:00.. we sat outside; me and erika went to the beach(it took us a while.. who knew.. the beach is pretty much on half the country, and we couldn't find it.. :) then we got back around 10:00 and went to bed.. we weren't really tired so me and erika played i spy in the dark.. not very easy, i tell ya...
and that was our day thursday :P
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