One of the fun things we did over this past month was take our new/borrowed camper for a camping trip in Holland. As some of you know, Steve bought a camper last month with big plans to sell it in the UK, with some help from a friend of his in Wales. Since we had it for a month we decided to use it and see what we think about camping in an RV. I absolutely loved the camping. The driving 5 hours there and back with children not hunkered down was not my favorite thing. Those things really need more seat belts in them.
We left Sunday (mother's day) after church for 5-6 hour drive to Holland. We all took a nap on the way, so our 12:30am arrival didn't bother us as much as it could have. We left the GPS for Scott and Alicia to find their way to Holland the next day, and realized when we got there, that our printed directions didn't get us all the way to our camping spot. When we finally found it, we saw that our directions had stopped about 5 miles shy of the campground. But we did find it, and we all snuggled into our comfy beds and went to sleep.
The next day we took a nice walk to find the North Sea which was suppose to be short walk from the campground. Well...we never found it, but we enjoyed the walk anyway.
Then we went home for a nap in the camper. It was a fabulous nap. When Alicia and Scott got there in the afternoon, we went out to dinner.
The next day we went to the Tulip Park (Keukenhof) to see the flowers, but sadly we were a little too late. They had cut most of the flowers at the park, and we were left looking at a bunch of stems. What shocked us is that they still charged us full price! Steve and I have been there before with his parents, and there was a huge difference in what we were looking at. How dare they charge full price when there was nothing left to see.
After seeing the tulip stems we went to a place called Zaanse Schans and it did not disappoint. It is a great little touristy place where you get to see all the unique things of Holland. Wooden shoes, cheese, and windmills. We had a wonderful time there, and the weather was great for us all day.
The boys watching some wooden shoes be made.
Steven's infamous wooden shoes.
4 comments:
Camping sounds like so much fun! Especially when the beds are ready. I am happy that you got to do that with the camper. It looks like a good size RV to have.
Teresa!!! I came across your blog after a LONG stream of links starting with my sister-in-laws blog! Crazy! It was SO fun to get to catch up on your life. I would love to hear from you. It was fun finding Natalie's blog too!
That looked like so much fun! You guys are so lucky to be so close to the different tourist areas. Great pictures!!!
What an awesome trip, so neat that your family has been so lucky to live in Europe, what awesome history there is over there! You have beautiful children.
Kiahna
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