January 1st - A new year
New Years Day - and a Sunday - every shop in town is closed. We took the opportunity to go for a walk to explore for the 'animal petting park' Jake had found on his early December visit. Walking along the railroad tracks we discovered many pigeon lofts (and even a pony!). We did find the petting park (closed today, unfortunately). Nearby there also seems to be a fruit grocer. So we will have to return during business hours to explore that option. Our little fruititarian is subsisting entirely on apples and oranges right now. Although it is her own fault that she won't eat appelbolen, a peeled, cored apple filled with some sort of almond sugar and wrapped in pastry then baked. Elena refuses to eat an apple not in the raw or sauced state.
The other thing we admired was the huge amount of spent round littering the streets. We tried to go to bed early intenting to sleep of some more exhaustion and jet lag, however, the Dutch would not dream of letting anyone sleep through such an important time.
Therefore, the entire country, which by the way has extremely strict gun laws forbiding such explosive things, buys huge amounts fireworks and then shoots them off for the hours surrounding the midnight. People were launching full sized fireworks from the street, roof tops, wine bottles, the bit of grass around poor small trees, where ever they could find. New Years Day, the city sends out huge crews of garabage workers who sweep and leaf blow huge sections of the city.
Following our jaunt on foot, we returned to the house and picked up our bikes and headed off to learn the way to Ukkie (Elena's new childcare) and try to get from Ukkie to the University.
Elena's childcare is about 10 minutes by bike from the house. The University is about 20 minutes from Ukkie. It is also only about 20 minutes from the house (Ukkie is a slight bit out of the way). It was quite a quick commute. We explored the lovely nearby park and visited the geese (Elena has been talking a lot about Petuna, Grandpa Scott's goose). Elena fell asleep in her bike seat on the way home.
The other thing we admired was the huge amount of spent round littering the streets. We tried to go to bed early intenting to sleep of some more exhaustion and jet lag, however, the Dutch would not dream of letting anyone sleep through such an important time.
Therefore, the entire country, which by the way has extremely strict gun laws forbiding such explosive things, buys huge amounts fireworks and then shoots them off for the hours surrounding the midnight. People were launching full sized fireworks from the street, roof tops, wine bottles, the bit of grass around poor small trees, where ever they could find. New Years Day, the city sends out huge crews of garabage workers who sweep and leaf blow huge sections of the city. Following our jaunt on foot, we returned to the house and picked up our bikes and headed off to learn the way to Ukkie (Elena's new childcare) and try to get from Ukkie to the University.
Elena's childcare is about 10 minutes by bike from the house. The University is about 20 minutes from Ukkie. It is also only about 20 minutes from the house (Ukkie is a slight bit out of the way). It was quite a quick commute. We explored the lovely nearby park and visited the geese (Elena has been talking a lot about Petuna, Grandpa Scott's goose). Elena fell asleep in her bike seat on the way home.
posted by Erin K. | 5:30 PM
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