Do You Know the Way?: Day 11

Today we dropped Grandpa and Melissa off at the airport. I don't have any pictures of us all together because they are on Mom DenOuden's camera. You will just have to trust me that they made it there safely. After dropping them off we headed to Delft for many adventures. We saw this car which made me laugh.

We also stopped by the Royal Delft Factory to check out the gift shop. There were many items too expensive to touch.

This hand painted tile was one of those do not touch items.

Really cool plate display outside the museum.

Chillaxing outside the gift shop.

Next we headed into downtown Delft to visit the churches and the market. We found a great parking spot next to the canal, similar to Amsterdam except this was a parallel parking job and there was no guardrail. Justin decided Dad DenOuden wasn't close enough, as you can see in this picture.

So he moved even closer to the canal. You can see his method for getting out and to safety if you look closely. We were glad he held on tight to the van.

First we went to Nieuwe Kerk or the New Church. Jeremy, Justin, and Mom went inside while the rest of us scoped out the market. All Dutch Royalty are buried here.

Sorry I couldn't explain the last pictures, but I didn't go inside the church. I found these great pictures spots and items instead. This is a cool blue heart sculpture made of blue glass.

I also found giant fresh stroopwaffels. Justin was excited to say the least.

Heel Lekker!

Delicious!

Gotta love the wooden shoes.

My tall, blond dutchman.

After taking these fabulous pictures we headed back through the markets and the others went to check out the Oude Kerk (Old Church).

Johannes Vermeer is buried here.

We even spotted a photography studio belonging to Leo den Ouden. A distant relative perhaps?

Can you find Justin and me? We are on the bridge drinking Chocomel if you couldn't find us :)

While we were in the city of Delft we found out about a little known fact about this city. There are only about three parking garages in the whole city where visitors are supposed to park. Apparently open parking with no meters does not mean free parking. Let's just say we learned this the hard way.

For dinner we met up with Magiel, the cousin of our cousins. He was kind enough to let us stay at his parent's townhouse for a few days and we enjoyed a delicious dinner with him. When he was a teenager, he came out to California to stay with Jeremy's family. It was great to see the old pictures he brought along from his time with the DenOuden's.

Magiel was nice enough to translate the Dutch menu for us, but we all ended up getting the special for the day which was amazing.