Do You Know the Way?: Day 12

Today we left the townhouse in Heerhugowaard and headed to the cheese market in Alkmaar. Before we started packing we decided that Justin could probably fit in our duffle bag if he tried. Here is his first attempt.

Second attempt. Don't worry, he had a plane ticket and we had stuff to pack in the bag, so this isn't how he traveled back to Budapest.

The view from the townhouse.

Getting ready to go.

The outside of where we stayed.

Alkmaar

Awesome Cheese Market.

Music was being made by this Calliope. Pretty cool if you ask me.

Beautiful flowers sold in the street markets.

We took a canal tour of Alkmaar. It was fantastic. A definite highlight of our trip to the Netherlands if you ask me. Here is our Captain.

Justin loves us. Can't you tell?

Dan and Jennifer

All five of the kids

This is the drawbridge operator. She had to raise all three drawbridges that we went through. She raises and lowers the bridge, goes on her bike to the next bridge, and does this three times. It's a pretty funny sight to see.

Homes along the canal.

Houseboats

We were able to get up close to a few traditional windmills which was pretty cool.

This was the boat we took. We sat in the uncovered part in the back. The lady in green was the bartender in the back of the boat. Too bad she didn't see the no smoking signs posted on the boat.

This is what lunch looks like on most days in the Netherlands. We make sandwiches and often eat in a park, or in this case, the parking garage.

After Alkmaar we headed to Haarlem, where aparently Dad DenOuden's grandpa owned land at one time. We wanted to see the Corrie ten Boom museum, but we missed the tour time. Maybe next time.

We stopped at McDonald's to get coffee and ice cream and saw this appropriate sign. It says "Thanks and goodbye."

On the way to the airport we had another IKEA sighting. No time for Swedish meatballs, we were headed for the airport.

KLM, only the best airline ever...according to me. Justin says British Airways is the best, but I'll have to take his word for it. There were pieces of the plane near the airline store, so we decided to take pictures.