Saturday, April 25

Trip to Holland

Here are some more pictures of our trip to Holland.  The first two are some of the only tulips we saw that were blooming.  They said it has been very cold lately and the tulips haven't bloomed yet.




This is a lighthouse on Lake Michigan -- Big Red.  It is on the private property of one of the billionaire founders of Amway who has a huge mansion just up the coast from here.


Here is a man from the Netherlands who works at the village around the windmill I posted on Instagram.  He was showing us a street organ that came from the Netherlands in the 1850's or so.  It worked by pumping air into carved wooden pipes and was very fascinating (it even had two different dumbs that were also driven by air).


Here is a re-creation of a typical Dutch street from the 1800's.


This is one of the two flights of stairs we climbed to reach the top of two different sand dunes.  This staircase had 239 stairs and the other one had over 300.  We were greatly challenged by both.


We ended the day by going antiquing.  We found some flowered glasses that were exactly like the ones we have that have almost all been broken.  We bought eight and now have eleven to replace the ones we originally purchased just after our wedding.