Day 8

Wow. I cannot believe it is day 8 already, but yet it seems like we have done so much! So after yesterday's city visit, we were a little tired and not all too excited about today's 8 hour visit to Den Haag. But, after the fact, it was a great great day. We left for Den Haag at 9 am and it was only about a 15 min train ride. When we got there, we walked around the city for a couple hours or so and got to see the Hague and Parliment and the Queen's castle. It was really really neat! We were very lucky because when we went to where the Queen of the Netherlands lives, she was about to leave with some ambassadors, which is a big deal. So we got to go to a good spot to take pictures, and the carriages and horses and the band and all that came out (like in a parade) and then the carraiges finally went around to the front of the castle, the doors open, the band starting playing music, and out came the queen and some other people and the loaded in the carriage and took off. Then, a minute later, another carriage arrived to drop off some other ambassadors at the castle. So they all got out and stood there for awhile. Then some guy went up to the head ambassador man and took him around in a circle to see the band and all that, they he came back around to where the others were standing, and then the band played again until the walked inside. It was really cool to see! Then we walked to a museum called Escher in het Paleis. It was all work by Paleis. It was pretty neat. After that we ate lunch. We brought our own PB and J and made the sandwiches in the middle of the city center by a statue of William the Silent. After lunch we went to two more museums, one was a photography museum with another artist who made cars out of bones and stuff like that. I think it was maybe called the Koorenhuis....maybe. Then we went to our last museum of the day, the Gemeente Museum. This is a hugeee museum full of many different kinds of art. I enjoyed all three of them a lot. After that, we took a train to the train station, and then a train back to Leiden and got back around 5. Now we are going to eat supper (grilled cheese and mashed potatoes) (our fav :)) and get ready for tomorrow. All we have tomorrow is Drawing class, so hopefully we can go shopping, and instead of Germany, we are going to Brussels, Belgium on Friday. Then on Saturday we are going to the market again and to Amterdam to see the Anne Frank House....as of now that is :)