This morning we awoke to another beautiful weather day! The sun is shining and we have happy and rested travellers.

We visited a cheese and wooden shoe farm this morning. Roel was an entertaining man who showed us how he makes it all. Dana may not get Kathy back as Roel enjoyed Kathy as his assistant. He kept calling her “happy mommy woman” to the crowd’s amusement. The demonstrations were pretty interesting. There are a few wooden shoes and Gouda cheese wheels coming home to Canada.

We then visited a windmill farm which was very similar to Disney World at Christmas – total tourist trap with many, many people.

We had lunch at a little seaside village where about a gazillion other people happened to visit at the same time as us. Some of the boys found some fries to try yuppie sauce with. The sauce is made of mayo and curry. They seemed to enjoy it!

Canals are hand-dug ditches. When water isn’t salt-water, it is called sweet water.

We had a tour guide for the city of Amsterdam. She brought us a Dutch treat “street waffle” which were little wafer cookies. Pretty tasty! There may be a few samples coming home.

• May 4 Remembrance Service

• May 5 Liberation Day

The Anne Frank Museum was significant and meaningful for all. Everyone was extra attentive and listened to every component in the audio section. Touring the rooms where the family hid for the soul reason that they Jewish makes one develop new hate for Adolf Hilter.

Amsterdam home owners used to pay taxes on the width of their house. Note the picture of Landon and Marshall. That house didn’t have high taxes as the boys could each touch the far edge of the house on both sides and stand in the middle.

Supper or dinner had us having chicken kabobs with peanut sauce. Quite delicious!

The entire group has been incredibly busy being toured and educated so the free time in Amsterdam tonight was quite enjoyable. They all had stories to share! We had 3 basic rules that the kids had to follow. You can ask them what they were! 🤪

Tomorrow is another busy travel day as we leave the Netherlands and head towards Belgium on our way to Paris. All kids have been asked and they say they are having a good time.

Today, the Fitbit counted 11km of walking.