This weekend we spent Saturday at a castle and Sunday at an art museum. We drove up to see the Muiderslot Castle. (about 15 km SE of Amsterdam) It took about 45 minutes to get there. The castle is over 700 years old, and although most of the signs were in Dutch, we got the main ideas. Also, since I'm teaching the middle ages at school, I was really into it! There were jousts to have, costumes to try on, swords to pick up, and virtual battles to hold. We had so much fun that I'm going to take my class there for a field trip!
Sunday we spent the day at the Escher Museum. We decided he must have been dyslexic, crazy or brilliant. His work is well known, and even though I totally enjoyed looking at it, Fred got dizzy and had to stop trying to make sense of the pictures. (He's SO logical!...Fred, not Escher)
Last weekend it was so cold that the canals froze. Apparently it hasn't happened here in thirteen years, and the entire country found ice skates and went outside. It's a very healthy/outdoorsy country! The windmills looked especially beautiful in the frost, I thought.
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