Biking and trains

On Monday morning we slept in after our long day on Sunday. It sure felt good to get into a bed! Once we were up and moving I did some laundry (the machine still takes 2 hours and there's no drier. It's so humid here that at 8:45 p.m. some of it still isn't dry in spite of being out in the sun all day.) Leonard, Lindsay and Opa got dropped off at the train station in Ede and went to the Schippol (sp?)airport to pick up our rent-a-car. They were gone most of the day and it was Lindsay's first experience riding a train.

Oma dropped Ali, Michael, Jake, and me off at Holland's National Park. This is where the Kroller Muller Art museum is. The girls went to it on Saturday. Today we picked up "free" bikes (after paying the 7 Euro/person entrance fee) and biked through the park for 2 hours. Most of it was prairie-like grass-lands. We didn't see any wild animals although the signs alluded to some. (It must be like us never seeing a bear when we went out west!) By 5 p.m. when Oma picked us up it was thundering.

We went home for a birthday dinner and a special dessert. We ate outside but just before dessert was done it began raining. We rushed everything inside and then the sprinkles stopped shortly after-wards. Now I am sitting on the front porch of the owners of the cottage we are renting so that I can get internet service. It feels kind of funny but I won't be long. There is a pool here and Ali and the boys went for a quick dip after our bike ride. They didn't last long because there were so many kids in the pool. There is a campground on these premises as well. I took pictures of this cottage but don't want to take the time to post them. Maybe later. Keep checking back to previous posts to see if I've added things.

Tomorrow we hope to go to Amsterdam to see The Frozen Fountain. This is an art/furniture studio that Len's uncle owns. (Google it!)We may also see the Anne Frank house and some other possibilities. We'll see how much we fit in. We already warned the kids that they need to be up and in the car (completely ready) by 8 a.m. They groaned but we reminded them that we aren't in Holland/Europe just to sit around and we want to get in everything we can. We will be staying here until Friday and then we will move to Friesland. That will be a farther drive to most of what we want to see but it's how things worked.