Sunday, 27 April 2014

Easter holidays - part 3 King's Day!!


Saturday, April 26th was the first King's Day that the Netherlands has celebrated in over 120 years.

 
If the King needed a Style Queen, this was his gal.


























Everyone wears orange and the city of Amsterdam turns into one giant yard sale (followed by one giant party boat/club). In fact, one is not allowed to sell things without a permit outdoors the rest of the year. Vondelpark was the place to head for family-friendly wares.


Seb bargaining for some Playmobil

Can't figure out if this is anti-monarchy sentiment

This certainly is

Seb's major find - a wave board

the siblings practicing on it

Digging into a traditional prize bin


our haul (before I got some purple shoes for me and a horse pillowcase for S2)

our kids had made plastic band bracelets in the national colours and so set up a stall and earned about 4 Euros in an hour
these American kids were customers
Everyone got orange

my attempt to blend in

checking out fossils with our hosts

and then around 4 pm, the mood started to change

and the canals got a bit crazy

the kids were bemused and so we headed home all happy



What a fabulous day!!

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