Life here in the Netherlands is going along well and we are experiencing lots of things. Below is a quick overview of some of the things that we've been up too!

At church we had our ladies day (19/4) which was fabulous .... lots of laughs and learning. We had some families from Dusseldorf, Germany come to town for it too and one of the families stayed with us.

Marcel started his Monday night dutch course! There is only one other lady doing the course with him so they should cover quite alot of material over the 10 weeks!

A day in the Centrum with Jikke and then dropping by the Rijks Museum (we feel really spoilt to be able to drop in when we can!)

On the 30 April each year is Koninginnedag! Koninginnedag or Queen's Day is a national holiday that started with the current queen's (Beatrix) grandmother: April 30 is actually Beatrix' mother's birthday but it was dicided when Beatrix came to the throne that Queen's Day would be celebrated on April 30th each year. Each Koninginnedag the queen visits 2 cities in the Netherlands and this year one of the cities was Franeker. So we had the opportunity to visit with our friends again in Franeker enjoying a day of celebrations and lots of orange. To say that the Dutch love their orange is an understatement! So getting into the spirit of the day we started collecting the orange: hairspray, glasses, headbands, wig, shirts, and the Holland flag. So we were ready to meet the royal family . A few favourite piccies!

This photo made it into one of the national papers! One of the reporters on the day was kind enough to interview us ~ if you are interested in seeing the article let me know I'll send it to you on PDF

Notice the orange beard!

Queen Beatrix in pink

Princess Maxima ~ we shook hands with her back in Australia when her and the crown prince visited for the 400year celebrations a couple of years back

We had such a fun day!!