{"id":646,"date":"2007-05-06T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T07:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/646"},"modified":"2007-05-06T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T07:29:38","slug":"relaxing-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/646","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Xander and I are doing&#8230; nothing!&nbsp; We are just hanging around the house relaxing and enjoying not having to be anywhere or do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend was very busy&#8230;&nbsp; On Friday we were busy sorting out a few things I will mention in future posts (hehe secrets!) as well as Saturday in the day.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Saturday evening we went to our friends Christy and Paul (but I forgot my camera &#8211; boo!) for a BBQ.&nbsp; It was really nice and after it got too chilly we went inside and played some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rummikub\" target=\"_blank\">Rummikub<\/a>, which I think we all agreed I REALLY suck at.&nbsp; Xander, on the other hand, kicked our asses every game.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a beautiful day so Xander and I went back to Kinderdijk.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/641\" target=\"_blank\">last time I was there<\/a>&nbsp;it was rather cloudy and I wanted to get some more photos on a sunny day, so Xander asked if I wanted to go on Sunday morning.&nbsp; It was so beautiful and a lot more busy than the previous time.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/478111165\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Clog Boots\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/167\/478111165_efac6d010e_m.jpg\" width=\"175\" align=\"left\"><\/a>I took a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/sets\/72157600159040952\/\" target=\"_blank\">ton of windmill photos<\/a>&nbsp;but this turned out to be one of my favorite photos of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I call them &#8216;clog boots&#8217; but I&#8217;m sure there is an actual Dutch name for them.&nbsp; It&#8217;s real Dutch wooden clogs made into boots.&nbsp; They were hanging on the wall inside one of the windmills and apparently they have been there for a very long time.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I think there are some farmers here who do still wear them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine them being very easy to walk in but I guess if you are used to them it&#8217;s not so bad.&nbsp;&nbsp; They just struck me as being soooo Dutch though, I loved it!&nbsp;&nbsp; I imagined this old farmer working in the windmill, tromping around in his big wooden clogs.&nbsp;&nbsp; For a few minutes I was a tourist again.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening we went to visit our friend Alan.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#8217;s a British&nbsp;expat friend of ours who worked with Xander at Shell and I befriended at one of their colleagues birthday parties.&nbsp;&nbsp; He recently bought a little house in the center of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delft\" target=\"_blank\">Delft<\/a>, which is one of the most beautiful little cities in the Netherlands.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may know it as the city where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delftware\" target=\"_blank\">Delft Blue Pottery<\/a>&nbsp;originates from.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His house is on a tiny street in the center of the city called Trompetstraat, which he finds quite funny because he says that in the UK a Trompet is a slut.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I guess you could say his new house is on Slutstreet.<\/p>\n<p> <center><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/486062663\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Trompetstraat by Day\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/486062663_fa721528ea_m.jpg\" width=\"203\"><\/a> <a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/486062747\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Trompetstraat at Night\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/225\/486062747_35f2d84221_m.jpg\" width=\"181\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>As you can see it&#8217;s an adorable little street with a lovely view of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nieuwe_Kerk_%28Delft%29\" target=\"_blank\">Niewe Kerk<\/a>&nbsp;(New Church) in the Delft Market Square.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It was a great weekend overall, filled with friends and fun&#8230; but Xander made me promise &#8216;No social engagements!&#8217; for this weekend, which is why we are hanging around and being lazy.&nbsp;&nbsp; He really cherishes his chill out time.<\/p>\n<p>Only two sleeps until my 32nd Birthday&#8230;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Xander and I are doing&#8230; nothing!&nbsp; We are just hanging around the house relaxing and enjoying not having to be anywhere or do anything. 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