Holland - day 2 and 3

Holland - day 2 and 3, On Sunday we celebrated Anneliese's 8th birthday thanks to a wonderful effort by my brother Tim and sister in law, Leona, We enjoyed a wonderful service at Tim and Leona's Church, followed by a lovely family get together for rest of the day. The children finally got to get to know their Aunties and Uncles and cousins,
On Monday we went to the Open air Museum in Arnhem, this was a fantastic day and a awesome museum. Their were lots on interactive displays, and really old buildings to explore, a lot of the buildings were still in use with the old trades being demonstrated, paper making, oil pressing, black smith, weaving to name but a few.
We could have easily spent another day exploring, there was just so much to see and do.

Birthday girl!! Annelise had a party that she will remember for the rest of her life - very spoilt and happy girl, even had time to play on the trampoline with her cousin Naomi

Open air Museum in Arnhem

Linseed being crushed to extract oil.

It was wonderful seeing the skills of past years being kept up for future generations to learn from and appreciate.

One of many working wind mills at the museum

Awwww isn't this so pretty!!

Just one tiny corner of the museum

A small ferry the children could play on, thankfully no one fell in.

Time for fun as well

How the washing was done in the 1750's, all driven by horse or wind power.

Another picture of the museum park, the neat thing is you don't need to go to a museum to see scenes like this, just driving down country roads, almost at every corner there is a historic building of sort. Louise and the girls are standing in front off the king of windmills, built tall to catch the wind, We even saw them while driving through villages souring high above the houses.

A good work out for the lads.

There were lots of restored farm houses which gave us a real in site on how people lived in years gone by, Olivia is standing in front of a bed for the adults of the house, no lying down and having a good old stretch in those days!! 

The sculptured plants were pretty amazing, not to be repeated when we get home!!