Learning Lessons in Dutch Weather

So I decided to start daily walks today. The past few days it has been miserable with rain and clouds, but mostly just cloudy, not too much rain. So at 11:10 I started out on my walk. With my phone playing Sky Radio and very close to the meent (the local pond/lake, whatever would be in between those two....) it began to drizzle. I thought, oh well so I will get a little wet..Ill go around the meent and then go home. Well, my plans were thwarted when I came around the corner and saw the clouds went from light ash grey to dark "the fire has been burning for a while" ash grey. I knew it was going to begin pouring, so I began walking back home. By the time I reached Ringelpoel it began to pour. I began to run, step by step it felt like the drops got bigger and bigger. Im now lightly drenched....






This weekend we hit up the rommel mart in Beverwijk and had a blast. I took my big camera and got lots of really great photos. Here are a few.



































The Corn man was awesome and the first person I wanted to photograph. I did it secretly for a while then he caught me but only smiled and waved excitedly.







And finally.... Poffertjes! I got to watch them get made, but couldnt touch because of my gluten intolerance. Poo!













Last night we went to the local pannenkoeken huys (as they spell it) and I had a gluten free pancake with chopped seasoned pork, bell peppers and mushrooms with a garlic cream sauce. YUM! but I got a little tired of how much pork was on the plate and shoved it off my pancake. I ate the rest of the pancake with powdered sugar and told Arie, Lora and Bryan that I was so excited just to have a pancake that I wanted to make the best of it. Bryan mentioned that I told him earlier that I wanted to order 6 GF pancakes from them so I could have them in the fridge like Bryan has his. Arie got up, went to the hostess and ordered 5 for us to bring home with us. I had one for breakfast this morning. Im a happy camper!

Another thing, we had pizza the other night, I must make my own from a GF pizza base...Bryan had a box pizza....