Gruenhundstrasse: Welkom op de Nederland

"Welkom op de Nederland!" means "Welcome to the Netherlands" in Dutch.

For spring break we went to the Netherlands. Luckily, we did not stay in the Bad Hotel. (But you can see it here.)

The cool thing about the Netherlands is that it is pretty flat which means it's good for biking. And good for planting lots and lots of flowers that we went to see because it was the right time of year.

We saw lots of daffodils.

And hyacinth.

Yep. Fields and fields.

As you may recall, the Netherlands has more bikes per capita than any other country. So what did we do? We rented some bikes and rode through the fields.

What do you do after a long bike ride? You go and get a humongous pancake covered in Nutella and make a weird face for the camera.

Or you can get one with sugar and a chunk of butter in the middle (Dad).

Or if you are more adventurous, you can get one with strawberries, whipped cream and ice cream (Mom.)

You can even get one with cheese, ham, and eggs. (Me!) Eat them up, yum. And if that's not enough to fill you up, you can even order a frikandel.

What the frik is a frikkin frikandel? Well, I'll frikkin tell you. It's a Dutch sausage and it's frikkin awesome! What the frik were you expecting? Another frikkin pancake?

Now here's a frikkin windmill.

Okay. Let me tell you something about cheese. It's frikkin delicious. And they make a ton of it here in the Netherlands. In fact, they also export the most cheese of any country on earth. That's frikkin awesome! (Try the two-year-old goat cheese. Eat it up, yum. It's frikkin delicious!)

We went to a place called Zaanse Schans, where they have a bunch of windmills.

They all have names, and this one is called 'De Kat' (which roughly translated means 'the cat.')

You can go inside for a small fee and see how it works.

De Kat is the last remaining paint mill on earth. They crush minerals and rocks and stuff into the pigment powders that are used by artists to create paints. Famous Dutch artists like Vermeer and Rembrandt would have got their pigments from a mill like this.

And then my dad realized that he had a camera and there were windmills frikkin everywhere.

So you get to see the windmills from every frikkin angle.

I'm frikkin tired of it.

How many windmills can you spot?

Can you spot the Dutch flag here? Red, white and blue.

This one was built in 1667. Quite modern.

So many frikkin windmills!

They got frikkin paper windmills too.

Even a frikkin windmill reflection on the back of a Suzuki!

Just so you know...they're open.

There was a cute little village with old Dutch buildings including a cheese maker-shop-factory-thing, a shoe maker-shop-factory-thing, and a chocolate maker-shop-factory-thing.