Kinderdijk

This is the Kinderdijk! My second visit to a World Heritage Site! These windmills are fascinating, and they are centuries old! They use to be the way they drained the water from the land. It’s done so by moving the water up-hill and dumping it into the river which takes it back to the ocean. They have more modern equipment that does it now but this is how it use to work. The Dutch are really innovative thinkers. The University arranged this excursion which was really nice. We went on the Pancake boat (Panenkoekenboot) and had an amazing dinner of pancakes! Their pancakes here are really different, they had the option of 3 different types, apple, bacon, or plain. What you do is you have this thin pancake about the thickness of a tortilla with fruit cooked into it, or bacon, and you go through what appears to be a salad bar but it’s a pancake bar. There are different meats, cheeses, butters, spreads, chocolate, sprinkles, fruits, and about anything else you could put on a pancake! They eat them sort of like omelets, folding one side over and then cutting them into pieces. They are amazing! Never had such good pancakes. It’s funny because the Dutch are so happy and friendly and as one of my friends said, "You can tell they are so happy because the put sprinkles on everything!" Which is absolutely true! They have toast, but it’s really just bread and you can put this chocolate hazelnut spread over it and then chocolate sprinkles and honey, or you could stick with peanut butter and then chocolate and ect.. The options are limitless... It’s so much fun.

This is Rotterdam's skyline at night. It's such an amazing city! I love it here, its feels almost like the city was made for me!