Saturday

A busy day spent with the other AFS kids in my area. It was free museum weekend so guess what we did? Go to museums! Three to be precise.

First the Clog Museum where they also make and sell cloggs. We were able to see several steps in the making prosses and then explore the museum bit. After that we all got to paint our own clog to take home.

High heel clogs, for the stylish Dutch.

Helen from New Zealand painting her clog.

Next it was to a sort of farm museum.

They had the old tuels, scale models, practice cows to milk, all the good farm stuff.

And then we made our own Dutch style (aka really thin like crepes) pancakes. Yum. Actually I didnt really make my own but relied on one of our AFS volunteers who had actual skill and was able to flip my pancake by tossing it out of the pan, into the air, and then having it land back in the pan on the other side where it could continue to sizzle deliciously.
They also had some stilts we could practice on. It looks easy but its not.

The last museum was a hand made planiterium that I had already been to. Its beautiful and amazing but they dont allow pictures so.

The man who built lived back in the day, something like the 16 hundreds, and was a wool proccesor by profession. He was a true beliver in the Sun ant the middle of our galaxy theory and built the perfect modle to proove it. He wasnt highly educated and did all of the reaserch and building in his free time (yes it took a very very long time).

What you end up with is the ceiling of the house (because there was really only one main room in this house) being a perfet model of the Sun and all known planets with their moons. They all go around at the correct speed and there is also a phases of the moon thing and time and date thing that all work perfectly (the time is a little off because he used sun-dial time but really).

Its all powered by a pedulum clock.

We finished the day at a pizzarea where I had an onion and asperigouse pizza.