We had a nice Uber driver (despite Stephen saying Uber would never find us at the boat.) He asked what our plans were and confirmed we had planned appropriately with enough scheduled activities as well as downtime.

Carey decided to suggest he take a trip to Kinderdijk to possibly find their tour guide who was single and cute because he thought they might be a good match since both of them were nice. Look at him over here making potential matches!

We arrived at our less than ideal apartment. It’s a two bed one bath but really there’s only one actual bedroom. The other bed is on a partial wall behind the couch. Not exactly sure why we booked this and I’d tried to warn Greg before the trip we might want to eat our deposit and find something else but here we are. It’s not like we aren’t used to tiny quarters on the boat….it just really helps when there is free food and endless drinks.

After some jockeying about who would sleep where we headed out to see some more sights and to find lunch. Mainly lunch for me. I’m not used to waiting so long in between meals!

We ended up finding an outdoor cafe with some seats in the shade. It was a little chilly at first but the sun eventually made its way around to our table and warmed us up.

The menu wasn’t the most robust so I went with the bacon cheeseburger. It was so good. Can’t tell you the last time I had a cheeseburger or fries.

My Coke Zero came with what I thought was a straw. Nope just a plastic stir stick of some sort. How are straws not a thing here but yet they put this giant non useful plastic thing in my drink? So confusing.

There was a really irritating family of four sitting basically at our table since the tables are so close. They were from Florida and were with their two boys traveling apparently for “mommy’s work event.” We didn’t actually talk to them, I just know all this from listening to them. (I wasn’t eavesdropping. I was literally trying not to listen so I wasn’t in a state of constant annoyance but was unsuccessful.)

One son ordered a pancake and they brought out a tall round shaker thing of powdered sugar. It actually said sugar. The dad picked it up when his food came thinking it was salt and put it on his fries. (Mind you the salt and pepper grinders were on the table in front of him and look just like any that you’d find in the states.) He then had a mini meltdown because his fries were covered in sugar and had to ask the waiter to bring him new fries.

Meanwhile said kid with pancake was a baby because he didn’t like said pancake and the dad kept telling him things taste different not in the US and you basically need to put your big boy pants on and eat it. You know like he did with the fries.

Mom had to order him a special bowl of pasta just like she did for the other son because he refused to eat the pancake. When his pasta came he couldn’t eat it until he got new silverware because his had syrup on it.

Oh and the youngest kid ordered hot chocolate with whipped cream on the side. Is that a thing?

Our Uber driver had said that people here get annoyed with tourists. Not surprising.

There was some activity going on near our table at the canal that appeared to be some sort of commercial or movie being filmed. They had some guy riding his bike in the same area as they filmed.

We got a better look and to watch the action for a bit as Carey and Linda walked into a little shop to buy a small piece of artwork. While they were paying the artist painted their names entertwined in calligraphy which means they will live happily ever after together and that Linda will keep her beauty. The only problem is he wrote Linda and Garey. Hope that misspelling isn’t bad juju since apparently he holds such great power by just painting peoples names.

But back to the movie….

We were also finished with our outing and made our way back home to do a little work in our super comfy apartment.