Monday, March 21, 2011

Grass rooftops and Fish

March 12, 2011- Today we went on our second excursion.  We first went to a city called Almere, which is a pretty cool town.  All the apartment buildings were located above the stores.  

Hema, a large retail store in the Netherlands, had a huge building where each side of the building was a different color.  We also went to the top of the V & D store.  

There was grass on top of the building and a couple other apartment buildings had grass on the rooftops.  The city is one of the fastest growing cities in the Netherlands with a population around 200,000.  The night life seems like it would be a lot of fun.  

Next we went to a small town that had a shipwreck museum.  

This museum started out really boring but turned out to be a lot of fun because it had a lot of hands on stuff.  I felt like I was in a children’s museum.  Next we went to a small town called Urk.  This is primarily a fishing town since the city used to be an island.  

This town was very homey and had a cozy feeling to it.  The people were really nice and the town looked really cool.  

We walked on the docks and looked at all the boats. 

I wanted to stay longer but we had to leave.  On the way back, we ran into a castle called Muiderslot which was located in Muiden.  

Unfortunately, the castle was closed.

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