April 17, 2011-Today was Palm Sunday and I decided to go to Vineyard church in downtown Amsterdam. I went there with Dan, Matt Warren, and Anna. The service was very different from what I am used to. The church was very small and located in the basement of a building alongside a canal. This church was very small with only about 80 people who attend. It felt like worshipping in a living room, which was really nice. The whole service was done in both English and Dutch. The preacher would say a sentence in English and another person would translate into Dutch which took a while to get adjusted to.
Later that day, we went on an excursion to see the tulips. While driving to the fields, we first drove through a town where everyone seemed to drive super nice and old cars!
We drove by the tulips fields and saw all the different colored flowers.
It was very beautiful! A couple guys and I decided we wanted to come back and bike through the fields later. (More information on the tulip fields will come in a later post) We continued on and went to Amsterdamse duinwaterleiding, or the Amsterdam Dune Water Supply located in Zandvoort. This place currently holds much of Amsterdam’s drinking water and also serves as a wildlife preservation park.
This park is made up of approximately 8600 acres of woodlands, paths, dunes, and water collection and treatment areas. This water is pumped to Amsterdam for use there. This park is a good way to collect drinking water for Amsterdam as the process of collecting water is natural. Also, this area is a great place for wildlife and for hiking. The park currently holds enough water to supply Amsterdam with enough water for several months. This is a great system for collecting, holding and distributing water. The Dutch definitely know how to work with water!
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