Queen's Day

As you may know, April 30 is Queen's Day in Holland, a day to celebrate the birthday of the former Queen (and the day the current Queen was crowned)... primarily by wearing orange, consuming street food and drink, and buying lots of things you don't need from all of your neighbors all along the street. Basically, all of Amsterdam turns into a giant orange street fair/party/flea market.

Of course, I just wanted to fit in:

Unfortunately, though, I had no orange pants. Albert, on the other hand, donned a beautiful orange cape, and earned enough money playing flute to buy us two sandwiches!


Here's our booty: Krissy's roller skates (€3), Albert's roller skates (€9), two Asterix books and a Mongolian hat (€9), knee pads (€1.50), Krissy's roller skates (€0.50), two pairs of shoes (€4).

Oh, but we also managed to get some free booty: a Condomerie t-shirt, an Ann Rice novel (I didn't want this! But a guy was selling delicious chocolate-cherry cupcakes that I did want, and refused to sell me a cupcake unless I also took a book. In the end, I got two cupcakes for €1.50, saving 50 cents by taking the book.), golden coasters, black & orange balloons, three psychadlic ties, a sweater-dress, a leather purse, a paisely scarf, and a cute green t-shirt. Total for these: negative €0.50 (from what I saved on the cupcakes).

All in all, a very nice Queen's Day. Well, except for the tragedy with the crazy guy running people over, but... personally, I had a nice day.