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Ask Rob’s Aunt, I was obsessed with two things while in Holland. 1) I MUST see windmills and 2) I MUST go fishing. So Rob’s Cousin took us to the countryside to see a bunch of windmills. I didn’t realize that most of the world’s pigments for paint and clothing come from the grinding of pigments and earth done by these windmills, but ALSO, they have these HUGE flower farms all over the countryside. Apparently, flowers are one of Holland’s biggest exports. You just don’t think about flowers traveling that far to become an “I Love You” or “Please forgive me” message for someone else. Talk about a friendly peaceful country..Instead of Oil or Diamonds, they are trading paints and flowers…LOL

While walking around we saw a friendly Ram and Rob decided that he was the “Ram Whisperer” and jumped the fence to make friends with him. Although, NOT a smart thing to do OR a good influence on his little 11 year old cousin (since she jumped the fence too!) it worked out ok and the Ram was quite friendly.

I have NO idea what this sign says, but then again I experienced PLENTY of that while on this trip!

SO two other things happened that were amazing One: Rob was able to meet his 98 year old great aunt, that he had not seen since he was like 4 years old! It was a pretty special event and I HAVE to show it.

AND TWO: I went fishing and caught two fish! I have photo proof, but you will have to wait to see since they are on his Aunt’s camera…but they were HUGE!!!….actually they were like 3 inches long, but I was SO proud. I caught them on left-over bread from dinner AND in the rain. So Rob’s Uncle Keven felt bad and wanted me to have better bait the next day to catch better fish. I will NEVER forget the next day when I walked in and he handed me a bag of maggots as a gift! I didn’t know what to say. It came out something like ” Wow….. that is SO sweet. Um,… No one has ever bought me a bag of maggots before…..” LOL That’s up there on my gift list let me tell you..