We celebrated Queensday yesterday

Yesterday all the Dutch were merry, because we celebrated Queensday!! Hurray, hurray, long live our Queen!!!

Everyone is (almost) obliged to wear something orange, so the children were dressed appropriately.

We ventured out to the free market as early as we could (which was after 9 a.m. but still!) and already there were quite a lot of people there, but a little later it was so busy that at places the crowd was hardly moving anymore.

Luckily we decided to carry Linus around instead of taking the pram with us.

It was a very successful morning. We all scored some great bargains, the children payed games and Linus behaved very well.

It's so much fun to see that people sell the strangest things on Queensday... I just had to take a photo of this mountain of ugly dolls.

This was my modest haul:

Fabric (love the teapot fabric!)

And two adorable prints. I fell in love with the one on the left immediately. These will definitely be reframed and hung somewhere nice.

So all in all a very good day that we ended with an indoor bbq.

Read more about Queensday and what we did previous years here and here.

Comments

[beki]

That sounds like fun. The pile of baby dolls is creepy!

[heidi]

well happy queensday to you! golly that linus is too cute! looks like a great haul.

[lera]

I see Linus is snuggling in an orange blankie, too, little cutie pie.

I am loving the mountain of ugly dolls. Way too funny.

[claudia]

Happy Queen´s day!!!

[Kajsa]

One day I would like to visit Holland om this orange day, it sounds like so much fun!