The Hague: Day 3

Today was supposed to be our beach day. There's a beautiful beach about a 15-20 minute walk away from our hotel and we were looking forward to enjoying it. The weather, however, didn't want to cooperate. We checked the weather the first day we got here and it was supposed to be mostly sunny and mid 70s. It was overcast and upper 60s instead. Not as much fun for beaches. But we still tried to make the most of it and went anyways. This is one of the cute streets we walked along to get there:

This was closer to the beach. They had the flags of all the countries in the European Union (we think...)

And here is the lovely (cold) beach:

We had lunch at one of the cafes on the beach...and waited about an hour to get our mediocre/overpriced food. But hey, we're in Europe! So we're not really complaining. After the beach, we stopped at the grocery store to pick up some stuff for dinner, and went back to the hotel. We spent the rest of the day reading/writing/watching hotel television. Another very relaxing day for us, so now we are fully ready to move on to tons of sight-seeing in Bruges, our last stop on the trip! 3 days left!

The Hague: Day 2

Today was lovely. It probably won't be too interesting for you to read about, but we had a great time. It's been raining here for a good part of the day, so we stayed in for a lot of it. Greg kept singing this song from Sesame Street:




I guess it's from the 80's so it's just a little before my time. Greg is old.


Anyway, we did get out of the hotel to take the 10 minute walk to a nearby shopping center where we picked up some cereal, milk, and bread for breakfast/lunch (the hotel breakfast here is like $20 a person). This is the cute area:

But most of our day was spent doing this:

Greg finished reading The Brothers Karamazov on this trip, so now it's my turn. I love reading days. :) Only 3 more full days till we come home. We can't believe it.

The Hague: Day 1

This is the last post of the day, I promise! The internet in our last few hotels has been really slow, so I've been procrastinating updating the blog. But from here on out, hopefully I'll be better.

Day 1: 

So, our original reason for going to The Hague was to go to the temple. Unfortunately, when we called the temple to make sure that there was a time we could come, they told us that they are only open Thursdays through Saturdays, even though on the website they said they do things on Tuesdays and Wednesdays too. I guess it’s a really small temple, so they aren’t open half as much. We were pretty disappointed though.

Even so, The Hague is a really cute area. We walked through a lot of the city today and saw the Palace:

And the Parliament building:

We also randomly found a really cool flea market that we walked through. They had a lot of cool jewelry and other antique trinkets:

Then, we walked through the big shopping area:

After that, we decided that we wanted to see a movie. Everyone has been talking about how amazing Inception is, and we found a movie theater close by, so we went to see it. And it was amazing. And the Dutch subtitles didn’t bother me like I thought they would. It was another good day. Only 5 days left till we come back to the states!