Queensday 2010

It's April 30th, the yearly date to celebrate Queensday in the Netherlands. On Queensday we celebrate the birthday of our Queen Beatrix. She's the Queen of the Netherlands since 1980, so this year is her 30th anniversary.

Queen Beatrix her oldest son Willem-Alexander is the Crown Prince of the Netherlands. Willem Alexander and his wife Maxima have three daughters, Queen Beatrix is their 'oma'.
The family name of the royal family is Orange, so this is the 'Royal Family of Orange'.
That is why Orange is our national colour, the Dutch soccer team or participants of the Olympic games are always dressed in Orange.

The Queen has a golden carriage that she uses for her yearly speech for the Dutch government.

She does not use it at Queensday, she visits two towns in Holland while they celebrate Queensday. On Queensday everybody in the Netherlands dresses in orange. We eat orange snacks and sweets and every town organizes games for the children.






On Saturday, like last year, we organized our Queensday in London! Koninginnedag is fun!

Easter fun

We are ready for the egg hunt!

And after our Easter breakfast we went out for the last Maple Syrup brunch of the year.

On the wagon to the sugar bush.

Our little helper:)

And the real Easter bunnies!

More signs of spring on the farm...

Point Pelee National Park

The Easter weekend couldn't start better with heat breaking records of 25C! We went to the most southern point of the mainland of Canada, Point Pelee National Park at Lake Erie.
Kathelijne prepared herself with her bag that hold her bathing suit.

In the shuttle to the tip of Canada.

The tip of Canada is just a little south of the 42nd parallel.
And here we are, the tip of Canada's mainland!

Our explorers had a great time at the shore of Lake Erie.

After a lot of fun it was time for our ornithologists to find some rare species!

We hiked the marsh board and saw a lot of birds!

The black bird was really nice to watch.



And climbing the trees is always lots of fun.

Or was it to stay away from the snake?

The beach girls had a great time

And our beach boy went for a big catch...

It was a great day at Lake Erie!