Shrimping on a Boat!

Day 39: I Have Got Some Crazy Mind Powers! 

            We got to kind of sleep in today! Our day started at 9:00 am with a breakfast of bread. No surprise there because that is all the Dutch eat, bread, bread, and more bread! After that we threw on clothes really fast to bike across the island to make it to our first stop by ten. We first went to the Maritime Museum, which was really cool. I ended up taking a million and one pictures so I will upload the ones that I liked the best. There we saw old boats, salvage WWII bomber engines, and a replica-fishing village.  On the way to the museum we stopped by two historical places of interest one being the Georgian memorial from WWII the other the well that made Texel a place of importance. After that we went on the shrimping boat. I was sad that we didn’t see any seals or whales, but we got to eat a ton of shrimp. I felt really bad shelling the little guys, but they tasted so good. We also learned about the other fish that we caught all of them were really ugly and had to be thrown back out to sea. At one point some of the girls were throwing fish in the air to the seagulls. Surprisingly we saw one catch a fish in midair. There we also a couple that got into fights over them.  After we got back from our shrimping adventure we ended up with six bags of shrimp or in other words a fortune. After shrimping we had to bike back across the island through a bitterly cold wind to do some shopping. Once there we met Steef’s wife who is a really cool lady. Then we came back to Elba and made Dutch pancakes and a shrimp bisque, worth ten euro in a restaurant, for dinner. The shrimp bisque was ok, but I would much rather eat the little shrimps, but the pancake was really good. Brittany and I also got a summer sausage at the grocery store and noomed on that all night long. After dinner I took a shower and prepared for a game of Farkle. Jaz won the first game, and I barely won the second game. This is where the mind powers comes into play. Whenever I play I usually roll off of the person before me, even if it is one die left. This time I ended up getting 5,900 points off of one roll and left three die which I told Freddy he was going to Farkle and he did. This led to an evening of finger waving and guessing the outcome of the game, which was right.  Summer could have beat me, but she ended up Farkling. That game lasted forever and we finally went to bed at midnight.

This is the WWII museum for the Georgians that were lost. This is the north of the Netherlands which was liberated last. The Georgians fought and lost a lot of men in the last efforts to reach liberation. 

Sheep Sheep and more sheep! There were sheep everywhere we went. 

A boat at the Maritime Museum. 

My new favorite underexposed picture. 

A brush on a work bench. 

The view from the shrimp boat. 

Our catch. Yum! 

The seagulls waiting in anticipation of the fish being thrown back in. 

Cooked Shrimps! Yum! 

Our Shrimping boat.  

I love this picture. 

Each province has its own type of bread. I couldn’t but help to think about hunger games. 

A picture of a chandelier in a store we went into. 

Shrimp bisque with butter in it to make it taste better. 

My Dutch Pancake. Bacon and Cheese.