122 Days in Europe: Happy Queen's Day!

Day 108: Blah Finals Ruin All the Fun!

Well today is Queen's Day and I have to wear orange. I don't particularly like to wear orange as I feel like a pumpkin in it and like I should be going door to door asking for candy, but I will wear it as it is a part of the Dutch culture. Today is the Queen's "Birthday", not really, it is her mom's but they celebrate it this day anyway, and everyone goes crazy! Not just like a little crazy, but I mean full out crazy. You spend all day completely decked out in orange attire including, but not limited to, tiaras, fake orange hair, body paint, etc. I only wore an orange tank top necklace and headband, but it is ok because all I did was attend the city wide garage sale. Oh I didn't explain that. In the morning before the really heavy drinking and partying starts (3 pm) there is a city wide garage sale in which people take all the stuff they don't need and sell it by the canals. Little kids sell lemonade and dance, sing, and play their instruments for money. It was quite interesting to watch. But we ended up just walking around and observing people until about 2 and then we got Turkish food, or course! We got back and I found out that I had gotten sunburnt! What I know! The weather was beautiful! We ended up coming back and studying in the afternoon because we have a final tomorrow evening and all want to do well on it. We studied outside though so it made it bearable.