Another day in (very cold) paradise

Alright, everyone within the reading of my fingers, GET PLANE TICKETS, HOTEL RESERVATION AND A PASS FOR THE FLORIADE — you have until October, but you really, really need to come see this! Every day, we find something new that just blows us away — we are so astounded at the thought/design that went into this place! You need to come see it, you need to come support the kind of forward thinking that is involved in this! Today, we discovered the Flevoland (that’s the province that Almere is in) building, discussing their agriculture; apparently it is sort of the breadbasket of Netherlands. They had a virtual reality experience of being in a hot air balloon, flying over the province, showing off its special attributes, fishing, agriculture (like the World Potato Capital — who knew???), cities — it was AMAZING. Neither of us has had any experience with virtual reality and we were gobsmacked. We don’t play any VR games, so it was all new to us. I was surprised at the number of wind machines, not just in the sea, but on land as well. We were so enchanted, before we left, we went back for another go at it.

The whole place was pretty empty of people — don’t know whether it was because it was Sunday, the last day of the holiday or because it was dark skies and very windy and cold, but I felt so bad that there were so few people — you all need to come! We came to have another go at the magnificent meal at The Dutch! — it was just as perfectly fantastic as the other time and I had pretty much the same things as last time, except for the parsley ice cream; didn’t need more of that — definitely not as good as rye bread ice cream!

Well, we have made some progress in that we have gotten the pictures transferred from our phones to the computer. Now we just need to get them to here. But I had too many glasses of wine, so it might not be tonight. Maybe Laird — he’s the technology in this relationship. I’ve included three pics sort of at random. The first one is of the floating trees — planted in buoys salvaged from north sea service. I managed to put labels on the other two.