Rotterdam

We took Mommy to Rotterdam so she could see our favorite museum there: the Maritime Museum.  The best part of it is the rooftop port where kids can load cargo onto trucks and then take it through customs.   We like moving the containers with the cranes.  You can see lots of photos in the Rotterdam Gallery by clicking here.

The museum also has the Dutch Navy’s first “ironsides” steam ship, which you can tour and even practice shoveling coal into the furnaces.

Right next to that ship is the harbor museum of all sorts of little boats.  We went into a freight barge that used to take turf up and down the canals.  The family had a very tiny kitchen and living room/bedroom in the front of the hold.

Our plan had been to also go to a terrific playground that William went to with a class trip (Henry was sick), but it got too late in the day.  So we stopped off in Delft on the way home and went to the Army Museum there one last time.

We went back to Rotterdam to Playground Plaswijck the next day, but Mommy had the camera at the archives so we don’t have any photos.  We wish we could show you where the lemurs got to watch children running around on ropes.