Summer Changes and Governmental Tangles
I'm emptying out my cupboards of school supplies, craft boxes, puzzles, science kits-- and there is now a huge mess on our table, and multiple piles of donation/trash items by our door. It's summer, time for a fresh start. I want to be out having fun and not shoving miniature dinosaurs and ripped papers in the cupboard to deal with later. I'm looking forward to bike rides in the sunshine. Getting piles of books from the library and reading them at the playground. Picking strawberries from our garden. We're getting the Museum Card this year, and train passes for July. I'm beyond excited at the upcoming adventures. More time out learning and exploring, less time dealing with vacation boredom. The kids are older and have longer attention spans, and loved Leiden's Boerhaave museum and the Prinsenhof in Delft. I'm hoping to revisit those, plus add in famous new places like Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum, Leiden's Museum of Antiquities, Rot...