Thursday evening we went on a quite an epic adventure. A 3 hour kayak tour of Utrecht by canal. It was quite a workout with some beautiful vistas. My pictures don't do it justice as I was afraid of getting my camera wet, but here are some pictures.
Now, a silly picture of all the girls right before the tour. It's around 7:30pm in this photo and still very light out. We still had no idea how far we were going through the canals.
Interesting fact of today, the Dutch named their days Moendag, Dinsdag, Woesndag, Donderdaag, Vridag, Zaturdag, Zundag after pagan gods. Donder is also known as Thor. There are both similarities and differences in the names of the days I suppose. I can tell you that Dutch is challenging to pronounce. W's are pronounced like V's. So, a contraversial name in Dutch Politics, Geert Wilders, is pronounced "Vile-ders" or something.
I am enjoying learning about the Language and Culture of Holland. Our lecture on Thursday was about Art History of the Netherlands. I like looking at Van Gough's (pronounced Van Hoe), Vermeer's and Rembrant's works in slides but I am more excited about visiting them in the museums.
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