Holland Part 3

The next few days of our trip were mostly traveling on the canals with a few stops here and there.

Here is a great picture of life on the canal and one of our boats. That is my brother you see on the boat :-)


The houses along the canal were some of the most beautiful i have seen. Many of them were so nice and all of them had the most beautiful gardens and yards.


One night we missed a bridge, so we had to pull over on the side of the canal and dock for the night right outside of Utrecht. We went out for a walk and found the most fun playground for the kids. The next day, we got on our way and we rode through Utrecht and the its covered bridges. Here is what Utrecht looks like from the front of our boat.


Obviously, we had to go through these bridges too. It isn't a great pictures, but it shows just how small the bridges were and how we had to maneuver through them. We had moments were we weren't sure we could make it or we had to duck and hit the decks!


This is the infamous bridge of our trip. No one manned the bridge and we couldn't read Dutch so we didn't know how we were going to get through. We spent 1 1/2 hours sitting waiting for this bridge to find out by the locals in this very small town that it opened automatically at 6:00 pm. Needless to say, this is the bridge that we joke about quite a bit and will always remember as it set us back quite a bit on our trip that day.