My Family is Here!!! Part 3: North Sea

My Mom already has a post about the amusing towns and villages we passed through and the river called "Worry" that we drove over...silly Fresians! So feel free to head over to her blog and read all about them! :)

I'll just provide pictures of what we saw when we got there. (Although she has a post about that too..but we only used one of the same pictures--all the rest are unique :) )

We aimed for the North Sea--and we made it (You can tell by the wind)! (and we purposely tried to avoid big cities (erm..bigger towns) and crowded shores..we prefer unfettered exploration :) )

One of the cool things about this stretch of North Sea is the Wattenmeer--it's a stretch of coast where the tides are extreme.

The water recedes kilometers during low tide (thus allowing us to tromp around in LOTS of mud :)

---which we did "with abandon" :)

And now....a *MAGIC TRICK!*

Ta-da! Three people then FOUR people (these photos were taken seconds apart :) )

And now us :)

And of course, obligatory yoga! (with some runway prancing first ;) :) )

And just in case you'd forgotten what it was like to be nine.. :D (i.e. you can and must run everywhere!)

But enough of us 'fer-uh-ners' (foreigners), here are some of the locals (well, except my Dad :) ):

"And now ducks" (to quote one of F's recent favorite phrases)