Oma and Opa were very generous today and volunteered to take R for the morning so we could go on a tour.\u00c2\u00a0 We left in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was an island tour.\u00c2\u00a0 Our driver was very knowledgeable about the island and we learned a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 The tiny island is really two distinct countries on one island.\u00c2\u00a0 Unbelievable, different laws, different school systems, 2 airports, 2 water treatment plants, 2 electrical plants.. wow.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyways we had a nice drive with some stops for the magnificent views.\u00c2\u00a0 We stopped in the French capital,\u00c2\u00a0 Marrigot, and it was pretty darn French, with rude sales people just like in France!<\/font><\/p>\n We also toured the Dutch capital of Phillipsburg.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a lovely little town, with lots and lots of jewelry shops, just like on many of the other islands.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was pretty much hard work to find shops that were not selling jewelry.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We did manage to find some nice dolls with darker skins for R.\u00c2\u00a0 She is thrilled with the new dolls.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n This afternoon was quite low key, we all had a good nap, then we played a bit before dinner.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner was lovely, the Beef tenderloin was absolutely delish.\u00c2\u00a0 And the dessert, wow.\u00c2\u00a0 They had made a white chocolate chef\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hat, signed it with the chef\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name, filled it with chocolate mousse, and drizzled berry stuff on it, and served it with a bit of whipped cream and blueberries.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Later tonight is the Dutch Chocolate Extravaganza.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They say it takes 60 hours to prepare!\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see if I can stay up until 10 to see it.<\/p>\n We are now catching a bit of Rattatouie.\u00c2\u00a0 (the movie).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is quite funny.<\/p>\n **\u00c2\u00a0 I managed to stay up to see this Dutch Chocolate Extravaganza.\u00c2\u00a0 wow.\u00c2\u00a0 They had built a replica of the Eiffel tower out of white chocolate, a few dozen different types of chocoate desserts, several dark and light chocolate fountains, a huge fortress made out of chocolate, and more.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 Jo-anna, that would have been your definition of heaven.\u00c2\u00a0 Mom and I ended up only having fruit skewers dipped in white chocolate, but that was enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oma and Opa were very generous today and volunteered to take R for the morning so we could go on a tour.\u00c2\u00a0 We left in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was an island tour.\u00c2\u00a0 Our driver was very knowledgeable about the island and we learned a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 The tiny island is really two distinct countries on one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}