I am sleepy. I went out for breakfast with Paul and stupidly ordered potato pancakes at IHOP. I was thinking about the potato pancakes we used to make out of left over mashed potatoes, these were like McDonalds potato thingies with onion and some herbs in it. Yuck.
Then I went to the Orange City Tulip Festival. The tulips have pretty much all died already. Between the very hot weather and a couple nights of below freezing weather right at the wrong time for tulips, it was a wash out on flowers, but it is a fun Dutch festival and since I'm at least 1/2 Dutch, I enjoy seeing the costumes.
It's also fun to hear people sing and speak in Dutch. My grandfather used to sing to me and tell me funny Dutch sayings. Luckily, when I was a kid I got him to say them into my new cassette recorder, so I still have them.
I ate a bratwurst and a "Dutch Fudge Puppy" Lol....it's a strip of waffle on a stick dipped in fudge and then topped with whip cream. It sounded better than it tasted.
I did make it to the butcher shop and picked up some of their wonderful dried beef and home made ring bologna.