Today, we made it to Keukenhof Gardens, the highlight of this week’s vacation. The weather wasn’t the best today, predicting rain all day but we managed to get to Keukenhof early and able to walk around for a couple of hours before it started to rain. So it worked out well! Keukenhof is the biggest Garden in the world with absolutely beautiful gardens of flowers. It is only open for 8 weeks every spring and completely closed down the rest of the year. They completely dig up the entire gardens, treat all the bulbs and then get the gardens ready again for the following year. It was beautiful as you will see from the pictures I post below.
So our week’s vacation has now come to an end. As I write, Brian is packing his bags itching to get home to see our grandchildren and of course Timmie! We have come to realize that shorter vacations are more our style. It’s nice to get a way for a few days but it still is nice to get home.
This has been our second trip with Scenic Riverboat Cruises, and we were definitely not as impressed with this one as we were the first one we took from Budapest to Amsterdam in 2012. Although they have improved some things on the ship itself, like retractable windows on the balcony and no charge for alcoholic beverages; we didn’t find the food was as good. We also did not have a very good cruise director and it makes all the difference when you have an enthusiastic director like we did on the other Scenic Cruise. Some of the crew were very attentive to people but there were others that didn’t give you the time of day. We also had a couple of tour guides that were not the best and at some points, we walked away from them and did our own thing. We did meet some very nice people though on this trip, especially Jane and Doug, whom we have been sharing our experiences with and dining together at lunch and dinner.
Our plane takes off early Monday morning and we will be home on Monday around noon. It has been good to get away and we did enjoy ourselves!
Here are some of the beautiful pictures we took at Keukenhof Gardens today:
This is not as clear as I would have liked but this was taken through the bus window as we on our way to the the gardens.
Brian always finds the ladies to take a picture with!
We stopped for a “Koffee” and apple pie!
Will see everyone soon as we now head home!
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