Kroller - Muller Museum 01-10-10

Today, we had our excursion to Otterlo. A train and two buses allowed us to arrive at the museum, two hours away from amsterdam. When we arrived, it was snowing mildly but allowed for a beautiful garden and countryside. (Our first windmill was seen in this beautiful white country.) The museum not only had paintings but several sculptures, many of which were outside and covered in snow. There are also several beautiful, native birds playing in the snow, all of which Lauren was extremely fascinated with.
The culture is also a little different than we had expected. The sexual freedom and publicity is strong and is prided by all that live here. We also learned that the word blonde or blondie is the same in dutch as in english seeing that we hear it every 10 minutes. (Lauren finds little humor in this seeing that they notice her slipping on the frozen snow covered brick road instead of me!) All the locals are more than willing to help out and the plans and transits are going smoothly, as we hope they will continue tomorrow. Our question for tomorrow is why they are obsessed with monkeys? (They have stuffed animals and several posters and signs in all the local places.)