Day 3

Today it is a little rainy. I am useless with an umbrella. It keeps going inside out. Rebecca had to teach me how to use this umbrella---how pathetic. We walked to the grocery store to buy ingredients for dinner. After Rebecca put dinner in the slow cooker, we went off to the train and then the bus and went to the church office where Rebecca used to work. The public transport is great here. We can get very near any place we want to go by train or bus and they run quickly and often. After I met Rebecca's pastors we walked through the "Haagse Bos" (the Hague woods) to the Queen's palace. She was at home because her flag was flying. We took pictures of her palace and her palace quards and then walked back around a big pond in the woods. We sat for a while at the side of the pond and a whole bunch of pigeons came and landed at our feet. We had nothing to feed them but they kept coming back. A Grandma and her grandkids came with bread and then the pigeons were joined by ducks and a haron to eat the kids treats. We walked back to the church office as Rebecca's pastor Marilyn offered to drive us home. Turned out we had a great chat and prayed together before Marilyn drove us home. It is obvious her pastors love Rebecca dearly. We are home again now. We need Art here as we made a fire in the fireplace last night to warm up, and now Rebecca is almost out of fire wood.