Revisiting the Past.

As we travel to the different wards Henk recalls
seeing many of the places we are passing when
he was growing up here.

 This past Sunday we went to Church in Utrecht where Henk served as a building missionary and helped build that particular church building just four and a half months before his mission so he would have been 18 years old. We have a picture of
him working here in our stack of pictures at home.  It would be fun to compare them now.





On our way home from this meeting we stopped in Gouda, the city that the famous cheese is named after.  It was raining but we did get a few pictures.

 Notice how close to the canal the cars are parked and there is a skinny street between
them and the buildings on either side of the canal. Yes, the driver sits on the side of the
car that is next to the canal too. How do they
get out of the car?

This car is heading down one of the many little two way streets that are lined with houses or apartments.  These buildings are built right against their neighbor's house. The size of the street explains why we don't see many big cars around here although every once in a while we see a regular sized bus squeeze by.

We were told that we need to see this beautiful old church at night  because it is beautifully lighted up during this Christmas season.  We will be back!

This is a typical Lock which makes it possible to move a boat from a lower area to a higher area as they close up the Lock and let the water level get higher.  That then lifts the boat up and puts it up where it needs to be so it can continue.
 (and visa-versa)   I hope to see how that works while we are here.