Wandering Browns

Mom and Landon out front Family temple pic! On a rainy, blustery day, Austin and I took turns attending The Hague LDS temple. There we learn more about our purpose here on earth, as well as about our Savior, Jesus Christ. It was great to be reminded of the important things in life and feel of the peace that prevails in the temple. Before going in, we took some pictures out in front. This temple was only one story and in the middle of a residential area in a suburb of the Hague. The parking lot was shared with visitors to the suburb's city center, and I think most patrons and workers parked in an underground parking lot. We had to ring a doorbell to get inside since we parked in the community lot!  Close-up family pic I love walking around the temple grounds with Landon. He notices the little things like flowers, bugs and rocks, but also loves to point out Angel Moroni blowing his trumpet. He loves the temple and even got to go inside (to go potty) and was thrilled! ...

If traveling with kids in the Netherlands, this is a must-see attraction. Madurodam is a mini-Holland, and has miniature models of all major buildings built on a 1:20 scale. This made it much smaller than I was expecting, and much smaller than Taman Mini, the mini Indonesia that we visited. However, it was much better than Taman Mini because it had lots of fun interactive games and exhibits, and tons of transportation, which if you study the grin on that little boy's face below, makes a huge difference in his happiness level!  Landon and the trains Madurodam is located in The Hague, and was a five minute tram ride from The Hague central station. I had checked the weather and noted that it was supposed to rain in the afternoon, so we left in the morning hoping to skip the rain. The rain came early. Then I checked the weather again and it said the rain would be done by 12:00. So I took my time at the train station and tried to spend as much time as possible inside. As soon...

Maurithuis, after Landon woke up at the end of our time there After the multiple public meltdowns at Madurodam, Landon finally went down for a nap and I went to see my first art museum in the Netherlands. While I'm not an art critic or art history major, I do enjoy good works of art and still remember some key names from general ed university classes. I apologize ahead of time for not cropping my photos of paintings- I am at least a week behind on blogging and trying desperately to catch up before I forget everything. Also, I took pictures of these paintings with my flash off to preserve the beautiful art. Here we go! This museum featured art from the Dutch masters and a very handy app that could be downloaded quickly on their fast, free wifi. It made the museum experience so much better to be able to look up information in English on paintings I was studying. I highly recommend it. The building itself is a piece of history- it was built in the mid 1600's by John Mauri...