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Speelklok Museum- Utrecht, Netherlands

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The acrobat I had my first tosti at the cafe in the Speelklok museum. It is basically a grilled cheese sandwich with ham made on a panini grill, but man, it was amazing! Perhaps that was because I ate it in peace with Landon sleeping in the stroller. I wanted to go to the Speelklok museum to see a wide variety of automatic musical instruments. I enjoy anything musical, so I knew I would love it. I was not disappointed. When I arrived, a tour had just started and so I jumped right in. Luckily for me, the tour guide went seamlessly back and forth between English and Dutch. Taking a tour is the only way to hear some of the more rare instruments play, because they do not want people touching them/breaking them. We saw many small music boxes, and then went to the "toy" section. This acrobat music box did lots of tricks, and played music. Wealthy people would buy these to put out on the table after dinner, and before dessert to entertain and impress dinner guests. Above ...