Queensday in Holland. Just to say Happy Birthday Your Majesty !!

It's the 30th of April again so Holland turns itself in Orange and acts weird

WHY ??

Our Queen celebrates her birthday today!
Okay for those of you who will do a search for her on the net. It's not her actual birthday. That's on January 31. Her mother Juliana's birthday though was today and when Beatrix became Queen in 1980 she just kept that date to honor her mother. The weatherchances are better too. Besides one of the familymembers, Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven, is having his birthday today so... who cares he doesn't, he just joins the fun.

To give you an impression of what the country looks like just take a look

The little ones pimp their bikes aswell, the best pimped bike will win a price.

Koninginnedag Brouwersgracht

Trafficjams in the canals of Amsterdam. Just make sure that you're seen at the scene !

As you can see we're acting weird. But don't worry it's just one day a year and we have lots of fun.

Even the Royal Family had fun today while visiting Franeker and Makkum.
Both those places showed themselfs to the 'world' live on tv all morning.

Makkum, 30 april 2008: De Koningin, Prinses Margriet, Pieter van Vollenhoven, Prinses Máxima, de Prins van Oranje, Prins Constantijn en Prinses Laurentien ontmoeten Neptunus © ANP Photo; foto: Robin Utrecht

imageAnd to finish the day in perfect order you could always
get yourself one of these.

On every other day their color will be pink.

But just for today it's orange.

You still don't understand why Holland loves orange so much?

Let me explain:
Our Royal Family's name is Of Orange-Nassau.
Named after two small counties that used to be owned by the family.