A day which started out as a happy and fun day turned into a drama.

Warning: This blog contains pictures of people who are badly injured if that's not your thing then please look away!!!

This Queensday started out like any other Queensday I can remember. I celebrated it with my parents with going into the town looking at some booths, listening to some live music and going to the fair. It was just another fun Queensday, until one of my aunts called my father to let him know that something at happened in Apeldoorn. Every Queensday the Queen and the rest of the royal family visit a town, play some fun old Dutch games ect. This year thattown was Apeldoorn. We rush toward my aunt's home (because she lives close by where we were) to see what had really happened. Then we see on TV that a man in his black car drove through the cordoning off operation and crashes into a monument, just a few feet away from the bus where the royal family was in.

In order to do that however he had to drive though the crowd of people that where there to see the royal family. You could just see the people flying though the air. There were 17 injured, from witch four have already died and five more are badly injured. The driver himself is still alive, though he is badly injured, and in police custody. The Queen herself has expressed her regret for what happened and to tell that she feels for the victims and their loved ones!

Shocked faces from the Royal family who saw it all happen.

There was the big question for awhile whether this was an accident or an attack on the royal family. But no we are sure enough to say that the latter was true. What everyone here in the Netherlands now wants to know is the reason why he did, but sadly there is nothing known about that yet.

Everyone is very shocked, myself included because you just don't expect anything like this at all! And since nothing like this has happened before, you don't even consider it.

All the celebrations in Apeldoorn were cancelled, and a few other places followed this. Other places decide to continue to celebrate, like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is pretty much the place to be on Queensday and a lot of people go there to celebrate it, because there is a free concert there were a lot of famous singers perform. They did have their reason for continuing and they were silent for a minute to think about the victims and their loved ones. And trust me it's quite an impressive site to see about 200 thousand people completely silent.

Anyway everyone is still pretty much in shock, and hopefully they will find out why that men did it soon.

I think that it's safe to say that Queensday is never going to be the same again!

As I am typing this; I just heard that there are now 5 people dead. We don't know yet wetter it's the driver ( who is in critical condition) or someone else.

My heart goes out to all the victims and their loved ones!

Here's a link with more pictures, and some 'live' footage from this terrible attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD0syfdj1e0

Edit: The offender died last night in the hospital which means that there are now 6 dead by this terrible attack. Now we may never know for sure why he did it, but since he just recently lost his job, the greatest guess is that he was angry about the economic crisis.

There are now seven dead and eight still injured, from witch one of them is in critical condition.

Huge Hugs!

Hey everyone

I finally have vacation, yeah That's because this Thursday it's Queensday ( Koninginnedag as we call it) On Queensday we celebrate our Queens' b-day. Only it's not really her b-day, it's her mothers b-day ( who was Queen before her). Our Queen: Beatrix' b-day is January 31, but because it's too cold to celebrate it then we continue to celebrate it on 30 April. See that's not complicated at all And we also have a fair now, so that's always a lot of fun


A pic of Queen Beatrix.

On Queensday we hang out our countries flag and almost everyone wears orange ( yes Ivy you heard it right; Orange ).

Yup fun day And it means vacation, I really love this Holiday!

Now on to something completely different: let's see ho dumb I really am with a quiz I stole from the one and only Ivy

Tally the results up, and the total at the end will tell you what percent of an idiot you are

1. [ ] Forgot to put the lid on the blender, turned it on, and had everything fly out
2. [ ] Gotten your head stuck between the stair rails
3. [ ] Broken a chair by leaning back in it
4. [X] Had gum fall out of your mouth while you were talking
5. [X] Choked on your own spit while you were talking
6. [X] Had people tell you that you are blonde when you're not, or had people tell you that your blonde highlights are going to your head
7. [ ] Been caught staring at your crush by your crush
8. [X] Have looked for something for at least 5 min then realized it was in your hand
9. [X] Tried to push open a door that said pull
10.[X] Tried to pull open a door that said push

Running total:6

11. [ ] Have actually believed someone when they said that they knew how to make a love-potion
12. [X] Have hit yourself in the process of trying to hit something else
13. [X] Have tripped and fallen UP the stairs
14. [ ] Have actually exploded marshmallows in the microwave
15. [X] Have gotten gum stuck in your hair
16. [X] Had gum fall out of your mouth while trying to blow a bubble
17. [ ] Have had the juice from a mini tomato squirt out and hit somebody else when you bit into it
18. [ ] Have had your drink come out your nose because you were laughing so hard
19. [X] Have called one of your good friends by the wrong name
20. [ ] Have skinned your toe because you were playing soccer or kickball with flip flops on or you were barefoot

Running total: 11

21. [ ] Have put a sticker on your forehead, forgot it was there, and went out in public with it on
22. [ ] Have fallen out of a moving vehicle
23. [X] Have ran into a closed door
24. [ ] Searched for your cell phone while you were talking on it
25. [ ] It has taken you longer than 5 min to get a joke
26. [X] Have gotten your hair stuck in a blow dryer
27. [ ] Have gotten your hair stuck in a fan
28. [X] Tripped on a crack in the sidewalk
29. [ ] Said o'clock after saying how many min after the hour, example: 5:30 o'clock, or 6:15 o'clock

Running total:14

30. [ ] After someone told you that there was gum on the ground, you stepped in it
31. [ ] Put on a white shirt even though you already knew it was raining outside
32. [X] Have ever walked up to a stranger because you thought they were someone else
33. [ ] Ever been kicked out of a grocery store/off their property
34. [X] Touched the stove, the curling iron, a hot pan, etc when its on, even though you knew it was Hot
35. [X] Taken off your clothes to change into something else then accidentally put the old clothes back on
36. [ ] Wondered why something wasn't working then realized it wasn't plugged in
37. [ ] Put the cereal in the fridge, or put the milk in the cupboard
38. [X] Walked into a pole or a wall
39. [X] Wore two different earrings or shoes by accident/stolen someone's shoes by accident

Running total: 19

40. [X] Put your shirt on backwards/inside-out without realizing it then left your house
41. [X] Tried to take a picture of someone's eye with the flash on
42. [ ] Gotten a ring stuck on your finger because you put it on even though you knew it was too small
43. [ ] Walked out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe without realizing it
44. [X] Went to go do something/go get something, then when you got there, you forgot what it is was that you were going to do
45. [ ] Picked up someone else's drink and drank out of it by accident when your drink was right next to it
46. [X] Fallen out of your chair while trying to pick something up
47. [ ] Have poked yourself in the eye
48. [ ] Have gotten in the shower with your socks still on.
49. [ ] Melted your hairbrush while blow drying your hair

Running total: 23

50. [X] Have done enough stupid things to make a test
51. [X] Have accidentally stabbed yourself with a pencil
52. [X] Have sung the wrong verse to a song without realizing it
53. [ ] Have given an odd answer to a question because you didn't hear the question in the first place and didn't feel like asking what it was.
54. [X] Told someone you were the wrong age because you seriously forgot how old you were
55. [ ] Looked into an overhead purposefully while it was on
56. [X] Got up early and got ready for school/work, then realized that you didn't have school/work that day
57. [X] Forgot your own phone number
58. [x] Have tripped on a cord after someone told you to watch out for it
59. [X] Have ever laughed at a joke that no one else thought was funny

Running total: 31

60. [ ] Done the Macarena to the electric slide or vice versa
61. [ ] Said funner then had someone make fun of you for it
62. [ ] Have repeated yourself at least twice in the same sentence
63. [ ] Brought up an inside joke with the wrong person
64. [ ] Didn't do the backside of an assignment because you thought that there wasn't one because you had already looked and forgot that there was another side
65. [ ] Did more work than you had to on an assignment because you didn't read the directions
66. [ ] Corrected someone's grammar/pronunciation then figured out that you were the one that was wrong
67. [X] Put something in a special place so that you would remember where it was, then forgot where you put it
68. [ ] Put ice in your drink after the glass was full of liquid and had it splash out
69. [ ] Told a lie then forgot what it was that you had said and got caught

Running total: 32

70. [ ] When wearing goggles, you pulled them away from your face and let go so that they would come back and snap you in the face
71. [X] Forgot to make sure that the lamp was off before you replaced the light bulb
72. [X] Ran into a door jam
73. [ ] Told someone that you hardly ever do stupid things, then immediately did/said something stupid
74. [ ] Told someone to watch out for something, then you were the one that ran into it
75. [ ] Have purposely licked playground sand
76. [X] Have purposely and repeatedly flicked yourself with a rubber band
77. [ ] Gotten so hyper that someone actually thought you were drunk when you weren't
78. [ ] Have been so hyper you actually scared people
79. [ ] Put duct tape on your body then pulled it off to see if it would hurt

Running total: 35

80. [ ] Put duct tape on your hair/someone else's hair then pulled it off
81. [X] Put a clothes pin/hair clip on your lip, figured out that it hurt, then did it again
82. [ ] Sat and wondered why men's dress shirts have a loop on the back.
83. [X] Made up a code name for someone so that you could talk about them to someone else and no one else would know who you were talking about
84. [ ] Have gotten a hairbrush stuck in your hair.
85. [ ] Used the straw to blow the straw wrapper at someone .
86. [ ] Shaved your tongue because you thought your taste buds looked funny
87. [ ] When at a restaurant, you used your spoon to fling stuff at people
88. [ ] Have flung forks at people in a restaurant
89. [ ] Tripped and made the waiter drop the food.

Running total: 37

90. [X] As you are writing, you move your head back and forth with your pen/pencil
91. [X] Have drawn finger puppets on your fingers then named them
92. [ ] Have wrapped someone in a roll of toilet paper
93. [X] Have used somebody else's toothbrush without even realizing it wasn't yours
94. [X] Have started telling a story and forget what you were talking about or what happened in the story
95. [X] Read a page in a book but during that you weren't even paying attention and had to start over
96. [ ] You have spelled your own first name wrong before
97. [ ] You have spelled your own last name wrong before
98. [ ] When lying in bed you look for pictures in the texture of the ceiling
99. [X] Have used your calculator as a form of communication in a ****br>100.[ ] Have popped a balloon in your mouth

Running Total: 43%

Hmm, only 43%, I expected a lot more...

That's all for now!

Huge Hugs!