Drew came down to the continent for Queen's Day. Always great to see a familiar face. For the uninitiated, Queen's Day (Koninginnedag in Dutch) is the birthday of the late Queen Juliana. It's basically an excuse for everyone to dress in obnoxious orange clothing and have gigantic dance parties in the streets fueled by copious amounts of beer (and cocaine, apparently?). Total. Freaking. Blast.
The best DJs--in my humble opinion--could be found at the Marie Heinekenplein in the afternoon, but we also managed to catch DJ Tiesto in the hideously crowded Museumplein later in the day:Total hooligan behavior.
On a different note: I'm sure you've seen on CNN or otherwise about the car crash that happened yesterday...to be honest, I really was pretty much oblivious to it until we saw the news online. The queen and the royal family were visiting the small city of Apeldoorn (about 30 miles from Nijmegen) when this guy crashed his car into the crowd and just narrowly missed the motorcade. He died this morning of brain injuries, but his final words were that the crash was an attack on the royal family. Four people are dead and I think the country's pretty shaken up.
It's very strange to experience a national tragedy as an expatriate. I'm not quite sure how to feel about it...I'm distanced from it simply by virtue of being an American abroad, but in some ways it hits much closer to home than simply finding it tragic because innocent people died.
More on Krakow soon. Pictures are up on Picasa (picasaweb.google.com/margaretaislinncarr) if you want to take a gander.
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