Day 5

Emily - So, we slept in a little, then drove to Heerenveen and parked by Kasey's old apartment building. We walked through the Centrum and some shopping areas and finally rented some bikes around noon. Then we biked to a windmill in the middle of the city and then we rode to Joure.

  The entire day we broke out singing "The Best Two Years". Kasey told a lot of jokes that he heard on his mission and we just kind of enjoyed the scenery. The country side really is so beautiful. We couldn't quite capture it with the camera, but I really just fell in love all over again with Holland on this day. It was kind of a misty and warm day, and just beautiful.

Once we got to Joure we took a little break on a bench next to a ditch, ate some delicious chocolate (pretty much the entire box...) then biked to Herrenveen. We then biked around the south part of the city. Then we went to Oranjewoud, which was a forest area. It was beautiful!!!! (Yes, it really does deserve that many exclamation points.) Even the forest area looks manicured and majestic.

  We then took another break and Kasey read some histories of some of the cities while I read The Hiding Place. I was getting close to finishing it so that the next day when we'd visit the Corrie Ten Boom house, I would know the history behind the house. 

 
We then biked to the station, and then to visit Heltji and her beautiful kids. It was a very nice visit!

 Next was to Jan and Anje's house but they were not home so Kasey left a message for them. Finally, we took the bikes back to the shop. (We also took a picture at the exact place Kasey took his famous bike picture.)
 

 We met up with the missionaries as we were walking back to the car. Kasey was able to encourage them to visit some of the people there, which was really good. Then we drove back Burgum and talked a little bit with Ferrai and then relaxed and read. We finally called it a night around 11:30.

We laughed that this day we biked by the bridge next to Kasey's old apartment 4 times and drove by 4 times. We got to know the city really well. This probably was my very favorite day because we got to bike a TON, and since there are no hills in Holland, it made it very easy.