Unexpected Vistitors

Yesterday morning. while getting ready to go out and around town, Bre yells, "Miranda, come look at the ducks!! Come look!" I walked to the door and find a bunch of ducks standing outside our door looking at us. So of course I fed them some crackers. Well, now they love me. I hope they come back.


















It was a very rainy day here is Delft, it even rained when the sun was shining! However, the weather forecast said that was the last day of rain and the rest of the week would get warmer and warmer. We are very excited for that! We are done with the rain! Despite the weather, Bre and I managed to ride our bikes that Kendra and Dave got for us and rode them to the square. They had a pottery festival and after touring that we toured the churches, New and Old. The New church was fairly dark inside and hard to photograph. I had left my camera home to charge it and Bre's camera litteraly died while I was taking a picture. So, I'll show you what I got. The door to the church was very gothic and Mideaval that I had to photograph it. Also, the
chandeleirs were gorgeous and I tried to take a great picture of it.






Everything in the new church was entirely built by hand, even by today's standards, that's still an amazing feet. Every brick, bucket of cement, and anything else used had to be taken up by hand or by pulley. The church was built in the 1500's and later suffered from a strike of lighting, later a fire, and then in 1654 an explosion in Delft's gunpoweder factory blew out the original stained glass windows of the church. However, it was fixed three centuries later.

The Old Church is just a few blocks away and was much brighter than the New Church. This church dates back to as early as 1200. The stained glass windows were very high up it was impossible to take a good picture.

This church is also the final resting place for Vermeer. On the left is his memorial, he was a first buried here, and then moved to another area in the church which is the picture below it.

These churches were so beautiful and amazing that we had to sit in the pews to take it all in. I can honestly say that I have never been so moved while sitting in a church. I felt so close to God here, I can't explain it. You just have to visit these churches. These churches are still used today and Bre and I plan to attend a service. It was all be in Dutch so it will be quite an experience!

Later on we went grocery shopping and went home. After dinner we walked to the lake and walked along the countryside. I didn't bring my camera so I didn't get to photograph anything but I wish I did. There were three Blue herons along a stream drinking water and relaxing. Duck and Geese were off in the distance. The sky was the best part though. It was very blue, the clouds were brighter than I have ever seen them, and because the sun was setting there was a tint of orange swirled in the clouds. Bre and I didn't think it was real. It was so beautiful, as if the sky opened up and we could see the Heavens.