Tuesday Nov 26, 2019 - Den Haag

A one hour train ride to Den Haag to visit two museums we been to before, and we were planning to go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. 

A quick note on the photo of Sue with the Astronaut.  We were walking to the Mauristhuis when we saw a guy in the astronaut suit and two young ladies walking toward us.  I of course started taking photos.  Sue then asked these people who couldn’t have been 25 where was the ‘Tang.’ They all responded in perfect English, what? So Sue is trying to explain to them what Tang was. My almost 50 year old kids probably don’t know what Tang was. In case you don’t know it was a powdered Orange fruit flavored drink mix. It was pretty bad as I remember. The company got a contract with NASA to include Tang with the astronauts’ supplies for the moon missions. I think it was probably Johnny Carson who made the joke that astronomers had identified an Orange spot on the moon, where the astronauts were dumping the Tang.

The weather turned nasty after the museum visits, so we didn’t make the trip to the International Court of Justice. We of course have been there before to take photos. I don’t know if you can actually visit the court, I doubt it, just take photos from the outside. We took the next train back to Amsterdam, there is one at least every half hour. Went to Orloff’s a local bar for a few beers and a Lebanese pizza with Tuna and Capers.  Sue loved it, for me it was just okay. The place became packed after a work group from Oracle showed up. It was a pretty good way to end a full day. Warning:  I topped the number of photos in an album: 322. 

Tuesday Nov 26 2019 - Den Haag