April 30 was Queen's Night/Day. It is the "queen's birthday" (actually her mom...her summer birthday has nicer weather.), but it is really just an excuse to wear orange and get plastered. Like most holidays.
This is the Queen.
This is Queen's Day (in Amsterdam).
Clearly, the two have very little in common.
Groningen was definitely the craziest I've EVER seen it that night. But it was a pretty good time, at least up until midnight. Then it started getting much too crazy and crowded on the Grote Markt...an excess of drunken middle-aged Dutchmen. Maybe too much jenever.
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| Barbecue at my student house before going out. My roommate is on the left with the sunglasses. :) |
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| City center all decked out. |
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| Good times. |
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| Getting way too crowded! |
Queen's Day!
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| Got stuck at a drawbridge... |
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| Martini Tower |
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| Still Orange. |
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| Some kinda orchestra concert on the Grote Markt. Bet half the crowd was too drunk to appreciate it. :) |
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| "Town Hall" |
Liberation Day, on May 5th, is the celebration/rememberance of the day the Netherlands was liberated at the end of WWII. There was a big free concert in the Stadspark. It was pretty fun, but also reminded me of why I never go to festival concerts (dusty, sweaty, dirty...).
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| Danielle, Chantal, and this random guy. |
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| Kate Nash on stage. |
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