Time for the BEACH

Today after breakfast Joann's cousin and her husband came to pick us up and brought us to their place in Ijmuiden.  We sat out on the back patio and Anniek found a paint brush in the shed and got a bucket of water outside and decided to play with it until lunch cleaning things.  Anniek really warmed up to the husband.
After lunch we went to the beach on the North Sea by their place.  At the enterance to the beach there was an area where  an area of sand was dug out and 10 trampolines were placed in it and they rented out each trampoline for 2.50$ Euro for 10 minutes.  Anniek wanted to do it so she was given the money to do it.

We then talked to the water because the tide was out we had to walk a bit.  There were a bunch of jelly fish all over the sand, I am assuming they were dead.  There were also lots of shells on the beach.  The water was too cold for swimming but we went in up to our knees.

We walked along the beach to a cafe on the beach with a large patio that looked out to the ocean and we stopped there for ice cream and something to drink.  Dogs were allowed on the patio and inside and they did not even have to be on a leash!!!
We sat down to enjoy our ice cream.  Anniek wanted to sit on the bench with the pillows so we let her while we were at a table.  Soon Anniek saw a lady with a little Chihuahua dog and asked to pet it.  The lady had Anniek sit next to her and put the dog on Anniek's lap, Anniek loved that. 

After a while Anniek came up to me and asked if she can have another ice cream, turns out the lady with the dog asked her if she wanted done, so Anniek got another ice cream and ate it with the lady and was sharing it with the dog.  When Anniek was done the ice cream we thanked the lady and headed back to the car.  Anniek was lucky and got carried most of the time we were walking on the sand.  We walked back to the car on a path along a canal behind the beach.

We then drove around and we got shown the old bunkers from WWII.  Back then they decided to just cover them with sand and forget about them, now they are in the process of uncovering them and going through them.
We then went back to the house where we met some more of the family and we had a huge wonderful dinner that was wonderful.  Then we got ready to head vack to Amsterdam and the hotel and pack for the train and go to bed.