On Tuesday morning, Paul flew out of Amsterdam for a work trip back to the States for 2 weeks. Dan was so kind to take him to the airport so I could finish tidying up our AirBnB apartment and finish packing while watching Charlotte. We headed out of Noordwijk mid-morning, and stopped at a UNESCO World Heritage site near Rotterdam (also in the Netherlands) to see some amazing and very Dutch windmills at Kinderdijk.
The windmills are all privately owned (and some appear to be residences), but it is free to walk around the site after paying for parking. There are 19 authentic windmills in a relatively small area that work to keep the water pumped out of the area. Most of the Netherlands is well below sea-level, and windmills have historically been the force used to keep the land from becoming sea.
After walking around for about an hour or so, we headed back to a nearby town to have lunch, then hit the road back to France. We arrived at the terminal with plenty of time to make our planned train, but the passport control was incredibly backed up (only 4 of 8 stations were open) and we ended up having to get on a train a full hour after we had hoped to be on our way. That was a little frustrating, but luckily Charlotte wasn't upset to be sitting in the car. Once we were through the tunnel, we had about a 2 hour drive back to our house. Charlotte finally fell asleep on the drive around London, but kept making me nervous as she seemed uncomfortable and I was nervous she was going to throw up again. It was great to make it home safely without any incident!
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