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Friday, July 23, 2004 Land of "-je" Mom is here visiting, so it has been fun and hectic. Here are some pics from today at Madurodam, Holland's miniature city. It doesn't surprise me that Holland has a miniature city; this is really a place of diminuitives. I really noticed the difference in scale when we've been to Paris: Paris is filled with enormous monuments, while, in Holland, even the Palace Noordeinde here in the Hague is practically a rowhouse. When I first got here, I had walked past it before Kyle pointed out that, "Hey, that's the palace where Queen Beatrix works." Everything is small, and there is a language 'tic' in Dutch-- a lot of words end in "-je", which is the Dutch form of "little", kind of like the Spanish suffix "-ito". So a little beer is a biertje, a little sandwich is a broodje, a little coffee is a kopje koffie. Then there are things that are just little by default, like poffertjes. Aww, how cute! 
Dar with Grandma at Madurodam 
Sofia checking out the Rijksmuseum 
Me, standing behind Amsterdam's Westerkerk 
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