Museum and day at the beach

The kids and I enjoyed a visit to Cruquius, a museum showing an old steam run water pump station used to pump out the Harlem Lake in 1849--it took 3 years to pump it dry, which is now fully developed. Amazing to see how they managed the water.
We also visited the Panoram Mesdag but were unable to photograph. It is a painting by Mesdag that gives you a 360 degree view of Scheveningen done in 1881. After this we spent the rest of the afternoon with Thera on the beach in Scheveningen which is next to Den Hague.
Still to cold to really swim so a big pit was dug, Nicholas developed blisters and sore stomache muscles after 2.5 hours of digging. Morgan was the only one to get into the water.
Wednesday in Warmond is the day that the "Herring Man" is around so we always have herring for lunch on Wednesday--this is how many of the dutch eat herring although we put in on a nice slice of bread.