All Good Things Come To An End

Yesterday Frans, Lotte and I went on the Spido tour of Rotterdam Harbor. It was a cold day but it was a lot of fun to see the harbor from the water level since I already saw it from the Euromast. The Rotterdam Harbor is the 3rd largest port in the world behind Singapor and Shanghai and is a very busy port. I took a lot of pictures of all the buildings and then the tour took us back into where all the shipping containers are. One of my favorite things to see was the boats that suck out the sand from the bottom of the harbor and put it in the boat to keep the sand from building up on the bottom of the port since it needs to be deep for the ships.

Last night was my going away party at the Orioles. Most of my teammates were there and a lot of them brought me gifts. I dont know how i'm going to fit everything in my bags now! It was really nice and I got a lot of nice things. My coach blew up a picture of me from our promotion games after I got a hit and am coming out to let Lotte run for me. Its not that attractive of a picture of me but I thought it was very nice of her and i'm sure my dad will like it, he can hang it up in his office. I also got a "friendship" book which are pretty big here when youre younger and in school. and YES its a Disney Princess book :] All of my team had written in it (behind my back..so sneaky!) and it just says things like your name, birthday, favorite color, what you dont like, what you want to be when youre older, how we met, and what your favorite memory with me was. It was really fun to read everyones responses and when I got to the end of the book and read Margreet and Frans' entries I almost lost it! Frans got a carboard cutout of the statue of liberty a while ago from work and brought it home and I always thought it was so funny and then last night when I got to the club I saw what they did with it. They put a softball print out on her hand and a note to me on her clipboard she was holding in the cutout. Very cute.

Today Lotte, Frans, Margreet and I went to Den Haag. I hadn't been there yet so it was a nice day with sunny weather to go walk around or a bit. Den Haag is where the queen lives so we got to see that and then the huge government buildings there, along with a lot of shops. Tonight the 4 of us are going out to dinner in Rotterdam. Niels is gone all weekend with the team he helped coach, they are at a theme park. He will be back tomorrow night. Tomorrow i'm just going to be packing and cleaning and waiting for 3am to get ready for my long journey home! I'm getting very anxious. Can't wait to see everyone! Doei.

-Liv

(pics from Den Haag & last night are below)

 <--this is where the Queen lives.

<--rotterdam harbor