Koninginnedag! HUGE party day in The Netherlands. It's a country wide holiday where the themes are drinking, orange, selling junk, orange, outdoor concerts, orange, smoking ;-), orange, and drinking...oh yea, and orange. We biked into Amsterdam with some friends to check out the heart of the celebrations. This is the largest street party that I've ever been to...they say 2 million people on the streets of Amsterdam...I'm guessing it's one of the top 5 in the world - rivaled only by the likes of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Bands were playing on every plein and the streets were clogged with partiers. But for me, the highlight was the canals. Holy shit! The canals were packed with party boats. The larger boats had DJ's blasting music and people were dancing and jumping between them. It looked like a bumper boat parade there were so many. The sides of the canals and bridges were lined with many parties of their own and the whole scene was somewhat surreal.
I took these pictures...but it doesn't really do it justice without audio. I have a bit of a crappy video clip from my digital camera if anyone with higher bandwith would like to see it.
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