Orange is Everywhere - Sundays in My City

I posted the other day about Queen's Day (now King's Day). Everywhere you looked there was orange.  People wearing orange, orange flags and banners and balloons.  Suits this orange-lover just fine!  If you're wondering why the Dutch celebrate in orange when the colors of the flag are red, white and blue (which you knew, of course), well...

Orange is the color of the Dutch Royal Family. The lineage of the current dynasty -- the House of Oranje-Nassau -- dates back to Willem van Oranje (William of Orange). But while the color orange has royal roots in the Netherlands, today it symbolizes a broader pride in the country and in being Dutch. The Dutch national soccer team wears orange. Dutch olympians wear orange.

There were more people in my little village (it's a national holiday) than I have ever seen.  I might have missed something earlier in the day (I don't know because I was at work) for the big handing over of power but when I finally got there it was basically just a big flea market.  The street was very crowded and since Dutch people are ridiculously tall I get frequent elbows to the face and head when I'm in crowds here and shopping isn't my thing so I didn't stay long.

No joke, the top of my head was at his elbow.

I didn't realize the camera was set to B&W when I took this and it makes me sad because he was so cute in his orange cape and crown!

"Queen's Day, Coronation Day, King's Day, Koningedag (not an actual word)" It was hard to know what to call the day.  According to Google Translate, the caption at the bottom says, "Let's talk a bit about it."  That doesn't make sense to me because the word "talk" doesn't appear but perhaps it's a saying I'm not familiar with. 

I should have rotated it so that the stripes represented the Dutch flag. Here they represent the French flag.  Oops!

That's all I have from Queen's Day.  Check out what's happening in other parts of the world over at Unknown Mami.