Leiden Windmill

Hey! I finally have solid wifi at the van Neerrijnen's house, so I thought I'd post the stuff I took at the windmill in Leiden yesterday.  Basically, we just climbed 6 or 7 stories worth of ridiculously steep stairs (maybe an 80 deg. tilt?) and read about the history of windmills and restoration

 Stuff along the walls of each floor. This windmill is known as "De Valk", and was fully functional with grinding wheat. Turns out, the owner and his family lived in the bottom half, so all the work was done on top. They had lots of safety systems and methods for catching the wind.(e.g. The top can rotate to re-position when the wind changes direction, workers can climb on the sails to attach cloth when the wind is too weak/climb up and take the cloth off when the wind is too strong, ect.) 

But enough of the random spit-balls, here are some pics:

Lol so much for windmills huh? It's Michael Jackson at Dutch Mickey D's :DDD

Elvis Presley eating a Big Mack lol (probably misspelled that :P)

Ok, just tell me that's not epic. TELL MEHHH

Windmill we passed by on the way to De Valk museum

De Valk:

Model of a "whip mill"

Brick pattern. The smaller bricks are about 1/3 the length of normal US red clay bricks.