Say Cheese!

Day trip to historic Alkmaar today!  The town is 40 minutes outside Amsterdam and has been important trade market since the Middle Ages.

Every Friday, the men of the "cheese carrier's guild" demonstrate how the cheese was inspected and weighed at market during the Golden Age.  Quite a spectacle!

And lovin' the fact that this day trip afforded us the opportunity to wish a good friend a happy 40th. :-)