Back to Maassluis

Well in the post we said we would be heading off to Germany but we recieved some 'blackmail' from our good friends-PJ and Claudia (http://www.dutchduowildlife.nl/)- to attend PJ's birthday party on Monday. So we left Borne and drove across the country (which isn't very big so it's not that far). We stopped to make cards with limited art supplies and bought some Graanjenever (Gin for PJ) once we found the special liquor stall in the supermarket. Five o'clock, we arrived at their newly rennovated and lime green mobile home in Maassluis and told tales of our travels in Holland since we'd seen them (only two weeks ago).
We had yet another dutch BBQ and met their friends and had a fun party.
Next day we got up late and mucked around. In the afternoon PJ and Claudia went off to the dentist and we met up outside Claudia's brother's apartment in the centre of Rotterdam. We walked to a market selling various things and Claudia bought some fabric for a witches dress because she is such a talented tailoress.
We came across an interesting candy stall and in true liberation of the Netherlands people we purchesed and observed licorice drop resembling that of the male sex organs.
Next to the market we came across some very interesting buildings also known as the Tree Houses(pictured above). We went inside one of the small yellow cubes tilted and sitting on poles. The cubes are split into three levels, the bottom levels you can see the street below and the top gives a view of Rotterdam (and the other 'Treehouses'). There were lot's of these interesting shaped houses clustered together like a forest. We really liked seeing how it's possible to live in one but wouldn't be to keen on doing it ourselves.
We walked along the 'Manhattan-like' skyline of Rotterdam and  drove along the eight to ten lane motorway but to Maasluis and ate all the leftovers from last night night in the pouring rain under PJ' leaky shelter.