Meeting Mad, Mad, MAD housewife in a mad zoo

Two weeks ago we - Monkey and I - met the funniest mommy blogger in blogiverse mad housewife and her lovely husband and incredibly smart and polite children.

The day started with a train ride from The Hague to Amsterdam

Monkey LOVES train rides. Bread crusts? Not so much.

So anyway, we choose Artis zoo as the place to be that afternoon, and that's where we met:

She says she's old, but if I look that hot at 66, I would be thrilled. KIDDING, kidding. MadMad, you're not old, you're BEAUTIFUL!

ANYWAY, finally my Monkey met her monkeys:

And they all had fun walking around the zoo.

There was even a group photo of the kids (and believe me, that llama in the background cooperated better than Monkey, who is treating me like paparazzi, like I would EVER post compromising photos of him on my blog.)

After the zoo, we walked to the city to have dinner... Monkey even let MadMad hold him for a short while..

Then my husband joined us for a lovely dinner, during which we did some crafting (who knew we were the creative types!) Mad's husband showed some kick-ass origami skills and Monkey cut just about every piece of paper on the table with his knife. (did I just admit we let Monkey play with knives?)

After dinner these guys went of to see the music that we had heard all through dinner. They grabbed some chairs and watched the street musicians like they were in a concert.

I later joined Monkey and danced with him. One of the musisian (old, gray, two gold teeth in the front of his mouth) thought I was dancing with him. Ehm no.

And you probably wouldn't believe it, but I'm going to tell you anyway. An older woman (complete stranger) grabbed my arm while we were walking away, and said "YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD MOM!" "Dancing with your son like that" "You're a GREAT mom!" and she went on about it. And I thanked her AND checked to see if I still had my iPhone and wallet when she turned around. Because I trust people. But not in touristy cities.

And than there was ice cream

LOTS of ice cream

The internet isn't big enough to describe the mess this ice cream made.

We ended our day with a performance of break-dancers on Leidse Plein. Of course, Monkey joined in. I had a little video of it and posted it on yFrog but can't get the thing to work. But there's a photo:

Mad Housewife, we had a fabulous time! Thank you for sharing your last day in Europe with us!

(Most photos courtesy of mad housewife since I didn't bring mine to spare my poor little back that had to carry the toddler around :)