Last night was early to bed, and this morning late to rise. Those Doubletree beds sure are comfortable! After a quick breakfast at Bob Evans across the street, it was off to our first destination just a couple of miles down the street - Windmill Island Gardens. The town we stayed in last night is called Holland, so it is only natural that it have a Dutch heritage, and some local Dutch attractions. Sure enough, Tulip Festival is really big around here, but that's in mid-May so we already missed it. The Windmill Island Gardens has an actual 250 year old Dutch windmill, disassembled in the Netherlands and shipped back here and reassembled back in the 1960's. It is a working windmill and has a miller on site who operates it to mill the grain they
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