Music in the Garden by Emily

On Monday we went to a flower garden called Keukenhof. It was fun. We had lunch at one of the pavilions. It was called the Wilhelmina Pavilion. Apparently they served Dutch food. I am not quite sure what the definition of Dutch food is. Mom had this kind of green slop. It turned out to be spinach and mashed potato mushed together. I had a bit and it was okay. After that we walked for a while, until we got to the Juliana Pavilion. At the Juliana Pavilion, we watched some short videos and looked at the poster things they had around. When we started walking away from that pavilion we heard music. We heard drums, horns, bells, maybe some piano music. So, we walked toward the sound. We found ourselves at the main entrance (we came through the non-main entrance). What we thought was a live band turned out to be a single machine. It was very pretty. There were people carved out of wood, and when you heard the sound of a bell, you saw them hit the bells with their stick thing. We walked around to the back to see how it worked. I used to have this music box, and to make it go you put in a long piece of paper with holes in it and turned a crank. The machine was just like that except it was a lot bigger and there were drums. The song we first heard was some kind of orchestra song. We looked on the sides of the folded up cardboard (the long pieces you put in for it to make noise) and saw some very interesting song choices. Georgia and I found it a bit weird when we saw Bad Romance on the cardboard. How exactly is a machine orchestra supposed to play a song by Lady Gaga? Anyway, when the first song was finished, the man put in a new piece of cardboard and the machine started playing Vida La Viva by Coldplay. Mom started laughing like crazy. After we walked away, told parents we wanted ice cream, looked at gardens, got ice cream, looked at more gardens, went up a windmill, sat in a wooden shoe, bought some things and walked to the non-main entrance/exit, we left.  I really like Keukenhof.  (: Emily :)