July 29: Visiting my Great Grandpa's Farm

 We took Grandma with us to Gasselternijveenschemond. That is a very big name for a reallllly small town. We came here because Grandma wanted to see where she was born because she hasn't come back to the Netherlands since she immigrated to Canada. Gasselternijveenschemond is where Grandma was born - my great grand parents, her parents, used to live in the farm house that we visited, but Grandma was born in a smaller house across the street. 

In one of the rooms of the house, there were steps that went up to a bedroom, but then the steps pulled aside to reveal steps to the basement! From the outside, the house looked really big, but from the inside it was not actually that big because the house only took up about 1/4 of the inside space and the rest was a cow barn that was under the same roof. 

The house had a humongous barn, bigger than the house + barn, I think! The barn used to house the work horses for the farm.

There is a fietspad in front of the house, but when my grandpa was little, it used to be a canal!

There were three trees in front of the house when my grandpa was living there and they are still there right now! I thought it was cool to visit the farm because I got to see where my grandma's family lived. 

We got to see 

Gasselternijveenschemond!

These 2 trees were there when my grandma was born there!

This is my great Grandfather and his family before WWI in Gasselternijveenschemond.

The owner of the farm house had a kitty cat and it was adorable. It liked me.