Whew. Found the commemorative magazine supplement. I was wrong about the size of the crowd photo at Dam Square, and am now not sure if Gerrit, our Dutch friend, was even there with us. He may just have known that we went. So, because Geewits asked... 
There we are - can you see me? In the bottom right ^ corner. I've long blonde hair, wearing what looks like an orangey jacket. There is a young,
I love it. It's kind of almost magical when one finds shots of oneself and former days like that - really takes you down memory lane! And makes one wonder where all the years inbetween went!
ReplyDeleteI see you! I see you!...couldn't find you in the cropped pic but when I "embiggened" the second pic I could easily find you...just like "Where's Waldo"...
ReplyDeleteGosh darn it, I thought that was you wearing the ermine robe and enthroned! ;)
ReplyDeleteJK, I found you!
At first I thought that was you, sitting next to the Queen. :-) But I found you in the photograph.
ReplyDeleteHi Violey
ReplyDeletethat was fun just like Oliag said - but "where's Wally" as our edition says...not Waldo
:) very cool
ReplyDeleteOnce you described it and I enlarged the photo - easy! That was fun.
ReplyDeleteCitizen: Yeah, I think I made it too easy.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to change that for the rest of you
I found you too, when I enlarged - sorry, embiggened - the photo. That's pretty neat! Made me start wondering where I was on April 30, 1980. If it was a weekday, I was in a classroom. If it was at the weekend, I was probably drinking with my boyfriend (or worse!).
ReplyDeleteThanks! That was fun. You look so cute. Thanks for finding the mag for me. Now I want to know how you ended up over there to begin with.
ReplyDeleteWhat? These aren't all your friends???
ReplyDeleteGeewits will get the story out of you, bit by bit she will.
I always wonder where one goes for a pee when in such a large crowd.
ReplyDeleteCJ xx
Pinklea: whatever you were doing, I'm sure it would be a blogworthy story!
ReplyDeleteGeewits: Ha, sometimes church has a way to allow one to get far away from home.
Jazz: Some might have been by the end of the day, who knows?
Crystal: Well, this was Amsterdam, afterall...
Yep, I saw you. So was this an "Oh look, the Queen." sort of moment? What was the occasion, as Dutch is not a language I am even remotely familiar with.
ReplyDeleteMr Nighttime: The cover says "The day of the two Queens. Queen Juliana, who had reigned since 1948, abdicated in favour of her eldest (of four) daughters, Beatrix.
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting memo to have!
ReplyDeleteVery exciting and just as hard as *Where's Wally*
ReplyDeleteHave it made into a jigsaw just to be really hard!
Who is your favorite? - Juliana or Beatrix? They have such different personalities!
ReplyDeleteI'm leaning towards Beatrix.
What I find is that it is so hard to tell people who have never lived in a kindgom to explain, that you just didn't "happen" to be there in the crowd, because you didn't have anything else to do that day!
Sagittarian: yes, it was an exciting time.
ReplyDeleteMaggie May: people have done that with photos, that would be fun!
Jeannette: I think Beatrix, but mostly from following her more. I was very sad about Juliana's end of life. And it is a different feeling living with a monarchy.