So I had asked my Secret Santa for a pack of cards from wherever they lived, to add it to my collection of cards from around the world. I was expecting something from, like, Pennsylvania, maybe as far away as England. But when I saw the return address was from the Netherlands, I fist pumped into the air. Canadians love Holland, for several reasons. One of the biggest is all our war graves that are there.

For those of you who may not know, Canadian soldiers played a large part in liberating Holland from the Germans. A great many of them lost their lives and were buried there. When the fighting moved to Germany and more soldiers died there, most were transported back to Holland for burial, rather than being interred in Germany (not sure why, but it was one of those things I learned). To this day, every Canadian soldier's grave is tended to by Dutch children. Every high school student gets a little choked up when we learn about this in Social Studies.

Sorry if I waxed a bit serious, now onto the photos!