The Mill Museum by Zander

-Pictures 1st playing on photo booth
-Second at the mill with Sarah

On the 3rd day in Amsterdam, we saw what the Netherlands was famous for (besides brothels) the windmills. It was a 1 hour drive to get to the museum from Amsterdam. On that drive, my dad told us about what we were going to see. The Dutch have been harvesting the wind since the 16th century. There are windmills all over the country side, but we are going to the museum of wind mills. I was exited.

The windmill museum wasn't really a museum but a bunch of different types of wind mills that we could tour for a fee. We went into a wood mill and a chalk and pigment grinding mill. It was really crazy how many moving parts there were in the mill to cut logs or grind pigments.
Now days, we could cut wood and grind stone. But with modern equipment, the tool would be way smaller and take much less time to complete the task. It took about 2 hours to cut a log with this big wind mill. Now a days, we could cut a log in a few minutes with a chain saw. It just shows what technology could do. I thought that the Dutch were really smart to harness wind power and use the power very efficiently.