PDPW Day 6 Lely, Water Mgmnt, World Horti

 

Our day started off with our trip to Maassluis to the headquarters of Lely robotics.  I was excited with the trip as we had seen the robotics at many of the dairies we toured use them and it would be a dream to have. 

 

The newest milking machine robotic the A5

I could get used to this!  Every place we went served coffee! 

Stroopwafels too!!  Yes please!

We got to wear these fancy duck shoes...seemed more of a safety risk than anything.   

Since Cameras were banned from the factory, this was all I got...whoops. 

Our fabulous group and our goody bags!! 

After a fabulous lunch we headed out passing the Lely cows in the roundabout.  We next headed to the Water Management Center for Holland...won't lie...I thought we were going to a sewage plant...YIKES!

To my shock it was an engineering feat of all feats!!  This controls the water for all of Holland!!  Their work was so impressive they have been called into many places to re-engineer where devastation has taken place. 

 This thing was just insane!  It basically was like two arms that held back the water when the flood water came and prevented the flooding for the entire country.  It worked in conjunction with other gates that helped prevent a horrible flood like they had years ago that killed thousands of people. 

More great group photo ops!!  LOL!

Our next stop was the World Horti Center 

The most interesting part was looking at all the greenhouse flowers.  I had no idea so many of the greenhouses existed in this region. 

The Horti Center was a facility for educating all people on the cutting edge new ideas and training for the future of green houses. 

 

After our day of tours we were given the evening on our own.  We went to a cute little restaurant.  It was a nice and needed down time to be with just the two of us after spending 6 days straight with the group at every moment.  It really made it hard to unwind each day as the energy from the group was always present.  This was a great evening in the little square in Gouda.