Queen's Day 2009

Yesterday was the big orange celebration of Koninginnedag, Queen's Day, here in The Netherlands. We celebrated as we always do, by visiting the queen's day free markets, basically huge yard sales on certain streets in the city. We always score lots of good junk. In a few years we will also set up a blanket to get rid of the junk we've acquired.
We were treated to a special Queen's Day breakfast consisting of an orange donut!
Out and about on Queen's Day
Unfortunately, this Queen's Day turned into a tragedy when shortly before noon a man in a car drove through some crowds along the way of the royal family's parade. He was apparently aiming towards the family, but instead ran straight on into a statue. Five people died, twelve more were injured, including three children (youngest was 9 years old), and a few police officers. The driver died early this morning as well. It was truly shocking news here in The Netherlands and ruined Queen's Day for 2009 and has undoubtedly changed Queen's Day forever. Most all festivities around the country were canceled or cut short yesterday, and the flags were lowered to half mast. See a news report about the attack here or here.

Updated to add that there has been another death this afternoon bringing the count to six plus the driver.