On April 30th Queen Beatrix abdicates the Dutch throne and crowns her son Prince Willem-Alexander. Since Stint Eustatius is a municipality within the kingdom of the netherlands and part of the lesser Antilles, there was a big celebration in town. I believe they started the festivities at 6am and as much as I wanted to be there we don't move that quickly so early on, well my kids do, me not so much. So we ventured out a little later and basically saw the after math of the ceremonies. It was fun to see everyone dressed in orange and some houses were even decorated. There was a parade in the afternoon but the funny thing about Statia is that nothing is scheduled, if you see it then you got lucky, but Eli needed a nap and we were not about to wait around all afternoon with no idea where and when it began. We actually saw a bit of it on TV a few days later. The capital of Statia is called Oranjestad, which in Dutch means Orange:)
Fort Oranje
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