Namechanged as this will out me.
We are flying to The Hague tomorrow to spend the weekend with DH’s extended family. We normally meet up in a different Dutch town, so I was very pleased when this was initially proposed as The Hague is a much more interesting place to visit - good shopping, a beach to go for a walk on, the Escher museum, a Christmas market, Madura Dam (model village type thing).
But. PIL don’t like crowds, so the Christmas market and shopping generally is out. The weather forecast is not good, so now the beach and Madura Dam have been vetoed too. I suggested we all just get togged up in wet weathers and go out anyway, but this met with tumbleweed.
Oh well, I thought, there’s still the Escher Museum, which was the main thing I wanted to do anyway. Turns out it’s not a member of the museums scheme that the family are all members of, so they won’t go because they’d have to pay. They have found a children’s science museum to go to instead, which will be free (but not for us as we are not members of this scheme).
I looked at reviews of this museum, and there are a lot of comments about the lack of English in the explanations about the exhibits. This won’t be a problem for DH or the dc, but my Dutch is crap (I’ve tried, honestly I have...), so this is shaping up to be a pretty disappointing afternoon - frustrating when there are so many other, better things to do! DH says I’m outvoted (true) and I should just suck it up.
So, WIBU unreasonable to bugger off for the couple of hours they are all at the kiddy science place, and take myself round the Escher Museum instead? DH thinks this is antisocial and unacceptable. I wouldn’t object if someone was visiting me and wanted to do something different from the rest of the crowd; but it’s his family not mine so perhaps I should just go along with it? What is the verdict of the MN jury?