Took me a while to find the pictures, I learn new ways to navigate on this website every day, don't I? xD
They look awesome though! Some of those costumes look like they took way too much time to make, amazing! Also I assume that's your husband to the right on the first pic, he looks like a totally cool dude, just wanted to mention that. x)
I also prefer Queen's day over Carnival though I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because there is no hassle of costumes as the entire country just transforms into a sea of orange for a day, and everyone gets treated the same no matter what. I love seeing tourists prancing around Amsterdam at that time, everyone is just having so much fun!
I still have to get used to saying 'Kings Day' though! xD
Which is why I'm very, very, VERY happy that I started my connection with English when I was only 4 years old. By the time I finally got English in school I could understand and speak it already, albeit only at a very basic level. You can imagine the teachers being very annoyed with me at the time, not being able to pay attention because of boredom and correcting them at times.
It just feels like 'gutturals' interrupt all the other smooth tones so they're hard to ignore. I do hope you get used to hearing them though, I was slowly driving myself insane when I couldn't stop noticing it all the time. ^^;