Hello again from Amsterdam. Our last full day of our wonderful trip and it was sunny and mild. Everyone here is complaining on how cold and late the spring is, but the beautiful sunshine was more than enough to make up for it.
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We are off to an Indonesian place for dinner.
Never eaten this type of food, but I am game for anything. |
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Indonesian food and ordered a "rice table" which was about 9 different dishes that we shared.
Yum, some spicy, some not, all good! |
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| Then, of course, no trip to Amsterdam would be complete without a walk through the "red light" district. |
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| water balloons |
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| red light district |
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| cowboy boots! |
Easter Sunday we left for the Scheepvaart museum, which is the maritime museum of the VOC. (Dutch East India Company.) It was a fabulous museum, showing all kinds of navigation instruments, etc.
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| Central Station |
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| Trolley (Tram) lines |
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| The crying tower where women went to mourn their men at sea |
water taxi
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| Sea Palace, floating Chinese restaurant |
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| Looks good for Easter brunch? |
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| Dim Sum for Easter! Beats ham! |
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| We were really the only Caucasians there without Asians. |
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So cute girls!
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| Am I sure I want to eat this? |
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| EWWWWW! |
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| I don't think so |
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| Jerry ordered this, disgusting! |
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| Coconut balls filled with Lotus goo |
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| If you say so |
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| The food was actually very good, considering we just pointed and hoped. |
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| to here |
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| Maritime museum and the ship we got to tour |
This place was so cool! We really had fun and the ship was amazing!!!! It was like being on a pirate ship, although it was a replica of a 17th century trading ship from the East Indian Company.
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| Ship Prow Mastheads |
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| The big dipper |
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| Astroglobe - instruments to measure where you are |
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| Lots of ship art |
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| The VOC East Indian |
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| Friendly ship mascot, a big RAT! |
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| Ready, aim, fire! |
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| This is a BIG rope |
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| In the captain's cabin |
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| The potty |
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| Upper deck |
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| The hold |
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| Cafe at the Amrath Hotel - Beautiful |
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| Having fun! |
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| Walked through the Red light district - again! |
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| Inside the trolley |
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| Walked through the Oosterpark |
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| Crocus and Daffodils |
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| Back on the Tram |
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| First a trip to the English Hatters for a hat for Jerry |
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| Kristine looks good in anything, but this hat is great! |
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| Gotta have it! |
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Monday we met Kris's friend Josime for lunch at a typical
Dutch place that was built in 1400's.
Really, and it hadn't had much done to it since. But great food. |
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| Kris and Josime |
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| My sandwich ---huge |
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| Jerry's BLTA - Bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado |
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| Kris' goat cheese and pine nuts |
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| Josime got Pumpkin Soup |
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| Then off to the Van Gogh museum |
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| Coffee, beer, and tea with the peeps |
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| 2 good lookin' hats! |
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| Palm beer! |
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| We didn't have this, but it is apple pie!!!!!! |
Came back and made h'ors douvers and soup and had friends in. Lots of fun. Kris and Jerry are sleeping, and I should be. Big day tomorrow. We have had such fun here. Great way to end our trip. I will try to post from the airport tomorrow with impressions of the trip, but right now, I need to sleep. Good night. Fly home tomorrow. Home late tomorrow night. Donkey don (They say that is Dutch, but I think they are making it up!) Ciao!
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