Today I got another late start since I was awoken multiple times by Turkey fans celebrating outside (they won last night against the Czech Republic). I kinda wish the USA was involved in something similar to Euro08, our Superbowl doesn't nearly compare. We started with the Waterloopin flea market, which was mostly a lot of junk (as flea markets are), but fun to walk around and a few interesting trinkets to look at. It is in the heart of the Jewish section of Amsterdam so we saw some things related; notably the Jewish Resistance Fighters Memorial.
Our first museum of the day was a complete bust: the Amsterdam Hermitage. It has rotating exhibits from the Hermitage in St.Petersburg, so maybe we just caught a bad exhibit...but it's a tiny museum and costs 7 euro. Right now they just have a bunch of 19th century pictures of St.Petersburg. If I were Rick Steves this place would go under "major disappointments". But the rest of the day was really nice. We also took a tour of Rembrant's house. He lived there for 30ish years before being kicked out because he couldn't pay the mortgage (sound farmiliar?). We also took a tour of a house from a rich family of the 19th century who (when the owner died) left the house and all its possessions to Amsterdam to be a fully furnished museum. The wealth in the house was overwhelming including a 275 piece serving set for a party of 24 people.
Tonight we took a canal city boat cruise, which showed a lot of parts of the city that we had not seen before, mainly the bay which goes to North Amsterdam. It was interesting to see the more industrial side to this town. Although we both got a little seasick out there and prefered the parts in the canals. We finished off the day at a nice little Italian place and I (of course) ordered their homemade tiramisu. It was a good choice.
That's all for today, a little shorter than normal, but I'm trying to just pay for 30 mins of internet instead of the full hour. And quick news from home: I'm an aunt! Tania had her baby 2 days ago and both are doing just fine and went home yesterday.
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Congrats on becoming an Aunt!
Also, I'm so excited that you went to the Red Light District!
I saw pictures of the park in Amsterdam (when Gaylen went) and it was beautiful. So if someday you wish to move there, you have an Amanda who would probably move with you.
Looooove, Me
Sweet! We can totally live under some bushes and steal alcohol from the hobos. There is actually a hostel right on the edge of Vondelpark, I may come back to Amsterdam at the end of my trip and stay there.
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