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It Just Started Getting Weird
We had finally arrived in Amsterdam. This has been a city high up on my travel list for the party factor alone. I love going places where you can go all out and get crazy and this was one of those places. The airport here is small and easy to get around in. Being my first time in a foreign airport I think I did pretty good navigating mine and James …
Making the Thanksgiving Feast
The Menu:
-turkey
-stuffing
-gravy
-rolls
-green bean casserole (minus the fried onions, because I don't feel like searching high and low for them- plus they're gross)
-sweet potatoes (minus the marshmallows, which was a bad call, since the Dutch eat marshmallows all the time)
-succotash
-mashed potatoes
-Jeremy's much-hyped pecan pie
The Setup:
1 kitchen that can fit 3 people squished ...
Sailing round the docks!
... making! I hadn't really realised that these are still worn (often outside the normal shoe) we were told that, being traditionally made of willow, they provided weather proofing (for water), safety (like wearing steel toe caps) and save wear and tear on the feet!! ""Aren't they uncomfortable?" some one asked - ""not after the first six months" came the reply! This place is obviously set up to cater for the obligatory trite tourist experience ...
In Amsterdam with the family
... it! I said goodbye to my 4 travelling companions at Central Station and went out to the front to meet up with Fin. It was good to see him. Bless him – he took control of the red bus and manhandled (the damn thing!) down a series of steps to the tram and then it was a straight run to Amstelveen. He had the car near the station and we hurtled through the streets to their home. So good to see Ria's smiling face and to once ...
Amsterdam
Last week we had a lot of tours of different institutions throughout the city. On Tuesday we got to go the the European Parliament and on Wednesday we got to go to NATO. NATO was amazing. We had two people who work for NATO talk to us and we got to sit in a room with the round table and where each seat has its own microphone. It was such a cool experience. I think that someday it would be fun to work there!
This weekend a bunch of ...