waitin' for the tram.
(real dutch flowers)Yes, family, I'm still alive. And feeling quite fabulous, actually. At first, the time was creeping by ever so slowly, and rather uncomfortably, to be honest, but the past two weeks have FLOWN. Time is back to it's usual jive, I suppose, and life is full of stories. Current city? Madrid. But let me back up a tad...
So Lily, Josh, and I survived Amsterdam, city of contradictions. ....for now, check out the photos. More on that when I get a spare string of moments...
aboard the stena discovery, "the fastest high-speed ferry in the world!" (took us from england to holland)
they know how it should be done in the netherlands (view from the ferry)
apparently people like mini-casinos on their high-speed ferries??
along the canals -- heLLO, Amsterdam!
mmm... smell the wooden tulips. ??
street
KOEKEN! (=cookies, one of the only Dutch words we learned - along with Zakkenroller, which means pickpocket, in case you needed to know..)
plaque reads: ANNE FRANK HUIS
first night out
i saw how beer is made (thanks, heineken!)
street near the hotel
