Hamsterdam

We have been in Amsterdam for five days. On the first full day that we were in Amsterdam, we bought a family ticket for a canal cruise tour thing. The ticket lasted for 24 hours so we could be on the boat until Friday at 11. In Amsterdam, the three main things we wanted to see were the marine museum, the Anne Frank House and NEMO. In five days we have only managed to see the marine museum. Anyway, on the first day, we got on to the canal boat and started on our commantarried tour. There was Dutch, French, German and English. We stayed on the boat until we got to a restaurant that we wanted to have lunch at (it was a hop on hop off kind of thing). On the boat we met a couple from the United States. My dad had a long conversation with them. The restaurant that we had lunch at was called the Pannenkeuken Huiz which was (you guessed it) a place where they sold pancakes. I had the things called poffortjes (the J sounds like a Y) with strawberries, whipped cream and powdered sugar. After that we walked around a little waiting for the next boat. Georgia started getting very grumpy. I can’t really remember what we did after that so we couldn’t have done anything to significant. Oh well, there was one thing. We stopped at one of the stops called the dapper market hoping to go to the market. Unfortunately, we had forgotten that it was a holiday (don’t ask me what holiday!), so the market was not open. Dad had not wanted to go to the market, but he saw a boat museum, so he went to that. When we saw that there was no market, we decided to find dad so that we could get back to the boat in time. My dad has a friend in Kingston who is Dutch. He has a son who lives in Amsterdam. Dad had been trying to get in touch with the guys son (whose name is Friso), so that they could meet. Apparently, when my dad was going through the gates a guy drove up and my dad helped him open the gates. They talked for a bit and then realized that they had been emailing each other recently. Things happened and before we knew it, we had plans to go on a personal tour on Friso’s boat guided by him. The next day it was cold and windy but we still went out on our tour. In Amsterdam, we have seen three giant cruise ships. We went past two of them on our little tour. After that we went to home. I will write more on a different day.

This is a picture taken on our personal tour with Friso

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JEMILYJ is excited to have started our trip