Hi you guys!
We are having such a wonderful time. We arrived late yesterday afternoon (Saturday), as our flight out of NYC was SIX HOURS LATE! But it was a nice flight afterall. We had exit rows, and lots of let room! Still uncomfortable when you can't lay down, but here we are in beautiful Amsterdam. Thank heavens for Marriott points -- as that is paying for our stay! We checked in and then took a lovely canal cruise around the city. We did that yesterday, and after the canal cruise we went looking for dinner. We found an "Irish pub" and were able to eat outside -- fish and chips. There was a group of men there who were semi-drunk -- they were all from Ireland, but work here in Holland for Nike. They were funny as heck! They were so friendly to us and so interested in everything that we were doing, where we were from, etc., etc. Then, we went to sleep at 9:00 pm and slept so soundly until 7:30 a.m.! We went and found a Mormon Church that started at 10o:00. We enjoyed it so much, and, of course, everyone is so friendly. We used headphones so we could understand everything, but half of it was in English. During the hymns -- singing time -- they just give you the page number, and if you know English, you sing it in English -- otherwise you sing it in Dutch. It sounded really pretty all together like that. Jesse recognized a girl there who was touring Amsterdam with her mother. (She works in the eye clinic office he uses in Provo) and she had won two trips on the Price is Right! After Church, we went out to Kuekenhof -- a town about an hour and a half away to see the beautiful tulip gardens and flowers everywhere. It was amazing! We took bus to the train station, then took a train, then another bus to get there. It was so wonderful! You would not believe all the beautiful tulips in bloom -- fields and fields of them. The place that we went to in Kukenhof was an 80-acre park -- set up much like Disneyland without the rides but same amount of people, just full of different gardens of different flowers -- flowers of every variety mixed in with the tulips in all these beautiful gardens, along with beautiful walkways, fountains, waterfalls, little rivers, and there was even a big wooden windmill that we got to climb into and go up in. We were there for at least 4 hours, but could have stayed longer.
Tomorrow we are off to the Anne Frank House, art museums, etc. Lots of walking. Yesterday and today have been nice weather. We expect some rain tomorrow.
We send our love!. Mike and Gloria
We are having such a wonderful time. We arrived late yesterday afternoon (Saturday), as our flight out of NYC was SIX HOURS LATE! But it was a nice flight afterall. We had exit rows, and lots of let room! Still uncomfortable when you can't lay down, but here we are in beautiful Amsterdam. Thank heavens for Marriott points -- as that is paying for our stay! We checked in and then took a lovely canal cruise around the city. We did that yesterday, and after the canal cruise we went looking for dinner. We found an "Irish pub" and were able to eat outside -- fish and chips. There was a group of men there who were semi-drunk -- they were all from Ireland, but work here in Holland for Nike. They were funny as heck! They were so friendly to us and so interested in everything that we were doing, where we were from, etc., etc. Then, we went to sleep at 9:00 pm and slept so soundly until 7:30 a.m.! We went and found a Mormon Church that started at 10o:00. We enjoyed it so much, and, of course, everyone is so friendly. We used headphones so we could understand everything, but half of it was in English. During the hymns -- singing time -- they just give you the page number, and if you know English, you sing it in English -- otherwise you sing it in Dutch. It sounded really pretty all together like that. Jesse recognized a girl there who was touring Amsterdam with her mother. (She works in the eye clinic office he uses in Provo) and she had won two trips on the Price is Right! After Church, we went out to Kuekenhof -- a town about an hour and a half away to see the beautiful tulip gardens and flowers everywhere. It was amazing! We took bus to the train station, then took a train, then another bus to get there. It was so wonderful! You would not believe all the beautiful tulips in bloom -- fields and fields of them. The place that we went to in Kukenhof was an 80-acre park -- set up much like Disneyland without the rides but same amount of people, just full of different gardens of different flowers -- flowers of every variety mixed in with the tulips in all these beautiful gardens, along with beautiful walkways, fountains, waterfalls, little rivers, and there was even a big wooden windmill that we got to climb into and go up in. We were there for at least 4 hours, but could have stayed longer.
Tomorrow we are off to the Anne Frank House, art museums, etc. Lots of walking. Yesterday and today have been nice weather. We expect some rain tomorrow.
We send our love!. Mike and Gloria
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