Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Eli loves art museums.

Well, we didn't fly on a plane today, but we did park at the airport (for reasons too boring to explain) and then take the train to downtown Amsterdam.  We extended our touristy weekend to include a day in Amsterdam today.  We tried to do a number of things in a short time, and mostly succeeded.  The weather was cooler, so the double-decker bus was a nice intro to the city.  We had time for a quick visit to the Rijksmuseum.  Eli hung out with his pal, the Merry Drinker and some others.

We also went to the Anne Frank museum.  It is a very good treatment of a wonderful and terrible story.  I can barely imagine.  The kids seemed to appreciate the gravity of the topic.  I will save the remaining details for the kids' postcard postings.

Tomorrow, I head to Florence for a couple of days of meetings but I will be back Tuesday night.  I'm staying at the Hotel de la Pace and hoping I might be able to score a free room.  I gotta say, it's kind of nice to just do an overnight trip to European libraries!