Sunday we felt no need to pack the day in tightly. Plus I've noticed that Amsterdam is about as excited as waking up early as I am. With the exception of the mesmerizing bike & pedestrian choreography in the intersection (because the tourists don't have to be at work at 8AM), the city seems comfortably sleepy. I noticed that even market vendors weren't even fully setup until 11AM. Nice. It was rainy, so we all started the mission of eating up all the rest of the food in the house and headed out on trips: Robyn, Kora and I headed to the flower market and shopping along Leidestraat, and others to check out the Church of St. Nicholas where the three of us had been a few days before - right next to Central Station. I even made my only other phone-call on the trip: a call to George to arrange a 7AM pickup. In-between was some packing, organizing, vacuuming, dusting, dishes, misc. clean-up, etc. The kids and the parents tag-teamed an hour or so out in our neighborhood. The former to a nice brown cafe down the road, and the latter on a dusk bridge tour on the canals.
We stayed up a bit, but headed to bed to get some rest for our early pickup. It actually was nice to stay in and relax; just knowing that the whole city was available to entertain us on our whim was pretty fun.
Sunday we felt no need to pack the day in tightly. Plus I've noticed that Amsterdam is about as excited as waking up early as I am. With the exception of the mesmerizing bike & pedestrian choreography in the intersection (because the tourists don't have to be at work at 8AM), the city seems comfortably sleepy. I noticed that even market vendors weren't even fully setup until 11AM. Nice. It was rainy, so we all started the mission of eating up all the rest of the food in the house and headed out on trips: Robyn, Kora and I headed to the flower market and shopping along Leidestraat, and others to check out the Church of St. Nicholas where the three of us had been a few days before - right next to Central Station. I even made my only other phone-call on the trip: a call to George to arrange a 7AM pickup. In-between was some packing, organizing, vacuuming, dusting, dishes, misc. clean-up, etc. The kids and the parents tag-teamed an hour or so out in our neighborhood. The former to a nice brown cafe down the road, and the latter on a dusk bridge tour on the canals.
We stayed up a bit, but headed to bed to get some rest for our early pickup. It actually was nice to stay in and relax; just knowing that the whole city was available to entertain us on our whim was pretty fun.
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