Flowers, Cheese, and Narrow Cobblestone Streets
August 9, 2018
We’ve been so busy dealing with logistics and the pets that we haven’t gotten to do much fun stuff, but today we finally got to experience Amsterdam.
But first, we had to get our biometrics taken. Our appointment was at 10:30 and we were finished within 15 minutes and now our fingerprints and faces are somewhere in a database, so that’s creepy.
We spent the next few hours exploring Amsterdam
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Bought my first bouquet of flowers at Blomenmarkt
James Wilson’s excited to grow his own flowers and herbs
He bought a giant strawberry meringue with the euros Grammy and Grampy gave him
Such a beautiful canal spot 
“Self Portrait of a Dreamer”
Obligatory IAMSTERDAM photo (JW’s climbing the “a”) 
After lunch at a cafe, we went back home to hang out with Brian and Kitty, but then we had our first appointments to look at apartments. More on those later….