Another great day. First the weather. Teh first 2 days the weather was perfect...sunny and about 60 degrees, since then the clouds have come in but the temp is still hovering around60-65.... not complaints. Don't need alot of the layers we brought. But just in case. We checked the weather and next week will be sunny and even warmer!!!!
Today we slept in to 9:00...oh yea. The upsons are on their own and will be gone now to Munchen. We ate a nice breakfast...made our lunch and were off to walk the city. No real plans, just play it all by ear. We walked to a big park where we had seen some gorgeous flowers blooming and took a bunch of pics. I know it is kind of dumb since we are off to where there will be acres of them tomorrow. Then we took the trolley back to the flower market to look some more (it was so big we missed alot the other day) and bought a bunch of Christmas decs. Neat.... Then to the flea market. It was on the other side of the city and of course we got alittle lost. But that did not stop us from finding it finally. It was really a true flea market, lots of clothes (second had mostlly) some real cheap stuff and some neat old junk anteques. it was fun. Then to the Botanical Garden but our free city ticket had ellapsed so we nixed that.....most plants were Floridian anyway!!!
Then decided to take the long way back all through the old city with stops for beer and bathroom. Lots of pitctures of bikes, weirdos, kids and such....remember it is Sat. here and EVERYONE IS OUT FOR THE DAY. Lots of stores and neat stuff along the way. We made it to the one of the oldest churches in Europe....it was great....very primitive compared to the one we saw yesterday. But gorgious in its way. They had a another gorgeous organ and pipes...I just love those. Also had a 4 story spiral staircase to the roof.............wow.
Then off to another food market with tons and tons of cheeses and odd items..... I bet it is only open on weekends the way it looked. Of course we stopped for lunch earlier at a nice park, this time we could actually sit on a bench and eat.
Decided to go back home around 5:00 and rest this day. WE cheated and took the trolley all the way back...nice. WE had bought some neat stuff and now had to figure how we were going to fit them all in our small bags.....yaaa we did. We then relaxed and looked at all our pics....some really good ones....and tons of the city. Went to dinner near by at anothher Indonesain restaurnat. Very nice. Had the same Rice Table it is called where they give you rice and then serve 15 or so different small portions of things...veggies, meat, chicken, shrimp, crab.....wow. But must admit that this one was good but NOT as good as last nights. I gave this one a B but last night was a solid A+. Back to hotel and now to finish the blog so I can relax tomorrow before we go to train station to go to Haarlem. We are there all day or most of the day (it is only about a 20 minute ride by train) and tour the city and then the next day pick up the car and head for the flower fields!!! The bad thing is that we have to slep the bags on the trolley to the station....not too bad because we are about 100 yards from the trolley pickup and it goes straight to the train station. That is exactly why we travel light!!!
I now hope the Upsons had a nice day also....they took an all day tour of the flower area...where we are goibng. And then they have a night train tonight to Munchen.
Good luck Tom, Ann Marie and Jeff. See you at home.
Night night all.
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