The Netherlands and Brussels

October 16-26

(dara) The art has been fabulous! I love it! We went to the Rijks Museum (Amsterdam), Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), Mauritshuis (Den Hague) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam). My personal favorites include: Van Gogh's Branches of an Olive Tree Blossom, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and A View of Delft, Bruegel de Oude's Tower of Babel, Avercamp's winter ice skating scenes, Bosch's The Pedlar and Marriage of Cana, and the list goes on. I would definitely recommend it for those art lover out there.

Jim & I spent the weekend hanging out with Karen & Marshall in Brussels. It was a fun weekend with lots of good food, good beer and good chocolate! It was great to catch up with friends! It was even better to see how much their daughters have grown up. :) They are adorable.

We are off to Frankfurt tomorrow a.m. It is about a four hour train ride, and we are planning on renting a car for the week. After hauling our backpacks for the last week, it is going to be nice to put them in a car instead of walking with them. We are definitely looking forward to getting rid of some of our winter clothes in about three weeks. :)

Have a good week!