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After two back-to-back holidays, the streets were again buzzing with activity. In retrospect, we enjoyed the quiet streets to ourselves, not worrying about being run over by a bike or a random car; free to wander the numerous canals, take photos and simply enjoy the quiet of
We made our way to the Van Gogh museum today; we weaved our way through crowds of people arriving in the city to celebrate New Year’s Eve, grabbed a Strippenkaart, rolled out to Museumplein, and found ourselves three feet from Sunflowers in 
less than an hour. The memorable works from the obsessive artist did not disappoint us as we got lost in the museum for a few hours. Our favorite work was Wheat Field with Crows and thought it would look good over our large sofa… we’ll have to keep our eye’s peeled to see if it ever goes on a 50% off-sale.
We snapped back into reality as we stepped back out on the beautiful streets, right into a cold wind and the lead sky of a setting sun. It was around
With the night still young, we continued to explore the city, constantly taken back by the beauty. We peered into trendy restaurants, checked out menus and vowed to come back another night when we didn’t just eat. As we strolled along the canals we looked into the windows of families celebrating the holidays. Christmas trees, presents, empty bottles of beer, turkey,
and gravy boats. It’s odd. Many people leave their window blinds open all day and night; allowing perfect views of their tidy little abodes. As we continued our walk we found a few houses in our neighborhood, the Jordaan, with houses decorated for Christmas… nothing that compares to Mel & Bev and Bob & Kathy.
There’s a lot to see in
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