Today has been wet and cold - a good souvenir opportunity (a sweatshirt type jacket from Amsterdam and umbrellas with scenes of the area). The sun comes out but then quickly disappears behind the clouds that open up and cover us with a cold, wet rain.
We toured the Rijksmuseum where paintings of the Dutch Masters (no photos allowed) as well as beautiful Delft pottery are displayed. Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" as well as many of his other paintings are here.
We toured the Van Gogh museum, which had a Renoir, on loan from the London Art Gallery. Art critics that we are, we decided that Van Gogh is not our "artist of choice", but it was wonderful to actually be in an art gallery viewing works of artists of which we had only read about.
We visited the Diamond Museum and Store (diamonds on sale for $50,000+).
The clerk offered to show a $15,000 diamond to me (assuming that I could purchase). I commented "my husband would have a heart attack" - her response was "But, you would have the diamond!"
We made sister Ginny very happy this afternoon when we toured the Anne Frank Huis (house) in Amsterdam. How depressing to climb the narrow, steep stairs into the small rooms where she and her family lived, in hiding, for two years.
English is spoken here but most people speak Dutch - which sounds as if they are trying to clear the phlegm from their throats!
We have met many people from the U.S. but we were very happy to finally hear another southern voice today, when we met up with folks from Memphis and Kentucky. How wonderful to finally hear someone say "Where are ya'll from?"
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