Anniversary and more

Well, it's been a while already again since my last post. But that doesn't matter! This is a whole new one, with pictures! :)


First of all last Thursday Dan and I have been together for four years already! Four years.. Doesn't seem that long at all really.. But well, we decided to have a little day out together as there was still a couple of things we wanted to do here in Amsterdam. One of them being a canal cruise through the centre of the city. Another was to actually visit the palace at the Dam, but sadly that was closed until later in October, so we'll be coming back for that later in the month most likely :) The canal cruise was awesome. It was fantastic weather, if anything a bit too hot, but well, on the water that's not too bad. Took a couple of pictures too, which I'll litter around this little post :) First the one to the side is when we took of with the boat, just a couple of cool looking houses with a seagull sitting on a pole in front of the brown house.

The pictures above and below are a clock tower called 'Malle Jaap' or translated to 'Crazy Jack' by the very British sounding taped tour guide. It got the name due to the fact that for years it was unable to keep the time. Also you can see that the base looks different then the top. This is because the tower was first lower and only hundreds of years later the top was put on.

To the left is a picture of the smallest house of Amsterdam. It's just about a metre wide. If you look at the doorway, it just about fits the door and that's it. For you who aren't sure which one on the picture it is: yes, it really is that small green and white house that's already much much lower then the rest of the houses.


The next picture is one of a couple of very traditional looking houses on the 'Herengracht' (Gentlemen's Canal as translated by the guide). I thought they were looking all pretty and renovated there together with the three of them :P
  

Then the tour took us through the old harbour and behind the Central Station, that's the train, bus, tram and metro station for the city. It's one of the biggest stations in the country if not the biggest. Also, you can see a 'small' bike storage stand too. 

After that the boat turned back into the town centre and we got off again. All in all it was quite a nice hour of seeing and hearing stuff about Amsterdam :)


But before we went on the boat trip we went shopping as well. And we bought, among other stuff, some leather Magic the Gathering deck boxes. As seen on the picture below :) It's even got a magnet in it's flappy top :)

On a completely different note, Rachel told us last week about this awesome small washer thingy. So I went to look for it on the interwebs and it turns out they are available in the Netherlands too :) So I got us one. Which means I've now been writing this blog while waiting for the washing to be done! I can do washing at home!! :D To the left is a picture of it in it's first use :)