Eldon and Diane drove over and left their car in our garage for the two weeks. We met at the Morris Murdock on Bluff Street. When we got there we loaded up on a St. George Shuttle Bus. They saved us the front seat again (which is awesome!) and we drove to Las Vegas to get our 9 a.m. flight.
When we arrived at Morris, Eldon couldn't find his phone. He had handed it to Diane who, it turns out, placed it in the cup holder and forgot it in our car. He couldn't find it anywhere and so they had many days of angst as they worked to get the phone. They never did get it while they were in Europe but did end up getting it returned to their house eventually. That story is much too long to tell...but it did cause them some stress. Great stress. For many days.
We flew from Las Vegas to Detroit. Had a short layover and then flew to Amsterdam. Doesn't seem so bad, right? It took almost 24 hours to make the whole adventure! We arrived in Amsterdam at 8 a.m. on TUESDAY!!!! It felt like we lost a whole day! They are 8 hours ahead of us. We were advised to stay awake once we got there to combat jet lag. So we did!
They brought us to the Radisson Blu Hotel near the Schiphol, Netherlands airport. It was a nice hotel, HOWEVER, it was NOT close to ANYTHING AND they don't have pools at hotels there.
We decided to not let the day go to waste. Eldon and Diane didn't want to go anywhere yet but we met Michelle Hanna and Coy Langston (Father daughter duo) and they wanted to go with us. Coy is 80 years old so he was cool to have a slower pace. We paid $5 each to take the hotel shuttle bus back to the airport. Then we paid $6 each to take the train to downtown Amsterdam. Then we walked a couple of miles to the Amsterdam Palace. It was further than we thought.
We saw lots of fun things on our way to the palace. We found a cute little deli and got some yummy food. We saw duck shops (like quite a few of them, weird?!) and wine shops, and cheese shops and stuff. It seemed like we kept seeing the same several shops over and over again.
By the time we got back to the train station Andy was WORN OUT. Like I was worried I wouldn't be able to get him back home. I think he even fell asleep in the train station while waiting for the train. We decided we probably shouldn't push it that hard the next couple of days since he was just getting over sepsis again!
We got some chinese noodles at the overpriced hotel restaurant for dinner and took it to the lobby to eat. We played a couple of games at the table.
We spent a quiet evening in the hotel and were for sure ready for bed by the time it was over!
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