08/01/24 Anne Frank Tour

Thursday, August 1, 2024 - our last day in the hotel!!! On our way to the River Cruise!

But first, we enjoyed the delicious breakfast in the hotel again before heading to the Anne Frank House. It was 4 levels of skinny stairs to go up to Anne Frank's portion of the home. It was sobering to think of the family having to be up there in complete silence with little food and no entertainment for so long. It was really a good reminder of how blessed we are and I hope our country never goes through what they went through.

We walked quite a bit before and after the tour and enjoyed seeing Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is an interesting town. There are canals everywhere. Some people even live on house boats. Some seem nice, others quite small and not nice.

Everyone rides bikes. They said there are 1.8 million bikes in Amsterdam. That's twice as many bikes as people!

The bikes have the right of way and people really zip around on their bikes. The little tiny cars are allowed to be driven by people 16 or older without a driver license and they are allowed to park them on the sidewalks or wherever they can find a place.

The streets were very narrow. It was amazing to me that they didn't have accidents all over the place as people were seemingly everywhere - on foot, bike and in vehicles - and they all seemed to move at a pretty good pace!

Eventhough we arrived at the boat today - and they fed us two awesome meals - the boat just remained there in the port over night and we continued to explore Amsterdam Friday morning as well.

Funny sign - someone put some dudes
face on it!

Outside the Anne Frank house

Walking all over Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Front door of Anne Frank's house

Katie Johnson, Grandma Carol & Jenny Wayman

One of the many canals
in Amsterdam

Fancy lunch upon arrival
at the ship

Our room

Our bathroom

Angle 2 of our bathroom

Around the boat

Larry Gelwix talking about our cruise

Our group

Diane and Eldon

Our food was not always something we could identify...but mostly it was tasty and it was super fun to try all kinds of interesting and fun new dishes! And they were always BEAUTIFUL!

Jerry Sorenson

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