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08/02/24 Amsterdam Canal Cruise

We took a scenic canal cruise through Amsterdam - they call it the Venice of the North. Amsterdam has a unique canal system that offers the best vantage point to view the city and it's famous sights. Amsterdam has 1500 bridges and 165 canals. After a run 1 hour cruise through the canals our boat departed out of Amsterdam. 

We were really enjoying getting to know some of our friends from the cruise. Carmen and Ralph Lee were fun to talk to. Carmen is from Chile and has a thick accent and is very loud and bubbly and funny. 

Ralph was fun as well although a little less wild than his wife! haha. 

He had a scary story to tell about how he was attacked in 2018 in his dry cleaning shop. He was pummeled with a baseball bat and beaten until he was practically dead (he did flat line for a little while). They were able to revive him and after months/years of work he still suffers hearing loss and other side effects but he is functioning and still working at his cleaner shop in St George.  




Delicious breakfast buffet

The pool was on the roof of the boat







So many bikes everywhere



Going through a channel. 

You could literally reach out and touch the walls. 
We went through 10 channels during
the course of our trip. 


























One of the many forms of 
entertainment of a local





Our guide











Ralph and Carmen Lee







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