Day 12 - Amsterdam Netherlands

Today was one of the best days so far. We awoke and went into a nearby town where we watched a husband/wife team make wooden shoes and Dutch Gouda Cheese. Seems like quite a combination, but it works for them. The shoes were beautiful and the cheese was excellent. I bought 3 types which they vacuumed sealed for transport into the USA. The most unique thing about the husband/wife team was that he is from the Netherlands and the wife is from the USA. She loves having the American People to People groups come in.

Next we drove into Amsterdam and walked to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Afterwards, we had a long walk to the river boat harbor. We took a canal cruise, which ended up leaving late. We were going to miss our reservation time at the Ann Frank's House, but our delegation manager talked our canal cruise captain into dropping us off at her doorstep.

We had a gentleman (Huib) talk to us about Ann Frank and her family/life/home. It was very enlightening and educational. Then we got to walk through her "house". It's amazing that she was able to deal with the things she went through.

Now the kids are outside in a grassy area in front of the hotel playing soccer and throwing frisbees. They all agree that it was a GREAT day!!!