Amsterdam

Well, Micah and I have both tried to post these pictures many times this week but things always seem to go wrong. But here are some pictures of our recent trip to Amsterdam. I still can't get over how pretty it was there. I am already thinking about the next time we will get to visit. We were only there for two days so we didn't get to do too much. We did have a chance to see the Anne Frank House which was quite sobering. We only took one picture because they asked us not to take pictures inside. So here is Micah standing outside. What makes this city so pretty is all the canals, much like this one. Amsterdam is made up of a bunch of these.

We saw many beautiful buildings, much like this restaurant we ate dinner at our first night.

This is the oldest church in Amsterdam. In the heart of the Red Light District, no less.
Here is a picture we took of ourselves our day of sightseeing.
We rented bikes the second day we were there. Absolutely EVERYONE rides bikes there. We had so much fun!!! Except when Micah cut off an elderly woman on her bicycle, and she yelled at him and called him a "Duma." He tells me that is Dutch for "handsome." We rode all over the city all day long.
My wheels aren't glowing, they are reflecting from the camera flash. By the way, I had the prettiest bicycle from the store. -Micah

Another funny thing is that they had urinals randomly on street corners. So Micah obviously had to try it out. Too bad for him he used it after A LOT of people already had. Once he was done sanitation came to spray it out.

Here we are at the Heineken brewery and museum. Some people think it looks like we are standing behind one of those sets with holes for our faces, but that's actually just us.

This is actually a person, not a statue. I call him King Neptune. He wouldn't let me take his picture until I put money in his little container. Being Dutch, I gave him a 10-cent piece and figured that would be enough.

New Address

It has been brought to my attention that not a lot of people know our new address over here and have been inquiring about it. So if any of you are wanting to mail us stuff here you go:
Micah and Jennie Vander Veen (obviously)
PSC 37 Box 3852
APO, AE 09459
Since it is an APO box we pick up all our mail on base. It will take just one stamp to send us something, just like if we were in the states.

Looking forward to the weekend

I am so thankful that Thursday is just about over because I am excited for the week to come to an end. This has been a good week, don't get me wrong. It even went at just the right pace, not too fast and not too slow. I am just ready to spend some quality time with Micah. We actually have a pretty good weekend planned. On Saturday we are going to work on the house a bit. Our totally awesome landlords are going to bring us a bed while we are gone the next few months. I know that maybe doesn't make sense. You see, we have a queen bed for our guest room but queen beds don't fit up the stairs. Oddly, king beds do and our landlords have an extra king. They told us we could use it if we wanted and they even told us that they would bring it in and set it up while we are gone. How awesome is that! So we have to get the guest room all ready for them to come because before we know it we are going to be leaving for a while. So after we get the room in order we are going to go to Cambridge and go ice skating. I am really looking forward to that because I have never been ice skating outside before. So that is our Saturday. Sunday we are going to Amsterdam for a few days. Micah has to go there for work and I get to go with him. It is going to be great. Well we are watching "Kung Fu Panda" tonight so I should get back to it.

Here are some pictures from our big night on Saturday. We had such a nice time at The Sound of Music. London was beautiful in full Christmas spirit. The train we took brought us right to the theater so we had a little time to look around when we got there. We did a little shopping and then we went for dinner. We had AMAZING seats for the show. We were in row F the first two seats in from the isle. That is 6 rows from the front. We had a great view. As some of you may know, I love The Sound of Music! But the stage production is a little different than the movie. They sang all the songs from the movie and then some. It was so great. Here are a few pictures we took that night.