Tulips and Beer
AMSTERDAM BEFORE THE CRUISE We stayed at the Leonardo Museum hotel, across a side street from Rijks Museum. According to our travel agent, Cookie, we had a “Cozy Room”. We laughed and said we wouldn't worry about falling because there was nowhere to fall! We got in, tired and hungry. The hotel had a restaurant, but they were on break, so we ended up at an Irish pub (in the Netherlands!). It had a stained glass window of St. Prosper and I texted my Catholic friend to see if there really was a Saint Prosper (there is!) After a good night's rest, we spent most of the day on a hop-on-hop-off-bus/boat. We quickly figured out the boat was the best, as it was basically a canal cruise with stops. The city is beautiful and they have killer bikes that own the red sidewalks. My job became keeping Dave "out of the red"!! We had thought about renting bikes or using the ones on the boat but figured out quickly we would not keep up and would be an accident waiting to happen. Th