Autumn

It is definitely autumn in Amsterdam. (Actually today feels a little like Christmas; the temperature didn't get out of the 50s all day.) Most of last week was cool, but not cold enough for coats, sunny, and filled with colors of the season since the leaves are all changing and starting to fall. Even when the sky started turning mostly cloudy the last few days, it was still very autumn-like since about this time is when Amsterdam begins being perpetually cloudy and rainy. Erin took advantage of the beautiful weather last Monday to go take pictures of canal houses downtown. We are in search of the perfect picture to enlarge and frame...especially after seeing the prices for painted artwork of the same images! Our own photography is much more affordable, if a bit less artistic.

Saturday we rode our bikes into the Centrum to visit a canal house museum, the Willet Holthuysen Museum, showcasing life, art, and furnishings of a wealthy Amsterdam family in the 19th century. We have these museum cards that are good for a year and let us into most museums in the country for free. Ours expire January 2, so we're trying to squeeze in all the museums we can before then. We figure it won't be worth it to buy another pass for the remaining few months we'll be here.

We wish there was a really interesting or funny story to tell in this blog, but there's just not. We both did some work this weekend and slept a lot. Sometimes life is just not interesting or funny. And that's OK. Sometimes we need some plain old days consisting of nothing that makes a good story. It's kind of a relief.