Lunch in Amsterdam with AWCA

Today I went to Amsterdam and met some women from the American Women's Club of Amsterdam for lunch.  It was quite an outing!  I walked to the Haarlem train station (about a 20 minute walk from the house). And took the Sprinter train:

 to the restaurant

where we had a nice lunch of all kinds of tapas and sangria!  There were eight of us there for lunch. It was nice to meet other women from the States who can relate to being new in a different country! The women were from all over....mostly the East coast.

After lunch I walked around Utrechtsestraat and saw:

My favorite sandwich shop in the world!

Afterwards I headed to the Pijp area where I wanted to look for a pretty braided rope to hang the tapestry we bought in Bruges. I walked over to the Albert Cuyp Market:

It's like a flea market that goes on for blocks and blocks! Pretty much anything you want to buy is there,  except braided rope!

So I headed back home....I decided to walk to Amsterdam Central, which was 2.8 kilometers away. Along the way I saw:

Look closely, you can see how much these buildings have shifted!  Even the windows are crooked!

From there I got back on the train back to Haarlem. It's about an 18 minute train ride from Amsterdam Centraal to Haarlem. From the Haarlem station I walked home again.  Now it's time to prepare dinner.  Tomorrow I will be spending the day at home cleaning and doing more laundry.

My son, Kevin, just passed the halfway point of his deployment in Afghanistan! Yippee!!!