Team Edward.

I was just reminded by Rebekah of My Mouse and Me of a much better movie for Washington that First Blood. Hello, Twilight!!!

The United States of Movies.

Found here

This is kind of fun. I think that there are plenty of better choices for Texas, though. Hello, Fandango?! Urban Cowboy, anyone? Or The Alamo? Oh well. The rest of them seem pretty right on. I totally agree with Napolean Dynamite for Idaho.

Germany.

The red car is ours and Mike had to press a button to bring it down so that we could leave the hotel.
Munster.
The market. Look at the leaves!

Me admiring the pumpkins.

Bremen's Town Hall

The cathedral.

Bremen during the day.

An Art Deco conference room in a hotel.

I am the worst blogger ever! So, catching up with our trip. We left Amsterdam Wednesday morning and took a train to Dusseldorf, Germany to pick up our rental car. Then, we drove to Munster which had the best market ever. There were fresh meat vendors and flowers and fruits and vegetables. and the best pumpkins and gourds. Everything was beautiful. We ate at a food stand there (yum) and walked around the square. Then, we got back in the car and headed to Bremen. Bremen is an great town and the jewel of the Hanseatic League (we spent alot of time this trip in Hanseatic cities, so now we are experts). Anyway, it is pretty amazing because they became a power player in the 1200s and were in charge of ports as far away as Bergen, Norway (more on Bergen later). The old town is beautiful and there is one street called the Boettcherstrasse that was incredible! Brick buildings with quirky details like aquariums and art niches. Very cool and art nouveau. Bremen is famous for its Three Musicians tale and its statue of a donkey, dog, cat and rooster. It just occured to me that there are four animals, not three. Hmm. I should look into that. Next stop, Luebeck Germany.

Oh, the places we will go - Amsterdam

Mike's favorite beans

View from the hotel (Yes, we stayed at Best Western)

Dutch Windmill

Bicycle parking in Haarlem

'American Style Hotdogs'

Tulips!

We are back from two weeks in Europe! Actually, we got back on Sunday so I am a little behind. I thought that I would just start at the beginning of our trip and show you some pictures. So here goes. Starting with Amsterdam...

Amsterdam is very crowded. The streets are crowded, the museums are crowded. But, Holland is pretty. We took a train to Haarlem the second day there and it is a great town. Pretty square with a huge church and lots of neat old buildings. We also took a tour of a reconstructed windmill. Oh, and there seems to be a least two bicycles for every person in the Netherlands. So many bicycles! We only saw two people fall over though, so it seems to be working. We went to the Van Gogh museum (awesome except for the people) and I went to Anne Frank's house. I reread her diary on the way there and all I can say is, wow. You can actually go up the stairs and behind the bookcase into their apartment and walk through it. It is so moving and they have her actual diary on display! Amazing. I'm glad that I read it beforehand. No pictures there, but I did buy a book about the museum. We also took a boat tour through the canals as part of the conference. There are so many houseboats on the canals! What would it be like to live on a houseboat in a canal in Amsterdam?