Thursday, April 25: 1st Full Day in Amsterdam

I woke up this morning after sleeping like a baby which I really needed after yesterday. That bed has a nice firm mattress and I was lucky to Bob computer control center lights went off and I was able to sleep. I got up at 8 AM or 8:15 AM so I could get ready to eat breakfast take a shower and go to the Anne Frank house they schedule my appointment. My appointment was scheduled for 10 AM, it’s about 12 minute walk from Bob to the Anne Frank house. It’s very convenient for sure On the way there, i’m at two nice women from Richmond, Virginia. Google maps had me very confused which turn I take and I just followed them to the place. I got there on time and I hung out with them while in the museum and oh my God that is the detail is kind of hard to fathom.is the original place where she had for two years with her family and friends and they had all the diaries and short stories that she wrote and the experiences while she was hiding. It’s really hard to fathom. You just have to go there. Anyhow, I got back in. Bob had to take care of some business so I caught up with my blogging. Specifically yesterday‘s blog posting. I then talked to Larry and also talked to Mary by voice and by video WhatsApp works. And I took a walk and he got an extra key from one of his friends so I have a copy of the key in the house which God forbid if I lose would cost €100, don’t plan to do that. We’re gonna go buy three museums today. 

Wednesday, April 24: Stockholm, to Amsterdam

I arrived at Stockholm and the process was pretty smooth. I 
got through customs and border security pretty smoothly. It’s now 7:30 PM for some reason my phone has not converted automatically to their time which is six 
hours ahead so my plane starts boarding in 10 minutes, but I was able to find, a water station and also a plug-in station where I could 
plug in 
my USB right into the wall, which is pretty convenient because they don’t have them in the airport the United States that I know of. Well, that connecting flight I was pretty miserable. The 

guy in front of me acted like an entitled boomer in the worst variety

 kept banging the chair took up all the space in there luggage area and I just hit 

a wall where I was just I felt like the cabin pressure was high, but 

I was holding on… Anyway, once I landed, I thought I could just walk out somewhere

 catch the train but no, I just kept walking and walking and walking

 and walking out how to get the Sim to work. I know it now works. I can get 

the Internet, Facebook and Google Maps but no texting or phone 

calls so oh well , I finally found a place to get coffee next to the Starbucks. I was going to

 go to Starbucks but I decided to go to a place it’s local so I’m 

waiting for Bob who said he could pick me up 11:07 AM Amsterdam time. Well, Bob found out there was 5 Starbucks at the airport so he found me and we talked a little bit and then we walked

 a little bit more to the train which took us to a nice part of the town and then we took a ferry ride, which is really nice 

Next he took me to  
the Amsterdam museum and showed 

me around town. We saw this huge old shipyard which is now on Arness colony 

and they have these things that are literally called pisswarres. 

I could literally piss outside its clothes but you just piss on the sidewalk. It’s just one of the weirdest things I ever experienced.



  It was really weird. I mean I did it, but I could look through little holes and look at people as on pissing which is blowing let’s put it that way. Anyway, I was tired

, but I persevered and had a little coffee to help me. I was running on adrenaline.Anyhow , one thing I noticed is that the there are bikes everywhere and 

yes I heard about that everyone has but they are really aggressive and you have to keep your eyes open. You’ll get run over by bikes. I gotta be really careful

 not stare at my phone. Anyhow, the weather is really 

changeable. It goes one minute. It’s got sunshine. Next minute starts to rain. We even 

had hail for a little while , but then it stops so it’s not torrential rain. 

It’s just periodic off it on again. This is the only place I’ve seen where it looks really 

it. we also went to the recently opened holocaust museum here in 

Amsterdam. It’s very powerful and it’s minimalism and the spells a word in 

Hebrew the way it’s designed. Each little brick is an even of 

person who is killed by the Nazis in Amsterdam by itself it’s a lot of people

 holy shit. It’s a lot of people, speaking of which Lisa got me a ticket 



today and Frank. From what I’m told it’s hard to get there so I’m going there tomorrow at 10 AM.   
I have a museum card that I paid for the Bob got me so it’s a really useful thing to have here in Amsterdam and it will also be a wonderfulsouvenir
 when I get back. I’m still also get a Transit card but hasn’t arrived in the mail yet. Bob broke them back and asked if it was on its way so it’s all cool. You just use a credit card to get on the trains.

Tuesday, April 23: Heading to Stockholm and Amsterdam

This morning, I got a little up a little early and Pat was still in my place 

snoozing on the futon. And I helped him finish his state taxes, not on some energy bars and did some last-minute packing stuff and got my laundry out of the dryer. I didn’t fold it. I just threw it on 

the bed because time caught up to me. Well, I called the train which came on time and I got the new Work with no difficulties. I am found my terminal 

and called AT&T and they remove the block on my Sim card and I did the eSIM but can’t really activate it till I land and I have to turn off roaming 

and do some technical stuff so I don’t get super huge roaming charges. Then I decided to eat at Mexican restaurant place, I charged my phone. It’s 1:21 PM Eastern time so I guess about an hour 
and a half. I’m 

   going to the terminal and see if my TSA pre-came through. I think my eSIM is working because I have to turn it off until I land. It’s now


4:34 PM. It’s almost time to start boarding which is at around 4:40 PM. People already standing up to get ready to leave this flight. Looks like it’s pretty packed. They’re announcing a lot of names for document 

identification. Anyhow, I charged up my phone I ate a delicious burrito nice fat burrito so I shouldn’t really need to eat much 

of anything on this flight. I’m hoping I can get myself nice and tired. I put some electrolyte into my yoga and I’m drinking


 some of that while waiting for boarding process to start. I talked to a couple people on the phone, and I’m finally ready to get going. I attempted


to enroll in the Wi-Fi at this airline, but it just never got stable and I could never sign on to pay for it. So right now this is an off-line version. I had a really nice dinner considering it’s an airport 

and plus occupied adjust things and get comfortable, etc. It’s now 747 Eastern 

time. The phone is still stuck in Eastern standard time because I have no reception 

at this point. I’m hoping now after I watch this movie Argo, I can get the sleep I’m trying bit of this coffee, but I don’t have enough cream so I’m probably gonna Drink it. It’s now 1145 Eastern time and 3 AM Norway time actually it’s 5:43 AM Norwegian time. I finally got some Wi-Fi up but it’s only for the last hour of flight because I couldn’t get it to connect.