Day 9

Well, we went t0 two museums today. The first was the Rijks museum, a museum with 17th-18th (approx) century art. Mainly paintings, silver... stuff, and pottery. The paintings were realist, spanning over many genres such as still life and portriats, but many of them were portrayals of Dutch life during that period. They were pretty nice paintings, but I personally find cartoons and modern art more exciting. The pottery was also pretty nice, they had these weird planters that were tall and shaped like pagodas. The silver stuff was mostly just overly complicated pots, I didn't find those interesting. We left and went to the Van Gogh museum, which had many of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings (Which I didn't find too exciting) but there was also abstract paintings by another guy called Max Beckmann which I found very interesting. However, my favourite part was the cartoons by Jan Kruis, who is a really great cartoonist. I think I'm way more interested in cartoons than I am in paintings... they seem more active and lively to me.

We left the Van Gogh museum to go to a very large street market. We got these really good fries for lunch, and did some browsing. (A little more than I would have liked to) We later headed to a t-shirt shop so I could pick up a new shirt. It's super awesome.

We later went down to hang out outside and have dinner. And Barbara came back. (Did I mention earlier that she left?) So we hung around the bridge outside the apartment.

Tomorrow I'm going to Paris. There probably won't be a computer there so I'll take notes in a notebook and write blog entries when I get home.