Learned something else new about Amsterdam today!!! At home, if you want to deadbolt your door you have a little knob to turn inside & voila! There you go!!! Here in Amsterdam, you have a key on the inside of your door that you deadbolt it with. Well, we've had no problems thus far with this system...until this morning! We walked out & Ed turned around to deadbolt the door from the outside...like usual. Well, the key won't turn at all!!! Which means we cannot get back into our apartment!!! So, Ed doesn't have his phone...it's inside the apartment. I have mine but the only phone number I have is Ed's! So we walk down to the corner smoke shop & visit one of our first friends "John" who owns the shop. (We've met once & introduced ourselves to him last week). He & his shopkeeper call a locksmith for us & he's at the apartment within 15 minutes!
(waiting for the locksmith)
Well, a little "secret tools" & 70 euro later & BOB'S YOUR UNCLE...WE'RE IN!!! Whew! I thought I was going to have to sleep outside...it's chilly in Amsterdam this time of year!!
We spent the rest of the day strolling the streets of Amsterdam in the beautiful sunshine...VERY unusual for this time of year!! Beautiful day from what started out to be disastrous! Here's a little bit of our day & how we enjoyed it!!
Rembrandthuis Museum (the home is on the right) Rembrandt was bankrupt & his home & all possessions were sold to pay his bills. So sad for such a genius!
Coffeeshops have things other than coffee...if you know what I mean!
NEMO...fun filled science museum for the kids
Beautiful houses...not all perfectly straight!
Especially this one!!
I love that "reefer" is right on the building. no shame in amsterdam. :)
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