Last day in Amsterdam

Our flight on our last day in Amsterdam didn't leave until 9: 30, so we had the entire day to work with. We started by heading over to the Tropenhouse, an ethnographic museum that was initially opened to sensitize the public to Holland's colonization endeavors. It was a fabulous museum and really targeted towards kids.

Then we visited the Amsterdam Museum. It was a little less interesting for the kids, but at least there was a giant.

Then we headed home. These last pictures are from a our picnic in Morges when we got home.

NEMO Science Center

Breakfast

Eva playing hide-and-seek

Eva and Jonas wrestling

After a fairly slow morning we headed over to the NEMO Science Center. Jaxon was especially excited. He is pretty science obsessed right now.

After the Science Center we headed over to chill for the rest of the afternoon at Vondelpark. Jonas eating his mystery ice cream.

Enjoying an outdoor lunch. I loved how they cooked the bacon strips directly in the pancakes here.

After the park we found a little Italian restaurant. Eva had her first taste of sparkling water.

She gave us some funny looks, but she kept on going back for more!

Historic triangle

Maybe this captures the stairs...

The next day we headed out on our Historic Triangle adventure.

It involved leaving from Hoorn on a 1.5 hour steam train trek

We stopped at an old, once-functional train stop.

The kids were able to try some old-time toys out.

On the train we ordered some of the delicious poffertjes, Dutch mini-pancakes

Hanging out on the back of the train

The even brought Easter eggs around for the kids to decorate.

We stopped in Medemblik for lunch.

Next we hopped aboard the steamer to Enkhuizen. The entire voyage was a great was to see the Dutch country side with its patchwork fields and the dikes holding the Netherlands in.

At Enkhuizen we visited the Zuidersee open-air museum. Have a mentioned that I am a nut for open-air museum? Well, it so happens I am.

Jaxon painted a clog and Jonas a boat

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Daniel going for the top of the gigantic Styrofoam egg covered by chocolate. They had finally taken the chisels and hammers away from the ravenous children, so Daniel felt comfortable getting in there.

On the train ride back to Amsterdam we ditched the kids a few feet down so we could avoid their topics of conversation. I group of a few guys ended up sitting across the aisle from them. These guys seemed much more impressed by the boys' armpit tooting sounds and caca talk than we ever are, so Jaxon and Jonas were thoroughly occupied. It led to a fairly relaxing trip back for the rest of us. 

Eva was happy to get back to the hotel and explore in the evening, as always. She sure loves where crawling can take her.