{"id":26744,"date":"2014-10-02T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=26744"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:37:19","slug":"amsterdam-day-2-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=26744","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Day 2 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Amsterdam Day 1 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nRight outside our hotel. Not sure why it’s there, but it’s there.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s almost lunch time when we got out the door. The plan for today is to see museums and more museums and get them all out of the way so that tomorrow, we can just lounge around with no time constraint attractions to see.<\/p>\n

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\nA Tahoe. I actually saw a few other American cars here in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

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\nStarving, looking for some lunch…but it was not meant to be. The only really possible candidate was an “Irish Pub”…which felt wrong because we are heading to Ireland in a couple of days.<\/p>\n

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\nOur first museum, Rijksmuseum.<\/p>\n

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\nLooking for the museum cafe, found.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s been a long time since we’ve done a Portrait Series.<\/p>\n

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\nTo our surprised, the menu at the museum cafe has no warm, filling dishes. They are more like appetizers and also expensive. Well, we are here, gotta bite the bullet.<\/p>\n

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\nDutch cheese and meat plate. It actually was pretty good, and it photographed so beautifully!<\/p>\n

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\nOK, lots to see today. No lingers here at the cafe, let’s go!<\/p>\n

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\nThe line to the tickets, but it was swift moving.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a giant museum with confusing layout. We spent a lot of time looking at our floor map trying to figure out where we are at.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>RL told me that it was the fashion in these days for women to have high hairlines and that many women would actually pluck or shave their forehead.\u00a0 RL also really likes the 1300-1500s paintings the best.<\/p>\n

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\nHoly shit. It took me a while to realize that he was stabbing her in the neck…and that she was being burned.\u00a0 At first it just looks like a serine praying lady(with a very big forehead).<\/p>\n

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\nIs that dog gnawing on a human bone? I miss my dog.<\/p>\n

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\nSame biblical scene, different artists.<\/p>\n

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\nI love food photos, and it’s no different when I am at a museum.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Baby Jesus says, “Give me five!”<\/p>\n

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\nShip models!!!!<\/p>\n

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\nSubmarine.<\/p>\n

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\nI loved the painstaking details on these things. It’s incredible how sailors were able to actually work all those different ropes. How the hell do they know how everything works and what rope works in conjunction with what?<\/p>\n

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\nNot sure what’s going on here…ok she’s touching herself.<\/p>\n

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\nThis one is even more strange.<\/p>\n

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\nCeiling in one of the rooms.<\/p>\n

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\nOdd shaped cabinet. I kind of like it though, too bad the photo came out blurry.<\/p>\n

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\nRL calls me monkey.<\/p>\n

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\nCool, mechanical solar system.<\/p>\n

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\nAll the gears underneath.<\/p>\n

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\nSince the layout of this museum is confusing, we had to come back to the atrium and go through the ticket check again and again. At our last go around, the ticket check lady even remembered us from earlier.<\/p>\n

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\nHey, a Van Gogh.<\/p>\n

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\nLook at that loyal dog…unlike mine.<\/p>\n

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\nThis thing was huge.<\/p>\n

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\nReached the top floor of the museum. Overwhelmed by all the pieces in here.<\/p>\n

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\nOh no, came out blurry.<\/p>\n

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\nFather and his fat son.<\/p>\n

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\nThis was really awesome.<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s not a carving, but a painting made to look like a carving. Incredible.<\/p>\n

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\nProbably the most famous painting in this museum, Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. It’s a lot bigger than I had imagined.<\/p>\n

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\nHerod orders baby boys to be killed…but why are all the soldiers depicted as being completely naked? Let’s go kill some babies…but let’s get naked and weird first.<\/p>\n

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\nLot being seduced by his daughters…<\/p>\n

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\nI like this.<\/p>\n

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\nLobster!!! I want some!!!<\/p>\n

To be continued at Amsterdam Day 2 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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