owen meets van gogh

We seem to be falling behind on our posts, so I'll do one from Saturday now.. and we'll try and play catch-up this week -- as we took lots of pictures, and we still have pictures from Brugge to post.. But Saturday we took a quick trip into Amsterdam. After leaving the car at the airport, it was a quick train ride into Amsterdam Central station... but for Owen it was a once-in-a-lifetime ride on the choo-choo. He was pretty mellow on the way out, but couldn't stop talking on the way back -- just very excited to be on the train.


We walked from the train station, past all the frat boys and tourists, to the museum area. We went to the Van Gogh museum, which was amazing, and fun for the whole family. We got there at the start of an exhibit on Van Gogh/Expressionism. Afterwards, we explored the park area behind the museum and thankfully enjoyed the good weather.. although it was a bit windy. Check out the new slogan (Rijksmuseum in the background):