1 -3Photos of us on the boat tour, there was a reproduction of a war ship that explored America
My back hurt when I woke up after a bad nights sleep on the floor.
When I finally managed it, I went to eat some breakfast after putting my bedding away. When we finally got out of the house at 11 o'clock, my parents were not in the best of moods, but we started walking to the Van Gogh museum of art. My dad really likes Van Gogh, so he was happy to go. I thought that they were better then most paintings but I would rather be in a history museum then an art one. With our family's navigational know how, we got to the museum quickly. We used the iPhone to tell us which way to go. When we got to the museum we had a long line, as usual and started waiting.
The first thing we did was watch a movie on how Van Gogh lived. I thought that it was amazing that he painted 900 paintings in just 5 years before killing himself. My favorite painting was one of a landscape that had just been through a forest fire. The fire looked really cool in the distance. His paintings are made with lots of little strokes of pure color. When you look at it from afar, you can not see the individual stroke but up close you can see the individual colors. It is amazing how many paintings that this museum has. There were 4 floors with different paintings. We went through all the floors. When we finished, we needed a snack to get some more energy. Going to museums is hard work. I felt like I was about to go to sleep after a long days work. When we finally exited the museum, we started our walk to Ann Franks house.
On the way to Anne Franks house, we took a boat tour around the canals of Amsterdam. There was a lot of cool buildings like a 1 yard wide house. Most of the houses have hooks, so you could store all your stuff in the attic when it floods. There are over 1000 bridges, stone arcing ones, suspension, and drawbridges. Since the streets are so narrow, most of the people use bicycles to get around. When you are walking, you have to watch out because they are pretty crazy bikers. My favorite part of the tour was the house boats. There are over 1000 of them around the city and they are all different shapes and sizes. I saw one that had sunk. Most of the boats have some sort of garden on top. My mom really liked them. I thought that Amsterdam is really cool.
When we finally got to Anne Franks house, we had to wait in line yet again. While we were waiting, my dad told us about the historical significance of the house. It was pretty crazy staying in a few rooms for years and not be able to make a noise for fear of getting shot. If my dad and I were in that position, we wouldn't last a week. When got into the house, it was pretty bare. I every room there was a photo of what the room looked like. I suppose that they didn't finish it because people wouldn't be able to move through. The place that I really wanted to see was the annex hidden behind a revolving book shelf that was where they hid.
The annex looked pretty normal, the problem was that there was a traffic jam. The stairs were very narrow and uneven, so when people ascended they went really slow. After seeing all the rooms we got to the museum part. They had the original diary and a bunch of short stories and novels that Ann wrote. Se had planned to write a whole novel, if she had lived. What was really sad was that if she could have survived for one more week, then she would have survived. But someone turned her in. She died with her sister after being separated from her mom and dad. Her mom died as well. When the father Atto Frank came back to investigate, he found and published the diary and most everything that she had wrote. What was really sad is that one more week and she would have survived. I thought that she was just one person, imagine how many people there were in that exact same situation but didn't get to write. After that mind changing experience we were done for the day touring Amsterdam, we walked home which was very long, got groceries, and saw people smoking joints at a coffee shop, not a cafe. It was a great day out and tomorrow we will go and see some dams and wind mills.
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