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Thursday, May 04, 2006




We became tour guides and took our friend to visit the Rembrandt House for her first visit. They had over 50 of his artworks displayed at the home he lived in in Amsterdam. We walked all around Amsterdam again today seeing areas not seen before. We saw the statue of Rembrandt in Rembrandtplein. In front of his statue are other statues from his painting “The Nightwatch”. Thus, a 3d painting is on display in the park. We met Henk for a drink at a small pub on the Leidseplein. We had dinner at Roses Cantina and introduced our friends to Mexican food. During dinner, they had 3 minutes of silence as today is the national Remembrance Day for the liberation from WWII. We went to Dam square where the war memorial is and saw the wreaths placed by the Queen today. People were lined up to place flowers in front of the memorial. It was very moving to see so many people lined up. Truus’s father was in the war and Henk’s father escaped from a German POW camp, walked from Germany to Holland and hid in a basement for 2 years until the end of the war.

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