On to Amsterdam after a brief stop in Brussels. Watched some ladies make lace in a small shop. We got ino Amsterdam on a rainy evening and went straight to the reserved lodging, went to bed. A beautiful bedroom in a private home. Lucy had made the arrangements. It was at the front of the house with a big bay window. I was up first in the morning and looked out the window. I called Lucy and said, "It must have rained a lot last night, the streets are full of water." She started laughing, "Belle, those are the canals." We were served a grand breakfast, meats, cheese,eggs, toast, sweet rolls, juice, milk and tea. We went on the boat ride around the harbor where there were some of the old ships from days gone by, the big sailing ships. We visited the museum and saw great paintings and collections of jeweld snuff boxes, china and other things such as doll houses. A huge display of DELFT china. Back home to Munich and the OCTOBERFEST. Quite a bunch of happy people, eating, drinking, dancing . The tents were packed with all kinds of people in their native dress . Many musicians wandering through the crowds A fun time for all. Belle

Belle, your trip sounds great. Would love to watch someone making lace. Kay In a message dated 01/12/10 10:37:10 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: On to Amsterdam after a brief stop in Brussels. Watched some ladies make lace in a small shop. We got ino Amsterdam on a rainy evening and went straight to the reserved lodging, went to bed. A beautiful bedroom in a private home. Lucy had made the arrangements. It was at the front of the house with a big bay window. I was up first in the morning and looked out the window. I called Lucy and said, "It must have rained a lot last night, the streets are full of water." She started laughing, "Belle, those are the canals." We were served a grand breakfast, meats, cheese,eggs, toast, sweet rolls, juice, milk and tea. We went on the boat ride around the harbor where there were some of the old ships from days gone by, the big sailing ships. We visited the museum and saw great paintings and collections of jeweld snuff boxes, china and other things such as doll houses. A huge display of DELFT china. Back home to Munich and the OCTOBERFEST. Quite a bunch of happy people, eating, drinking, dancing . The tents were packed with all kinds of people in their native dress . Many musicians wandering through the crowds A fun time for all. Belle ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

At one school we went to in Ukraine, about 4 girls were in native dress (very colorful) and they presented us with the traditional bread that had a salt dish in the middle of it, and seems like some other food. They explained what it represented. Emma > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:55:06 -0800 > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Travels.. > > Back home to Munich and the OCTOBERFEST. Quite a bunch of happy people, eating, drinking, dancing . The tents were packed with all kinds of people in their native dress . Many musicians wandering through the crowds A fun time for all. > > Belle > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/