Arrived in Amsterdam Hotel Estherea

We arrived in Amsterdam after a very long 10 1/2 hour flight from San Francisco. Mom and Petrea were able to get a bit more sleep than I.

I contacted our driver. We met him in the huge welcome hall. He loaded our luggage on a cart, and after a short walk, we were whisked away to our hotel.

We were so thankful that our room was ready early. After freshening up, we headed out to explore.

We found a cute sidewalk café to have a late lunch/early dinner during intermittent rain showers.

We ducked into a church to get out of the rain.

We headed back to the hotel to grab our raincoats and a cane for mom.

Since the Timeshifter app indicated that we needed to stay up until 9 PM, we went to investigate the distance to the Central Train station.

We determined that the train station was too far from the hotel for mom and Petrea to haul the luggage on the 30th while I head to the airport to pick up Natalie.

Back at the hotel, we put our feet up, organized a driver for the next couple of days, and tried our best not to fall asleep.

We tapped out at about 8 PM.Read more