Click Photo For Enlargement (1090 Kb)   To start our Amsterdam photo ablum, here's the house we are renting for our stay.

Coming back from our first foray to a Dutch supermarket.   Click Photo For Enlargement (678 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (621 Kb)   This is a view right outside our apartment.

Of course the reason many come to Amsterdam, the corner coffee shop were you can buy what's advertised on the sign.   Click Photo For Enlargement (531 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (545 Kb)   Another view while walking around the block.

Day 2, more rain!   Click Photo For Enlargement (499 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (417 Kb)   Dam Square, the heart of Amsterdam.

While Steve is in the restroom George Clooney is making a move on Dayle.   Click Photo For Enlargement (479 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (555 Kb)   This is the bike parking area at the Amsterdam train station. I think there are more bikes here than in all the US.

During a short side trip to Paris I met up with my buddy Lance.   Click Photo For Enlargement (707 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (577 Kb)   A way to get out of the rain. A canal tour in a glass covered boat.

On day 3 we are taking a train trip to Apeldoorn Netherlands to meet the Dutch contigent of the R/C Tank Combat club. This is the Central Train station in Amsterdam.   Click Photo For Enlargement (596 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (528 Kb)   Here's Steve (left) alongside Sigi, Joris, Willem, and Marc. Not only being a clown that is very evident in this pic, but Marc is also a not so famous Dutch soap opera star!

Marc with his son Jurre. Marc is most famous in Holland for building this most awsome semi scale model of a Leopard tank for his son. For video of Jurre's first ever drive of the Leopard check out http://www.tyngtech.com/vids   Click Photo For Enlargement (882 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (531 Kb)   Here's Sigi demonstrating his HEAVY DUTY and highly detailed building style!

After a great day with the Dutch tankers and Marc and his lovely wife Wendy (who is one awsome cook!), the train ride back to Amsterdam.   Click Photo For Enlargement (492 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (516 Kb)   Day 4. We decided to try a bus tour to some sites around Amsterdam. Here were looking for the tour company somewhere on Damgracht street (Amsterdam's main street).

The mandatory demonstration of wooden shoe making!   Click Photo For Enlargement (527 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (902 Kb)   Dayle admires the local craftmanship.

After the shoes we visit a real live working Dutch windmill. For some cool video of it's workings check out http://www.tyngtech.com/vids   Click Photo For Enlargement (488 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (393 Kb)   The view is awsome. The background looks pretty good too. ;-)

Dayle getting about in the windmill.   Click Photo For Enlargement (819 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (499 Kb)   There's canals everywhere in Holland, not just in Amsterdam. Where you see canals you'll see houseboats also.

The cheese girl. Part of the bus tour was a visit to a "cheese factory". This mainly consisted of a 5 minute discription of how cheese is made by this young lady in four different langauges. Of course after the talk the doors to the cheese store opened up! We did get to taste some good cheese.   Click Photo For Enlargement (767 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (528 Kb)   The next stop in the tour was the fishing village of Volendam.

Mainstreet Volendam. A souvenirs buyers paradise! Great fish n chips too.   Click Photo For Enlargement (416 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (487 Kb)   Fishing boats in Volendam.

The last stop on the tour was the town of Marken. Marken is another little picturesque town where they've painted most of the houses green.   Click Photo For Enlargement (483 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (672 Kb)   Day 5, we decided to take in a couple of museum's. We first visited the Van Loon House. This is a beautiful restored 18th century grand canal house. This is the garden behind the house.

A ceiling shot inside the Van Loon. Stunning 1700's wood work.   Click Photo For Enlargement (761 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (529 Kb)   A beautiful shot on a beautiful day. Check out http://www.tyngtech.com/vids for video of this scene.

Only in Amsterdam.   Click Photo For Enlargement (514 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (790 Kb)   Our second museum stop for the day was the Amsterdam Historisch Museum. A very interesting location if your at all interested in the history of this magnificent city. It was so interesting, it turns out I only took one picture while there. This is another ceiling shot. It's of some religious artwork in one of the upper level displays.

Day 6, we get an early start and the weather is looking better and better. This is a cool building just north of our apartment.   Click Photo For Enlargement (469 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (777 Kb)   This was an intersting canal shot. On many canals the houses sit right on the water. This is in the red light district btw.

We checked out another museum today. This is a shot from within the Museum Amstelkring. The Amstelkring is a 17th century canal house with a hidden Catholic Church on the upper floors. It seems the Dutch Protestants around this time outlawed Catholic masses and Catholics had to worship in these hidden churches.   Click Photo For Enlargement (839 Kb)

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The Palace on Dam Square in good weather! :-)   Click Photo For Enlargement (486 Kb)

We next visited the Anne Frank house. They didn't allow any photography inside. This was an incredible and very somber experience.

After the Anne Frank house we took in a movie and afterwards had our first experience on Amsterdam's tram system. The U.S. has a long way to go to match Europe in mass transit.   Click Photo For Enlargement (595 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (371 Kb)   Day 7, we slept late and stayed close to the apartment. We visited Rembrandt's house which was right around the corner from our place. It's been restored to the way it looked when the master owned it. I didn't get any pics of the interior.

Right behind our place was this church and the BELLS! They would ring on every hour and quarter hour. Thankfully they stopped at 11pm and didn't start up until 8am.   Click Photo For Enlargement (358 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (424 Kb)   The Dutch have some interesting bicycle designs. I call this one the minivan. You would see mom's riding around town in these with one or two kids on board.

A mini car.   Click Photo For Enlargement (356 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (428 Kb)   This is a classic Dutch bicycle. Most of the bikes in Amsterdam look like this. The design hasn't changed much over the years.

Day 8, another bike. I call this one the pickup truck. This is a cargo bike. You would see a bunch of these in the morning as delivery guys were making their deliveries.   Click Photo For Enlargement (400 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (391 Kb)   On this day we took a day trip outside of Amsterdam to checkout the Zuiderzee museum. This is a cool open air musuem that consists of historic buildings from all over the Netherlands.

That evening we were walking around town and came across this. Three guys pulled their car on the sidewalk and commenced to play all night.   Click Photo For Enlargement (401 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (319 Kb)   The infamous red ligh district. Behind the windows with the red glow are pretty young women (some not so young or pretty) in bikini's advertising there wares. This area covers several blocks.

There always seemed to be something going on in the evenings. Here we ran across a movie or TV crew shooting a scene.   Click Photo For Enlargement (301 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (422 Kb)   Day 9, So where do all the old bikes end up in Amsterdam? Apparantly in the canals. This morning we walked outside our door to this comotion. Wherever this clawed contraption would dip into the canal there was sure to be a bunch of old bikes coming out.

Must be a German resturant! ;-)   Click Photo For Enlargement (386 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (415 Kb)   I didn't get many pics this day. We were just walking around and doing some shopping. I couldn't help taking a shot of this vintage military motorcycle though.

Our day to fly home. We cleaned up the apartment and took some pics of our home away from home.   Click Photo For Enlargement (360 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (366 Kb)   The apartment we rented was located in a 350 year old canal house. It was pretty cool staying in a place older than the not so old US-of-A.

A hotty in the window!   Click Photo For Enlargement (290 Kb)

Click Photo For Enlargement (333 Kb)   The bedroom is located on the upper loft area. This is it for our Amsterdam trip. I hope you've enjoyed the picture show. Steve and Dayle.