Off The Deep End

We had one full day on our own in the city. We hit the bikes and headed out. First to a market, then a local coffeeshop before visiting the Van Gogh Museum. The special exhibit there was amazing. It was all about the effect of night and evening scenes on impressionistic painting. Obviously Starry Night was the focus of the exhibit, but what I found the most interesting was the obvious inflfuence of earlier painters on Van Gogh. The way they structured the exhibit was chronological so you could easily see the effect of early Millet on the work of Van Gogh.

After flying all night we landed in Amsterdam at around 10 AM. We thought that Su would be there before us and would meet us in baggage claim, no Su. After heading to the information office and paging her on the overhead intercom we thought to check the arrival board. To our surprise we discovered her flight was landing at that moment. Not only that, but I spotted Christine, Frank and baby Lucas waiting for us at the door. Jammie and I snuck up behind them and struck glam poses to see how long they would stand there without noticing us.

Before leaving on our next adventure I was scheduled to work for three days. We flew out of Bozeman on a Thursday so I had told Steve I could work Monday through Wednesday. Then the unthinkable happened, Bridger extended their ski season. I had planned my return to MT to coincide with Bridger's closing weekend, but it turned out my cousins were in town and so I sacrificed skiing Sunday to spend time with family. I had thought that therefore I would miss out on skiing, but Bridger decided to stay open and extra week.