Holland . Netherlands . Amsterdam .

So , last month Ron traveled to Holland to attend a computer security conference. It was a great trip for him and he took pictures while he was there and I wanted to share them with you. Enjoy!

Amsterdam has an interesting set up - it has canals running through the city .Here are some pictures so you can get a better idea of what it looks like .




What is also interesting is that a long time ago the buildings were taxed based on how wide they were so the buildings are very tall and skinny .



The buildings are actually so skinny that in order to get your furniture into the building you need to anchor it in using a hook/pulley installed on the roof and bring the furniture in through the window !






I guess in Amsterdam people love riding bicycles.



Ron said the road situation was pretty confusing. Its not exactly clear which area is designated for walking / driving / bicycles / trains ... and it seems from the pictures that people just do whatever they want.






Ron ordered a hamburger and this is how it came...haha. He did say that all the food he ate there was really good.




Oh and you are probably wondering about tulips ... Ron said there were lots of small tulip shops .



He also saw these - these are for people to pee in !! Men I would assume ... haha.Strange.Who would want to use one of these ... ick.






Here is a cool building Ron saw .




Ron also did some shoe shopping on his trip .Karlskrona only has two shoe shops , and neither of them carry a very good selection . If I would have known there was going to be shoe shopping on this trip maybe I would've gone!! haha.




Here are some more pictures around town.








Here are pictures of Ron's hotel and hotel room .






View out the window ..




Okay this is funny. Its a basketball hoop TV showing a TV with a guy playing pool ... I know - it doesn't make any sense. And the guy in the picture is Ron's co worker.



Ron had a great time in Holland - I hope you like the pictures!

My Little Adventure

Alright - so I'm still waiting on the Stockholm pictures - I need to get some of the pictures off the internal memory on the digital camera.BUT I did take some pictures today.My Swedish friend Lotta asked me to run some errands with her .... so here are some pictures from our day.

Here are a few pictures of me and Lotta.We're so cute ... haha.



So , when Lotta first told me she had a dog that was a mix between a German Shepard and a Doberman - I thought I was going to get attacked - but Pim Pim ( a Swedish candy ) is the sweetest dog ever .





Pim Pim likes to sit on the floor in the passenger seat under the dashboard - I could not believe she fit down there - but she liked it and I thought it was really cute.




We needed to go to Roddeby and since Lotta's hometown was nearby - we stopped by to see where she grew up.Really small town - I think the population is about 4,000 - I think that was how many students attended HBHS while I was there = not alot of people.

Yay driving pictures.






This is the house Lotta grew up in .



So , we stopped by this mini mall center and we were looking around the stores and came across a purse shop - so, of course we had to go in.Now , I graduated from FIDM and I'm pretty sure that putting a horse in a purse store does not help with selling the purses . A display ? A horse that wears purses ? I had to get a picture.





On the way back to Karlskrona we taught each other ways to offend people in Swedish/English .... That was fun.



And in case you didn't get enough of Pim Pim - here she is jumping in the air to catch snow in her mouth.




And here is me - Happy.I had a fun day today.

Snow !

Here are some pictures I took when it started snowing.





The tide was really high ... kinda creepy.


And of course ...




We are going to Stockholm this weekend so I should have lots of great pictures next week!