It’s already September 30th which means 2 things:
my dad is less than 1 week from retirement
it has been 6 weeks since the last blog update
We have a fair amount of travel planned in the coming months (including a trip to MN for Christmas!) so we have been staying close to Amsterdam lately, with the exception of a weekend trip to Ghent, Belgium.
A few highlights from Ghent:
Our hotel was a converted monastery from the year 1278 (however, our room was in a relatively new addition).
We had a nice visit to the Ghent Design Museum.
An afternoon beer at Dok Brewing (which reminded us of the taprooms in N.E. Mpls).
Dinner at a nice restaurant that included a bottomless bowl of delicious Belgian style fries.
It has been nice to explore Amsterdam more, and we started taking rowing lessons on the Amstel River at the Roeicentrum Berlagebrug. Today we watched a few chukkas of a polo match that was being held in the heart of the city on the Museumplein.
Here are a few photos from Ghent and a few misc. shots from around Amsterdam.
