A'dam

Last weekend, I went a visited a friend who is studying in Amsterdam. Amsterdam was a really neat city. Every one bikes every where and there are canals and house boats and a whole host of exciting, interesting things. My first day in Amsterdam, my friend and her roommate took us on a tour of the city. We went to the main square and the red light district, and ate lunch in a really cool public library. On Saturday, we went to the market and had Turkish pizza, which was very good. We also went to the Nemo, which was a really great interactive science museum, which you definitely need a whole day to appreciate, and we went to see the Anne Frank House.

This picture is from the top of a secret tree-house-like reading cubby in the children's section. Also, they use the Dewey Decimal system at the public library in Amsterdam.

The Bronze Bust statue in the Red Light District.

Boats and a canal.

Windmill! This windmill is actually used as a brewery now.

Ducks... with Susie!

This picture is of the paving tiles outside of my friend's apartment complex, and shapes of the paving tiles reminded me a bit of some of the fracture and stability textures. My friend was right when she said that there weren't really any rocks in Amsterdam. There were some paving stones that looked like they were made out of the really well-known black marble from Austurias, which makes sense since the Netherlands used to be a part of the Spanish Empire. There were also some interesting paving stones in the red light distict that were a pink granite, although some had ductile shear zones in them.

.I had to take a picture of the Pyrenees, since I crossed them more successfully than Hannibal, and he's well-known in Salamanca, since he said that the women of Salamanca were the fiercest in the world after they attacked his army and held them at bay for a couple days.