We got up this morning and made breakfast, and then set off for the Van Gogh museum. It was a great museum -- large, but manageable, subject matter.. and Vincent's work is truly stunning. Over and over you'd say "wow." We separated from Cormac and Eva, and Elise and I went our own way.
After the museum, we went to an Argentinian steakhouse, and had a selection platter which we shared between us. We went back to the boat, hooked back up with Cormac and Eva, and then headed out to "Brouwerij d'IJ", a Belgian-style dutch brewery *IN* a windmill. Elise went in and asked the bar staff, "when you get off work, where do you go?" and they directed us straight to wonderful dinner nestled into the neighborhood.
After dinner, we went back to the boat, and Cormac and I headed into town to experience the Holland-Italy game that was going on. Holland won 3-0, and as we were walking through the neighborhood we would hear spontaneous cheers go up as everyone in town was paying attention to the game. It struck us that there were NO cars and practically no bicycles or pedestrians. The streets were deserted. Pretty pleasant, actually. We ended up at the Cafe de Sluyswacht, which is a building that appears to be sinking into the canal -- it's getting a tilt to it. When you're standing inside to buy a beer, it feels funny.
Cormac ordered an orange juice and the guy put almost a dozen oranges through a juice machine right in front of us, making the freshest orange juice you could possibly imagine. It was really cool.
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