Thanks Leaford!
I am going to put in an order now, and make a petition.
My company is HQ'd in Holland, and we had a big meeting in Deventer. I did spend Sunday (my birthday) in Amsterdam. It is a really beautiful city. Have been 3 times now, but still need to find a way to spend more than one day there at a time.
It's a great city. I did a canal tour, went to Bulldog's coffeehouse, the Renoit museum, a second Bulldog's coffeehouse, Anne Frank's house, another Bulldog's, the OudeKirk, Bulldog's, I won almost a thousand guilders paying Blackjack in The Holland Casino, and then spent a good chunk of it in Bulldog's.
I also almost died there. In a scene just like the one in FInal Destination, I was just about to step off a curb at a crosswalk, when a light rail trolly whizzed right in front of my nose, within an inch, at full speed. I saw it before I started crossing, but disregarded it expecting it to stop at the stop before the crosswalk like the two before it. Not to mention the light was green my direction and red its. But I guess that's not how it works there, and the cars and other pedestrians knew that somehow.
I was saved from death by being yanked back by a beautiful young girl about my age. We had a passionate love affair for that entire summer and she is now raising my love child, and pining for her lost love, trolly-yank.
Ok, I made that last paragraph up. I just jerked to a stop in the nick of time. And it was only a weekend stay. I have no love children, and have never had a passionate affair.
