Amsterdam! Day One-ish

We took our trip to Amsterdam and just got back a couple days ago!! Lots of pics to share, so I am breaking it up a bit. We took a redeye flight so we could sleep...or at least that was the intention. Avery was the only one that got a full night's sleep!

The SLC Airport ha a Lego store, so we had to stop there and check it out.

Also took a few selfies before our flight took off.

And got a couple pics of the kids sleeping. They each got a nice packet from the flight attendant with an eye mask in it and Gavin had to use his.

We arrived in Amsterdam around 3pm local time, so we unloaded our luggage at the hotel and went to dinner.

The kids in the lobby of our hotel - home for the next ten days.

View down the street from our hotel which had this church on it. Also, these tropical birds loved hanging out in this tree that was below our windows. Someone bought two of them as pets and they got loose. Now there are more!

After dinner, we crashed and took the next day to meander around the area. There is a park near the hotel called Vondelpark, so the next morning we walked there and found a playground!

The playground had a climbing unit to get to the tall slide and it was geared towards older kids with longer legs, so Carlton had to help Avery climb up.

We also checked out the tram system to familiarize ourselves. We walked to the tram station closest to the hotel, about a ten minute walk, and we rode it to Central Station. The kids loved riding the tram!! We ended up using the tram almost every day we were in Amsterdam. From Central station we walked the three miles back to the hotel to see the shops and restaurants in the area. 

Clog pics!

Flower market - lots of seeds, bulbs and plants to buy!

We also found the Lego store in Amsterdam!

Cool M.C. Escher theme along the stairs and then a Lego house on the first floor for the kids to go inside and play.

The next day we checked out the Nemo Museum which is a Science museum that has lots of interactive exhibits. The kids really loved it and we spent most of the day there! Pics in the next Amsterdam post!