Van Gogh Museum

Jay and the kids went to the Van Gogh museum the last night of our visit in Amsterdam.  This museum did not allow photographs.  So, here are a few pictures taken outside the museum and also some pictures that were taken outside of the Rijks museum during the day.

The Rijks Museum is behind us.

Van Gogh Museum behind them.

More fun pictures in front of the Rijks Museum.

Can you see Ivan in this picture?

Emily planking in Amsterdam

Outside the Van Gogh Museum.

Exploring Amsterdam

We went to see the Anne Frank museum.  It is the actual building where she and her family hid from the Nazi Germans for 2 years.  We were not allowed to take pictures.  The experience was very somber and humbling to think what she and her family had to endure.  I was very touched by many things in the museum, but mostly by her father who was the only survivor.

After we went to the Anne Frank museum, we walked around Amsterdam and here are a few things we saw:

The perfect bike for a family of 4!!

I thought the Germans loved their bicycles, but...the Dutch are the real bicycle fanatics!

Cheese anyone?

Bikes and boats...this is Amsterdam.

At the flower market...ooo la la

bikes and boats!

Stedelijk Museum

What is a Stedelijk museum?  It is a museum of modern art.  Emily and I went one evening after dinner.  Ivan and Jay relaxed at the apartment.  Here is what we discovered....

Goofy picture...goofy facial expression :o)

Mark Chagall - self portrait

Jackson Pollock (who would have guessed?)

Picasso (in case you can't read the signature in the upper lefthand corner)

Emily - as herself.

Inside looking in.

Current installation.

Guess who?  (Andy Warhol...oh, and Emily)