Taking a break in the Louvre

Dad exiting a store in Paris....

The Arch de Triumph

Dad comforting a sad lady in Paris

Really a statue of course!!

Dad and Mark in front of a food shop

A typical apartment building in Paris

Notre Dame

Mom and Mark in downtown Paris

About to enter the Louvre

Hal and Eddie overlooking the Seine

Here we are in PARIS

A bicycle parking lot

There are so many bikes in Amsterdam that they need "parking lots" for them......

A typical street cafe in Amsterdam

Anne Frank's house

This is where Anne Frank and her family and friends hid from the Nazis until their hiding place was revealed by someone!! They of course ended up in concentration camps.

Mark and his good friend Nickie from Mumbai India

One of the canals in Amsterdam

We were able to take a couple of rides in a boat on the canals in Amsterdam...Some of the people even live in houseboats on the canals. I don't know what they do now when the canals have frozen over!!

View from Mark's lving room

Mark on his way to work

Practically everyone rides bikes to and from work....Here is Mark about to go to work on his bike....We are looking down from the second floor where he lives in a lovely apartment.....

Another view in Vondel Park

We really loved this wonderful relaxing spot!!

Beautiful Vondel Park in Amsterdam

Mark's apartment is just around the corner from Vondel Park....A lovely place to take a walk or to sit at an outside cafe, drink coffee and just enjoy the ambience.

Mark's street in Amsterdam

Just step out of the door of his apartment and this is the view!!

We will start our Blog with our vacation in September 2008 visiting Mark in Amsterdam. He then took us to Paris for a long weekend....!! What a wonderful
experience!!!