...dam pics

Trip was great...thanks to family and friends - and to the few poker books I've read :)


dad doesn;t look happy here, but he is


mom brought her most recent 20 or so paintings


ahh relaxing in the park


behind us english students (on vacation? school trip?) were drawing the trees...there were so many younger european high-school age people - a lot were unsupervised...what a cool place to go at a young age

mmm...this is the "creamy"...delicious fresh, raw, new herring


there's other seafoods there and drinks - but I come for one thing!


my room was small...and hot! damn mom and dad brought florida with them


yonce (sp?)...so cute


Henk and family with mom and dad...always show us a great time...thanks so much


Yonce eats well...


I'm not sure what this is


this is the shirt Anna-Sophie wants from the outlet stores in Florida


"the only english store in the village"


most stuff is so expensive after the switch to the Euro, but some stuff is really cheap...take for instance simple broodjes (sandwiches)...1.50!


more park...taught mom and Anna-Sophie how to play poker


under the bridge...riding the self-powered boats in the canals


my last night we had a nice dinner with friends

...Fun in the sun (amsterdam pt 1 and 2)

I'm a little more than halfway done with my trip to amsterdam...having a good time so far relaxing though I wish my sis or Tamsen was here to hand out with at night :)

The trip started off not so great as the plane I was on detoured to Las Vegas right away as some women was sick. 1 hour and 45 minutes later we took off with a landing time that was after my amsterdam flight was suppossed to take off! I landed at Houston's "George Bush" airport with apprehension not wanting to spend a whole night in Houston! (withing 2 minutes of landing I saw some girl wearing a we love george w. bush shirt - yuck). Anyhwo to my luck the amsterdam flight was delayed 3 hours :)

The trip has been good so far...chilling in the park with mom and dad...eating well, walking around, seeing paintings, eating delicious "new herring".

But the highlight so far was last night. Me and Dad entered a 80 person, 60 Euro (plus 1 hour rebuy) tournament. 6 hours later at 2 AM I was on the last table and won the entire thing! (wiht a pair of 2's). There were some good player from all over and I made some silly plays (folded out of turn once, string-bet once), but I am really happy with my play...

more later...

...Amsterdamage!

So I'm going to Amsterdam in a few days. I look forward to resting and NOT staring at a screen for 10 hours a day :)