Friday, November 21st.....Lisa and Alex made it in, but not without a little excitement on the landing. Friday the wind was blowing easily 40 MPH steady with gusts to near 70 MPH. They said during the descent until touchdown that the wings were wobbling up and down. It was so much that when they landed the steward came on to the PA system and said "thank you for flying Delta, I am sure you are glad that you did as we have the best pilots around"... that brought applause throughout the plane.
When we got to the apartment, we have to walk between tall buildings and they funneled the wind so much that we had to stop walking against it for a moment because we could not move forward with the luggage as the wind was almost ripping it out of our hands. It did out of Lisa's rolling backpack and rolling no more can it be called. :-). Strangely, when we were able finally move forward and got past the first two, the wind switched direction and it blew us forward and we could barely stop at the door to the apartment building.
We saw every kind of weather you could see in one day. The wind and rain early, then the sun came out and it warmed up enough that a light jacket would be fine, then finally, the wind picked back up and guess what???? we had sleet, hail and snow all within about an hour. and the sleet is really funky looking... it looks like dipping dots.
Later in the day, we went out walking near the university and went to the rowing lake that we believe was built for the 1928 Olympics. The Olympic stadium is nearby, but we haven't made it there yet. Alex just cannot believe all the bicycles that are here.
More to come regarding our trip into the central part of Amsterdam.
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