My winter break Europe trip part1

 

December 19th 2022 Monday Amsterdam

 

    For breakfast we picked up some food at a store. Then we went to a museum called 

Rijksmuseum where we waited for a while so we could find the tickets. Once we got inside

we got some headphones for an audio tour. when we went to get the headphones we 

found out we had the family Quest where you get to find eight secrets in the museum as a

group. We got a little sidetracked and ended up looking at the rest of the museum before 

we finished finding the secrets because it was super interesting.


     After the Rijksmuseum we headed out to the Van Gogh Museum. On our way we went 

the wrong way by accident. Once we found it, we showed our tickets and entered. We 

checked if we had the audio track on our tickets. We did not but since I wanted one my 

dad got it for me. Once we dropped off our stuff we started looking at the art. for certain 

pieces of Art you could listen to more info and details about it. There were three different 

floors all with art galleries. We did all three of them then found a different smaller gallery 

with other artists' work.


 Then for our last Museum we went to the Moco Museum. It had digital art in rooms so 

it was spread out. At the end there was a group of rooms that had mirrors and visual 

effects. After that we went to foodhallen  which has a variety of restaurants with all the 

different cuisines. We ordered a sushi cone (Sushi in a cone),  bitterballen, And I had a 

drink that had lime Ginger and Apple. It was good but it burned and stung. After a 

while we left and took a tram home.





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