HI, let's continue the Ruby Slipper story today with chapter three! I have no pics to post today since we are right down to the mundane work of preparing for the holidays--cleaning, wrapping, finishing projects that are giving us difficulties! No point in posting pictures of that! So I hope you enjoy this next chapter of a most amazing occurrence in my life.
THE RUBY SLIPPER INCIDENT
Chapter 3--We landed in Amsterdam, Holland in the morning. I was excited to see a windmill from the window of the plane as we descended. Why was this important to me? I remembered that as a little girl I used to have imaginary friends (like so many little kids do) and my imaginary family was from the "Netherlands." I constantly talked about going to the Netherlands to see a windmill! Well, I finally did! Never mind that it took about 35 years to get there!
Amsterdam was interesting. I was relieved to see that most of the signs in the airport were in English. I would have been totally lost though, if I had not been with a group. Looking back at the pictures, we all look so tired it's a wonder we didn't just camp out on a bench or chair in the airport and sleep. Instead we toured the city. We took a canal ride on which some of the people could hardly stay awake. We saw Anne Frank's house and other famous buildings.
The highlight for me was eating at a traditional restaurant. It was cozy and quaint. I noticed that the houses, stores, shops, etc were all sort of "skinny." Everything is crowded into small areas of land between the waters. This canal city is unique indeed. There were even actual houseboats where people live right on the water!
During our dinner we enjoyed traditional European food and what I ordered, though I can't spell it, was very hearty and warm, a combination of mashed potatoes, shredded carrots, cabbage, sausage and spices. It dispelled the chill of the damp day. We had been walking all around before this and the warm, cozy restaurant with baskets of fresh European bread was a treat indeed.
I made a quick trip to the flower market before we needed to get back to the airport. We rode on the public trains that day as well. This was a new thing for me and we never did completely understand the public transit system. We all ended up sitting where we were not supposed to and we got "escorted" in the Dutch language off that particular car. When we realized they wanted us to move we went on to another car, actually nicer than that one and rode on in style! We got back to the airport and prepared to board the plane to Africa. I think we were scheduled to leave around 9pm. for about an 8 hour flight to Nairobi. Or so we thought....
Stay tuned for chapter 4 of the Ruby Slipper Incident soon! It will amaze you in the end how God did all these wonderful things to give me a very incredible experience! Blessings, LORI
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