Lights. (not red ones.) 

Me outside Van Gogh. 

Van Gogh 

Interesting building. 

This is actually a mall! 

Jake 

Centraal station. (battery is about to die, leaving no time for comments!) 

From the Centraal Station exterrior. 

Dont remember 

Historich Musuem 

View of canal from near Liedseplien 

Jake giving the camera Blue Steel 

Amsterdam

Things are different here. Some things I like, and others not so much. When I come back to America, I'll still use katsup with my french fries (hold the mayo please). Everyone here bikes everywhere. Men in suites an woman in dresses will zoom past you on their delapidated 2 wheeler, dinging their bell if you step in their way, which is quite easy to do. In Amsterdam, far more people travel by bike than car.

Everyone here cares a great deal about fashion. Men wear pointy shoes. And, in a napoleanic moment (the dynomite kind) where I wish I had my camera ready, I watched a young woman enter a building wearing a skirt and MOON BOOTS! I have nothing else to say.

Ok, not there just yet

You're probably wondering what the heck a picture of portland is doing on a blog about our blog about Europe. (Or you've never been to portland. Or in my case, you've never been to europe.) Photography will be a major portion of this blog. A couple blocks from where the photo was taken, I bought my new camera, a Nikon D70, to take photos for my european trip. To make uploading photos to the blog very simple, I am using Picasa2 by Google. So before I leave for europe, I thought it would be good to test the software out. (Which I highly recommend.) Thus, you see a photo I took a few days ago.

View of Fox Tower from Pioneer Courthouse Square