Kinderjik March 24

We arrived Amsterdam on time, as  scheduled. Our KLM flight from Los Angeles was smooth and as comfortable as people poured into a can like sardines can expect.  Indeed,  "steerage" has lost it's appeal.

Our adventure started with the unpacking when we discovered what we thought was our bag, was not.  A staff person from the ship accompanied Ken back to the airport where we were lucky to find our identical bag complete with proper name tags. That will teach us to check  our baggage tags before blindly grabbing and running,

Dinner was great, our table companions interesting and bed a welcome completion to a successful day.  Our ship departed Amsterdam 11PM for Kinderoijk where we were greeted with very cold weather and a cold wind that rivaled that of our brief visit to Barrow Alaska. After a background briefing on Hollands very tenuous grasp on stability from the sea and an unfriendly accumulation of water. A  walking tour of the windmills that have preserved the country and its treasured way of life was offered for those who wanted to brave the cold.  Sensible to the end -- I watched from the comfort of the ship.