- I apologize for the lack of a blog to this point.
- When I explain, I hope you will understand.
- I finally ate a decent meal today!
- I finally parsed my luggage down where I can (almost) carry it alone!
- I would like to mail a chunk of it to my brother where I will meet him at a future date in my trip, but I don’t know if I will have time. I’m only here the entire day tomorrow, before moving on. It’s the “moving on” that causes a problem…
- To describe what it’s like managing my life with a Traumatic Brain Injury, I refer you to Claudia Osborne and her entry TBI What’s It Like. I resemble this in almost every respect! (Imagine having these challenges and trying to tour Europe on a schedule!)
- I decided to simplify life tomorrow and purchase a guided tour of old Jewish Amsterdam, to include a “semi-private tour” of the Anne Frank Huis and allowing me to browse as long as I feel I need within. As Anne is such a critical centerpiece of my trip, I do not want to miss seeing her hiding place. I cannot, with the challenges noted in Claudia’s profile video above, realistically expect to manage tomorrow by waiting in line 2 – 3 hours and returning to see it at an assigned time. I’d rather have the guided tour, at a set time I can plan to arrive.
- It also includes additional Jewish history of Amsterdam, which I did not expect I would experience. That will be lovely! Well worth the cost of the program for the peace of mind, alone.
- It’s a very tiny tour. Only 20 people total! I managed one of the last 9 spaces in my time slot. Only two time slots available tomorrow and the first time was sold out. #IDoneGood!
- Tomorrow I will see the Anne Frank Huis!
- Now I can sleep and not concern myself with waking up at the crack of dawn to stand in line forever! #IamSoSmart!
- Only now is not the time to try to play with my camera! DUH! It’s 12:35am here now!! Time for bed, peoples!! Yike! Gonna sleep!
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