Day 2!!

Here is what we did on day two!
First (after breakfast in the hotel - yummy bread, eggs, bacon, fresh squeezed orange juice and fruit) we went to the Concertgebouw to listen to a Tchaikovsky concert consisting of Cappriccio Italien and Symphony #5. It was an hour long and the acoustics were fantastic. We went hoping to get tickets at the window when a man asked us if we needed tickets (he was not a scalper, as he actually asked the ticket counter if he could sell them) and so we got awesome seats in the middle row and middle seats! For 2/3 of the price we would have paid! It was amazing.
Here are some pictures:





Then we went to the Rijksmuseum. That was amazing too - lot of Vermeer and other famous Dutch Painters. The Rembrandt 'Nightwatch' which was astoundingly large was there as well as the Vermeer "Milkmaid". There was also a a lot of artifacts like old Delftware and weapons and cabinetwork. It is quite a museum. Here are some pictures from he outside.






And then later - at night we went to VondelPark which is a huge park in Amsterdam. Here is a cafe in the middle of the park. It looked so pretty in twighlight.