I'm glad you liked the pics! That number of tulips is definitely not natural. A lot of them have names that are just letters and numbers which I think means they've been "bred in captivity" if you will. Basically just created. But they're BEAUTIFUL! How creative of people to be able to MAKE a species! Or a sub-species. :)
I'm also really glad to hear that gma is looking forward to skyping with me! That's nice that she's spending the night so she can do that. Too bad I'll be asleep when you're all there for dinner. It would be such fun to be able to call while you're all there! 9 hours is a pretty big time difference though...
I also hope they find something wrong with grandma's knee, because, as you said, then they can fix it! The worst is going to the doctor and not being given a diagnosis. When I would get sick while working at the preschool I would go to the doctor hoping that a test like for strep throat, for example, would come back positive so I could just get on the right meds and start feeling better! Doctors are a little useless here because they tell you to go to bed, have tea and take time off work and come back in 2 wks-1 month if you're not feeling better. Trouble is, I always go to the doctor only as a last result, so by the time I'm at a doctor's office I already will have done all those things and waited that long and just want to be fixed!! Another interesting thing here is that if you call in sick to work it's the government that pays your sick leave (but only starting on the 3rd day...you get no compensation if you're sick only 1 or 2 days in a row...), but because the government is paying they send inspectors to your house to make sure you're actually where you say you are and are actually sick. Crazy, huh?? I don't really like that, even though I don't think people should use sick time as vacation time, because I do believe that some people might need a mental health day now and then when they should be allowed to stay home even if they're not conventionally "sick" ya know? Maybe they have something else going on that demands they take some time off. I think that should be allowed.
I'm super excited for my parents to come. We've been looking forward to this for a while now! I'll only partly be a tour guide because they're doing Amsterdam on their own and then we're going to Brugge where I don't know my way around either! It will certainly be fun for all of us, though! You can bet there will be a lot of pics after that trip!!
We had to avoid the large groups at the Jewish museum. It just ruins the experience when there's this massive group that can hardly fit in a room and the guide is holding up their brightly colored umbrella and shouting, "AND THIS ROOM IS BOUT THIS OTHER HORRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED DURING THE HOLOCAUST BLAH BLAH BLAH LET'S KEEP MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ROOM NOW." It was kind of insensitive too and seemed hardly worth it. I like to do museums at my own pace and visit the exhibits that interest me, and actually be able to see some of the displays, believe it or not! :)
I'm also really glad to hear that gma is looking forward to skyping with me! That's nice that she's spending the night so she can do that. Too bad I'll be asleep when you're all there for dinner. It would be such fun to be able to call while you're all there! 9 hours is a pretty big time difference though...
I also hope they find something wrong with grandma's knee, because, as you said, then they can fix it! The worst is going to the doctor and not being given a diagnosis. When I would get sick while working at the preschool I would go to the doctor hoping that a test like for strep throat, for example, would come back positive so I could just get on the right meds and start feeling better! Doctors are a little useless here because they tell you to go to bed, have tea and take time off work and come back in 2 wks-1 month if you're not feeling better. Trouble is, I always go to the doctor only as a last result, so by the time I'm at a doctor's office I already will have done all those things and waited that long and just want to be fixed!! Another interesting thing here is that if you call in sick to work it's the government that pays your sick leave (but only starting on the 3rd day...you get no compensation if you're sick only 1 or 2 days in a row...), but because the government is paying they send inspectors to your house to make sure you're actually where you say you are and are actually sick. Crazy, huh?? I don't really like that, even though I don't think people should use sick time as vacation time, because I do believe that some people might need a mental health day now and then when they should be allowed to stay home even if they're not conventionally "sick" ya know? Maybe they have something else going on that demands they take some time off. I think that should be allowed.
I'm super excited for my parents to come. We've been looking forward to this for a while now! I'll only partly be a tour guide because they're doing Amsterdam on their own and then we're going to Brugge where I don't know my way around either! It will certainly be fun for all of us, though! You can bet there will be a lot of pics after that trip!!
We had to avoid the large groups at the Jewish museum. It just ruins the experience when there's this massive group that can hardly fit in a room and the guide is holding up their brightly colored umbrella and shouting, "AND THIS ROOM IS BOUT THIS OTHER HORRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED DURING THE HOLOCAUST BLAH BLAH BLAH LET'S KEEP MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ROOM NOW." It was kind of insensitive too and seemed hardly worth it. I like to do museums at my own pace and visit the exhibits that interest me, and actually be able to see some of the displays, believe it or not! :)
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