The next morning we were off towards Germany, when we arrived in Munich we had to change trains at the railroad station, this is the only place we got separated. When we found each other, we had been standing on opposite sides of a very large sign, not daring to go look for each other in case the other one would come back to that point looking for the other. Of course we missed our train so we had to take a later one to arrive in Amsterdam, Holland, like we were supposed to do. Munich was the only city we were in during the whole trip where I felt a little nervous about being there. It was just the type of people that were hanging around the train station and being on the streets that gave me that nervous feeling.
When we arrived in Amsterdam, we were put into a hotel down town right across the street from the train depot and the rooms were very nice, nice furnishings and good security but it was on top of a teen hang out and the noise that went on all night was just deafening. The next morning we moved further out away from the down town area. While there we went on tours to the Hague, to the Delft China Works factory, to museums and the Red Light District, took a tour ship down the canals and to the Tulip Park (I can't remember the name of it), but I've seen it several times on the inter-net since that time.
As we were going into the railway station to leave, two girls came up behind us and told us that we had something on the back of our coats. We went into the rest room to clean it off and we determined it was a mixture of fish oil and mustard. Mom laid all of her bags down on the counter and proceeded to clean off her coat, when she finished, she went to get her things and her purse was missing. We think it was stolen by the girls that told us about the stuff on the back of our coats. We reported it to the police (the police station was also in the railway station) and they were convinced that it was taken by someone that would be on the train going out of town. Mom had her passport , and all of her travelers cheques in her purse and we couldn't do anything about it until Monday, (this happened on a Friday evening).
"When you get lemons you just have to make lemonade" has always been my motto, so we just made the best of it and went on some tours and saw as much of the city as we could possibly see. We went and bought some wooden shoes and had shipped back home. On Monday morning, we went to the U.S. Embassy to see about her passport and when we got there they told us it had been found along the railroad tracks. Oh my goodness talk about The Lord looking after us. We did have to go to Utrek, a town several miles away to see about getting her travelers cheques refunded. We had to call Kent and have him go down to the bank and get the numbers of them before we could get anything done and then call him back to see what he had found out because her duplicates were also in her purse, which you are never supposed to do have your checks and the duplicates in the same place. After we got back home her purse was sent to her but there was no note as to who sent it and there was nothing in it so we have no idea who sent it or where it was found.
This concludes my entry for today, see you all tomorrow or the next day!?!?!?
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