The party was great fun! Good food and much delightful conversation. And I got to meet even more Amsterdamsels and heren. Jouke and Gilberthe were in town too, how lovely!

Rein gave me a marvellous book, Checked Baggage, a book that had pictures of 3642 items that had been confiscated by security at airports, then bought by the artist, for 800 euros. One of the items, a switchblade, was shrinkwrapped to the book. Mine is number #614. The book was in this great bag from his architecture firm, and is the address of their offices, consisting of just a few number and letters, but if you drop a letter in the post office anywhere in the world with this address and their name, it will get to them.

Today I went to Sauna Deco, which is very beautiful, and was the perfect thing to do on my last day in Amsterdam. I leave tomorrow very early in the morning for my flight back to Vancouver, where I will stay for only 1 day, then I will be going to San Francisco for Heather and Derek's wedding, complete with chihuahua cortege, and hopefully not too much jetlag.

LINK | 4:02 PM | TB

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