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Places I've been in Hong Kong

You thought I was still in the Netherlands, didn't you? Well, I'm in Hong Kong. We've been here two weeks and we've already gone to three different parks. We live on the 33rd floor of our apartment building. It's the last floor in the building and we have stairs that lead onto the roof, or "our awesome deck."

I liked went we went to Victoria Peak because it was fun and we got to see some really pretty butterflies and flowers and some awesome spiders with legs longer than a daddy-long-legs.

I enjoyed going to the night market and bargaining for a really pretty swan from $120 down to $50. That's in Hong Kong dollars. I'm really liking it here in Hong Kong.

Cashing in Bottles

When we have lots of plastic bottles when you've been drinking things like soda or water, you take the bottles back to the Albert Heijn, the grocery store you can put them in these machines. You get EU 0.25 for every bottle you put in. You can also put crates of glass bottles in. I don't know how much you get for the crates but probably about 3.00 EU. Then it prints out a receipt for you and if you can take it up to the counter and get the money. Or you can buy something with it by giving it to the cashier.

Last night I bought Tic Tacs with my receipt.

Michael Jacksoning with Eva

I saw Eva. She was my friend when I lived in the Netherlands. At first we were kind of shy because we hadn't seen each other for awhile. But in the end of our visit, we were dancing to Michael Jackson's music together and having a great time! Sometimes I'd do a dance move that made her laugh and I asked Eva to go out of the room and start THriller again since it ended and I had an idea. We were in her little brother's room. They had some Mexican hats so I turned msyelf into a Mexican hat monster. And went into her little brother's closet. Then I told her she could come in. Then she came in and faced the closet. I came out moaning a scary moan with the Thriller music. She had some great dance moves like in the Smooth Criminal video.

On the Bridge

Last night I went to the Bridge in downtown Rotterdam. I saw the roof of my old favorite swimming pool. It was called Tropicana. There was a "Brutus Beer" restaurant nearby. (Beer in Dutch means Bear!) They have really good ribs. Everything was beautiful! I really enjoyed getting up on the bridge!

I am Estherdam

When I went to Amsterdam, me my mom, and stevie went to the Rijks Museum. I had an audio tour, steve-a-buddy wanted one too but he did not get one so I just let him listen with the headphones. He really liked it. He even looked at the exibet. We also saw some paintings that Rembrandt painted. We saw the Night Watch and the Jewish Bride. I saw two beautiful dollhouses. I really enjoyed going to Amsterdam.

FUN FACTS:
1. The paint on Rembrandt's painting was dark because of age.
2. The pans and dishes in the dollhouses were pure SILVER.
3. The ships would bring back things from other countries and sometimes the ships brought porcelain dishes from places like Asia and China. In the Netherlands, they wanted to make the same kind of porcelain. They never could make the smooth porcelain that China could make. The people in the Netherlands really liked the pictures on the porcelain dishes. Delft started trying to make porcelain and paint pictures on it. They went crazy with it. At the Rijksmuseum, I saw a porcelain bird cage, violin, a shoe, all with blue pictures on it. I think I'd like playing on that porcelain violin.
That's all the fun facts.