Day of Happy Wanders

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Today I brought my camera out with me for the first time in a long time. It was overwhelmingly gorgeous outside, and Christy and I had really good koffie and broodjes ("little breads", akin to sandwiches but more delicious) and then a meeting with Letje. I spent another long while in an amazing postcard store buying amazing postcards (why are there so many here?). I will not disclose how many I bought or how much I spent, because it's pretty obscene. I will just say that they gave me a "bulk discount." Then we wandered the Jordaan for a while with the intention of gallery hopping, but we really only hopped to one - an exhibit called "Guide to Ruined Buildings in the Netherlands XIX-XXI Century." It was all striking photos of odd abandoned or ruined architecture. Some of the photos looked like they were in Greece, some in the Everglades, some here - but they were all Dutch.

Words can't really express how happy I am right now. I don't ever want to leave this city.