Having walked off our beer a little bit we headed over to
the Anne Frank House just outside the neighborhood Jordann.
The annex the Franks lived in for almost two years was
smaller but also much larger than I had imagined from elementary school. It was
multiple stories for one, which I hadn’t realized, and it had a small kitchen,
again which I hadn’t realized. But the rooms were still very cramped and living
in that annex, with seven people, without ever getting to go outside must have
been crushing.
Everyone knows how heartbreaking Anne Franks story is so I
won’t get into it other than to say the museum made a point to inform that the
Frank’s story was not unique.
On our way out of the annex there is a museum area which
contains reproductions of Anne’s diaries (she kept many over the two years) as
well as some selected pages from both her diaries and some of her short stories
she had began writing.
One of the other things that caught my eye was a shiny,
gold, 13.5 inch, 8.5 lbs statue, that caused me to flip out a bit. So Abby
snuck this photo (there was a strict no photo rule) for me, and for you mom.
From Anne Frank’s house we hopped over another canal into
Jordann and wandered around a bit. Specifically we wandered into the tulip
museum and the cheese museum. The cheese museum was awesome, it was more of a
store with only cheese and plenty of samples.
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