A Trip to Noord

Today I ventured to the north area of Amsterdam in search of a printer.  The ride took me across two bridges, one of which had only one pedestrian lane open due to construction.  There were scooters, bikes, joggers, and people going camping going in two directions in this one lane of the pedestrian area of the bridge.  It could have ended very poorly for someone, but I saw no accidents nor did I cause any.

The route also went by some gorgeous fields, and even in some residential areas with no street names...I'll explain Amsterdam's street signs in another post (soapbox).

The Best Buy of Amsterdam is called Media Markt, with one of its two locations being in a large outdoor mall.  I bought a printer and paper and ink, only to discover that the printer came with ink and that it did not come with a cord to hook it up to my computer.  Now I know what I'll be doing Monday!

Bikey did an awesome job carrying my printer, as did my bike lock and my belt.

Some pics from the ride home.

These bike lanes are multi-purpose.

WTF is this.

This is a water statue of a man squirting water out of his eyes into a sheep's face.  I don't even know.

Have to go into town this week to get a cord to hook my printer up to the computer (curse you, HP!), but tomorrow I'm looking to go to the Modern Hippies Market!

Love you all, had some great Skype conversations today, keep 'em coming :)
xoox