Dear Boys and Girls,

Ms. B and I are in Amsterdam, waiting for our next plane which will take us to Africa.  Have Mrs. Loken show you where Amsterdam is on the world map. 

Amsterdam is a city in a country called the Netherlands or Holland.  People still wear wooden shoes here.  Sam, what continent is Amsterdam on? 

Amsterdam is an amazing city.  There are more bikes here than cars!  My kind of place!  The houses are tall and skinny as you can see from the pictures, and instead of streets in many places, they have canals.  What is a canal, Colin?  

Some people live in houseboats on the canals. 

It is a cool, drizzly day here, about 45 degrees.  Is that above or below freezing, Harley?  

I hope everything is going great in Minnesota.  I'm thinking of you all today, and I'm eager to show the students in Malawi the class picture of you guys that Maria took last Thursday.

I'll write more when we get to Malawi.

Yours truly,

Mr. P.

P.S.  Mrs. Loken, if you drag the photos out of this post and drop them on the desktop, you can click on them and they'll open in "preview."  Then, you can zoom in on them (I think you use the "view" menu) and make them fill the whole screen.