Preparations

So I've decided to go to Amsterdam for the holidays, and I figured it would be a good time to start this blog off right. So far, I've got my plane ticket, a hotel reservation, an international power adapter for my MacBook, the last volume of The Barroque Cycle, a couple of guidebooks, a big ol' honkin' map of the city (thanks, Ben!), and a jones for the etching collection at the Rembrandt House. We'll see how it goes in the land of tulips, calvinists, and quasi-legal soft drugs.