Welcome to Rotterdam

We arrived in Rotterdam at 4AM, it was a long day of travel. Our flight out of Tel Aviv was delayed by one hour, so a long night became longer. We all went straight to bed and slept for four hours. It was easier to deal with lack of sleep when you don't have to change time zones. We are staying in Premier Suites Rotterdam, a kind of upscale apartment living. First order of business was grocery shopping but we discovered Rotterdam does not wake up until 10AM on Sundays, no stores open yet. Second order of business was laundry, we all ran out of clean clothes. There are 3 machines free of charge so we were good to go. Third order of business was to relax, it has been a whirlwind 10 days in Israel.

We are staying in the heart of Rotterdam. The short building is the central station. Jacob is also impressed with this modern city.

We went to a park near our hotel to look around and enjoy the weather. I think this statue is called Big Man.

Being a kid again.

 Colorful Rotterdam

Another statue we found commemorating 1940-1945. The description was in Dutch but probably a war memorial. We enjoyed our slow day and our pasta dinner. We didn't eat any pasta in Israel. Until tomorrow...