~sky, with fries~

October 30th, 2016

Sunrise over Amsterdam. Having a few hours between flights, we trained in with already hungover, costumed youth who looked like we felt. After a dense week and long red-eye, it was bracing when the train doors opened and a faux blood-covered nurse with peacock blue Rocky Horror eye make-up dragged in, flopped down, and promptly fell asleep.

7am on Halloween Sunday is a new way to experience this city. The canals were garbage-strewn with beer and such, but mostly french fries.

Half-finished fries were flung in all directions, as though in a drunken baby snack tantrum.

But above was a Baroque church ceiling sky,

as was below,

as were whole buildings filled with giant wheels of cheese,

and lions,

and trees with still Autumn leaves.

After our 21 hour door-to-door adventure we landed in Berlin, crashed like a candy-striper drag queen, and woke in time for a late night snack and stroll.