Now that I've had almost a full week back in the States from my little jaunt around Holland, I thought it was time to share some of the experiences I had. Not just from this trip, either, but from the last time I was in Holland nearly 20 years ago. This should be fun.

	Then	Now
Age	19	you do the math
Purpose of trip	musical tour with the Continental Brass and Singers	SMB Nation Amsterdam conference
Length of stay	2 days (first part of 2 week tour of Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden	5 days, including travel
Where I stayed	some youth camp outside of Rotterdam	Hotel Schiphol A4 just outside of Schiphol Airport
Interesting places I visited	Kinderdyke (lots of windmills) Ten Boom clock shop (hiding place of Anne Franck) Delft and the Delft factory	Van Gogh museum Delft Dedoeln in Rotterdam Canal bus
Favorite anecdote	When walking through the windmills in Kinderdyke, I heard a familiar accent. Not only was a family from the US also walking through the same set of windmills, they were actually from Texas. San Antonio, to be exact. At 19, and in my first trip out of the country, I was just amazed that I'd be thousands of miles away from home and bump into someone from as close as San Antonio.	While standing in line waiting to get into the Van Gogh museum, I was telling my associate about my previous trip and how I ran into a family from San Antonio while walking through the windmills of Kinderdyke. The gentleman in line in front of us, who we had spoken with earlier, turned around let me know that he was from San Antonio.