Amsterdam | Musings on Momentum

As some of you know, my husband I returned from our honeymoon in Europe a few weeks ago. We spent a whirlwind of a week and a half traveling to some of our favorite cities, two of which were new destinations for me! Rather than do a full trip recap, which I don’t feel remotely qualified to do after spending just a few days in each of our gorgeous destinations, I’m going to share a few photos and a favorite memory or two from each of the cities we visited over the next three weeks. First up…Amsterdam!

Honeymoon Amsterdam Canal Clouds

We started our honeymoon with an amazing four days in Amsterdam spent languidly wandering the the banks of the canals, popping into cafes and taking in the sights and sounds of the city. It was my first time in Amsterdam and I have to say that it stole my heart. It is a friendly, vibrant, beautiful jewel of a city and I can definitely see myself living there in the future. Perhaps just not during the holidays…

We are off to Europe for our honeymoon in just twelve days. Excitement hasn’t quite set in yet…perhaps because there is so much that still has to get done between now and then. I don’t think our upcoming European adventure will feel real until we say goodbye to little Lola on Christmas morning. That will be followed by days of tears, my insistence that I don’t want to go and that the honeymoon must be cancelled, then my final acceptance and inevitable excitement the night before our departure, likely resulting in me not getting one wink of sleep. So it goes.

Though the temperatures are starting to dip into the 40’s in Los Angeles, officially qualifying as unbearably chilly, it is still hard to believe that it is full blown winter in some parts of the world. Parts that I’ll be traveling through in less than two weeks. To remind me of this, and to get me into the holiday spirit in general, I’ve been going through photos of European winter wonderlands like the ones below.

Winter bicycling in Amsterdam

Honeymoon Stop One – New Year’s in Amsterdam

European Winter Wonderlands