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19.3.60

Hi Sweetheart ,

At last today I got some mail - your little note with the senior class news and
a long letter from Mom including clippings and the comment that apparently
you're going to spend a "sewing weekend" at 633 W. Terrace. Sounds like a swell idea
all around and once more I'm so glad that we are each one of each other's families.
Right, sis? Say that makes it incest, doesn't it? Guess we had better be careful!
Since American Express is closed Sundays we had to forward to Rotterdam, where we'll
stop Wednesday on the way through. From then on it will go to Heideberg and then
Stuttgart. So after about 3/27 you should again write a Landgut Burg. And now for
3 days I can look forward to Rotterdam.

We had a wonderful, busy day today, improved by the sun's friendly presence
from about 10 AM on Maybe it's here to stay, especially when we see the flower fields
on Monday. Hope so anyway. We started (after American Express at the Rijks Musuem,
the biggest here. Wonderful collection of art, mainly 17th century - with much Rembrandt,
Franz Hals, Jan Steen (I like him especially), Vermeer, and also El Greco, Goya, Rubens,
Van Dyck, Velazquez, and others whose names I didn't recognize. We spent about 2 1/2 hours
there, then went upstairs to the library (a real, old, library, with old books and a certain
booky, musty, sweet study smell) to look over some Rembrandt etchings.

Then after lunch on a park bench, on to the Municipal Museum - mainly modern
art. They had some fine Van Gogh and also some Picasso (which left me cold) and
marc [space left blank] (whom I like much better ), several very comtemporary (some quite pleasing
to me surprisingly, considering how unsophisticated I am in modern art).

Then we drove across town to see a much over praised aquarium, back
down by the hostel to take an hour boat tour of the canals and harbor. This last
was tremendous - an education in itself (especially the harbor) and a good
introduction to buildings and areas which we'll see tomorrow morning more thoroughly
by bicycle.

Then on to a sort of automat-cafeteria for a huge dinner at stand-up tables,
at a cost of 50c. And then back here at 6:30 for a quiet evening - Time mag. and
talking with other students (American and German, including Bill Bischoff and Harvey
Nelson from Stuttgart Group III, who are here in the hostel tonight), and a letter to you.
And now its almost lights out sweetheart, so I've got to go. Tomorrow we'll
spend some more time here, then leave before lunch for Haarlem. Another letter
as soon as I can, and I love you very much- an don' you fergit it neither!

Always & forever

Your George