I had a few hours left before having to track back to Schiphol, so I decided to make the most of it and visit the famous Rijks Museum, which is also in the Museum District not far from my hotel. Continuing in the good tradition of being a crazy tourist, I was the first one to actually enter the museum exhibit, as mentioned to me by the museum guard (I wasn't the first one in line to enter the building, but the couple in front of me took their time in the cloak room, so I beat them to the punch:). The Museum is under construction, so only a few halls were open to the public. It had a very nice exhibit on the Dutch colonial history, the role of the Catholic Church in sponsoring and inspiring artists, a display of the traditional Dutch blue-and-white ceramics, and the world-famous "Night Watch" by Rembrandt.
I decided to have a leisurely breakfast before rushing off to the airport and enjoyed the typical Dutch pancakes that tasted like regular pancakes but looked like Donut holes. After breakfast, I walked around a bit more until I realized that I had to run back to the hotel to make sure I wouldn't miss my flight. Of course, when it rains, it pours, so I not only missed my tram the first time, but when I got on the next one, I couldn't quite figure out how to make it stop at my stop, so I ended up going to the next one and running to the hotel, then running back out with my suitcase, catching a tram to Centraal, then a train to Schiphol...of course, I made the flight for the easy trip home.
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