Found some friends at amsterdam station, and after dropping luggage at the hotel, went out in Amsterdam to visit the Our House music museum

nice weather for early March

A few more things I hadn't seen yet, but starting to scrape the bottom a bit ;)

Then, they had fake museums, including a cheese museum and a tulip museum:

Another "museum" is Electric Lady Land, which is hard to visit due to fairly limited hours on some days. It as an interesting private collection of phosphorescent stuff:

After that, went to Utrecht for ASOT 1000, and after an all nighter for the party, went directly to the airport to catch a non stop KLM back to SFO. Had enough time to enjoy the KLM lounge on the way :)

I met my friend Nicolas for dinner after arriving

The next day, I went to drive to Laval for a few other attractions, starting with Cosmodome. It's not a must do attraction, but I was curious to check it out since it was onthe way to Esterel:

the main attraction was a custom mission to mars or to the moon

it was interesting

it included some games

the displays after that were basic and a bit underwhelming

Next door was the Armand Frappier, a Canadian scientist who helped to discover vaccines:

I got to help testing a vaccine :)

mission accomplished :)

I then checked out MontVR, it was ok enough, just worth the 1H I spent there ;)

From there was time for the Porsche Ice Experience during the few following days.

On the way back to the airport, I had most of a day, so I went to check out the Biodome and related attractions in downtown:

had to clean up my car a bit

During my drive, I noticed that people had tent carports in their driveways to avoid cleaning their cars

I started with the insectarium which was quite nice

really cool camouflage

pretty colors

beautiful fellow

Next, the botanical garden was a bit snowy but nice to see:

Last, but not least was the biodome:

I also watchd a movie at the planetarium, and then it was time to get back to the airport and fly home.