Happy 4th Year Anniversary to Us & Amsterdam!

Hope you had a great weekend everyone! I spent a couple of days in London with a great friend of mine from California with the sound of our own laughter filling the pubs and streets we frequented (favorite pub name we saw: "The Slug & Lettuce" haha!).

Today is a special one though…on this day 4 years ago, I said my goodbyes to friends and family and grabbed my passport, my sense of adventure and a one-way ticket straight to Amsterdam. I was fresh out of college, on the verge of beginning Grad school in Amsterdam and reuniting with that handsome Dutch guy I met in Finland a year earlier. Yep! It’s been FOUR YEARS since I moved to my favorite city and since Christian and I moved into our cozy Amsterdam apartment (we have since added a cat and an obscene amount of travel pics to that apartment too).

I never thought I could love Amsterdam more than I did then, but I love Amsterdam more than ever before. Celebrations are in order!

Here are some of my favorite Amsterdam photos from over the years…and those canals still get me every damn time!

{Summer}

{I love this picture. It was taken on a beautiful summer night at a canal-side pub to celebrate the first night in our apartment!}

{Amsterdam summer nights are my FAVORITE! Well maybe tied with summer nights in California :)}

{A fine August afternoon when we picked up Christian's boat. Result? 45-minute downpour during it's maiden voyage...home sweet holland, right?}

{Sitting on the canal with friends...definitely my favorite Amsterdam pastime!}

{Fall}

{Fall has come and Christian's cleaning the leaves out of his boat!}

{Winter}

{Jack's first snow :)}

{Walking on frozen water and climbing on bridges in Vondelpark}

{Walking on the canals!!!!}

{Spring}