Today was our first big day in Amsterdam. We first went to the Rijksmuseum, one of the largest museums in the world. We went inside, and there were hundreds of amazing paintings from several Dutch painters, the most notable was Rembrandt. At the museum, we saw one of the paintings that I really like, called “Still Life with a Silver Jug and Porcelain Bowl,” by Willem Kalf.
What makes this painting interesting is the detail put into the lemon (Citroen in Dutch.) One of the big tests for art students at the time was seeing if they could accurately paint a lemon, because they are the hardest fruit to paint. Willem Kalf shows incredible skill by not only showing a lemon skin, but the inside of the fruit as well, which was even harder to paint. 
After we went to the museums today, we got to find our way back to our hotel, around 2 miles outside of the city. We first went on the team inside the city, which was really fun, and then went on the metro, which was my first time doing so.