Family reunion over kipsticks and kaassouffle

Today, my parents are coming to town. Totally coincidentally, they were going to overlap with a separate trip for a few days, so we coordinated to spend time together during their stay. Derek and I left our cozy B&B and hopped on a tram to West Amsterdam, where we've rented an apartment on Geuzenkade road.

When my parents arrived, shocked from the warm weather, they traded out their long pants and sweaters for shorts and short sleeves. They were met with cold Heineken and stroopwafels before we headed downtown. We took them by Central Station where we encouraged them to get food from the hot vending machines. At Smullers fast food joint below ground, we had a kipstick (gehakstaaf), which was like a chicken nugget rod, and my parents shared a kaassouffle, a cheese pocket. I had my mother put the change in and extract the snacks.

We wandered around the canals, taking pictures and visiting places we've already seen, showing my parents around. They tried the frites and visited the Cheese Inn. We had dinner once again at Cafe de Jaren, but the breeze made it a little too chilly sitting on the terrace. We came across Rembrandtplein (square) where a dozen soldiers from Rembrandt's famous Night Watch painting are frozen in time around his statue.