The butt, brain, throat and left knee are in pain

So continuing with leiden, I did more of the walking tour even though I was getting very cold. I went to the town hall but didn't go inside, but did go to one of the nice churches, pieterskerk, and the citadel which was super cool. Saw the Latin school where rembrandt attended, rembrandt plein where he used to live although his house has since been demolished, and the city gate.then I left leiden for haarlem. You know ive noticed that lots of the street names either have obvious significance or are named after famous people (lots of different rembrandt streets in each city!) But also streets named with canal on them and stuff, make it easy to figure out the history of that street. Unfortunately I don't know a lot of the dutch words so I depend on my walking tours to explain the meaning to me! And while I'm on the subject of things I've noticed..for the texts in museums that are in English (esp the art museums) the English is almost 100% perfect. And they even use big vocabulary words, that I don't even know. I've been using the translating app a lot since I've been here, but also the dictionary cause the dutch seem to know English better than I do! But one thing about the text panels in the museum, sometimes its super high up!! But luckily if its dutch then English, dutch is the top one :-) but like that protestant church in delft, new church, (My first one by the way..and I didn't even realize it was protestant until a worker told me it was because there was no alter) you could go on a computer in the church for more info, but the table was really high, I could hardly reach the keyboard! And it was just like rob and emmys sink and countless mirrors in public bathrooms I've encountered, I couldn't reach!! But anyway back to my day. so I finished my tour and left for haarlem at 3:33 pm. My hands were already numb so that really sucked. My toes soon went too and my face was stinging some of the way. Luckily it wasn't a huge distance! But I wasn't exactly enjoying the ride too much! This was the first freeze so I saw some people on the ice, just standing on it, testing it out. Rob had told me that every year there are several drownings from people who fall in, so if he goes skating on the ice, he brings a rope and a towel! Getting to haarlem was straightforward, no qualms, although my water bottle had frozen so I couldn't drink anything! I arrived shortly after it got dark at 6:26 pm, so I couldn't see much of the scenery when entering the city, but there was this nice avenue of trees with a big mansion like building at the end of it. My hosts lived in the center of haarlem so finding their place was simple cause it was right around the corner from the markt. My distance was 19.33 mi, max 13.3 avg 7.3. When I arrived I needed my host, Hans, to take my helmet off for me cause my fingers were that numb!! And my sim card was waiting for me :-) so I was super happy to have that again!! Then I met his wife and we all chatted and ate dinner. They had just gotten back from a cycling trip in Egypt about 2 days prior! They used warm showers there, as well as many other places they had cycle toured at over the years. They are members of like 4 hosting websites, they told me the name of one in Germany but when I checked it out it sounded elite, so I didn't sign up. I should probably mention they are retired so kudos to them for still being that active! Hans writes for a dutch cycling magazine and his wife (forgot her name) is also involved somehow. They are also really into politics so they were telling me they don't like how in the US, retirement funds are not guaranteed or something like that. Things I don't know about but probably should. Then they showed me their pics from egypt. They took lots of these political cartoons that were either graffitied or printed on paper and posted everywhere.they were about the revolution but some of them were hard to understand cause the text was in Arabic.then I went upstairs to their sons room who was away at college. It was a bit strange cause all of his stuff was still there, and I used his computer. I don't think I would like it if my parents hosted strangers and put them in my room with all my stuff there. But that will never happen so I have nothing to worry about! So soon after I went to bed! Fri Feb 3: so the night before, Hans wife gave me 2 walking tours, one for the history and one for the almshouses, a map of haarlem. So in the morning I went to the tourist info just to see if they had any more self guided tours but they didn't. I left lance at the hosts place and walked around. first tried the frans hals museum and the history of haarlem museum across the st but they didnt open till 11 am and it was around 10 so i walked along the canal until I came to the teylers museum which was some guys collection that has since turned into a museum upon his request in his will and since then the collection expanded. Ok bed now, will do more writing tomorrow (I hope)