A cute little girl and some magical, musical steps
While Paul and I were heading towards town this morning, on a walk during which we resolved to have no direction and literally just follow the wind, we saw a sweet little girl in a red jacket, about 3-4 years old.She was running next to her father and laughing, but when she saw us smiling at her she quickly turned shy and buried her nose in the back of her father's legs - I LOVE it when kids do this, because I actually remember feeling that way as a child! It was like, why are they smiling at me? I must be doing something weird! Little did I know that people must have thought I was just cute...
Anyway, as she and her father walked along the park right outside Amsterdam's huge Rijksmuseum (next to the Van Gough) she suddenly stepped on some magical square stones in the ground...there were 9 arranged in 3x3 rows, and each time one stepped on one, it made a particular musical note!
It's hard to describe, but I love stuff like that. It is so simple, yet it brings so many people joy. There were no signs around this area of the ground to denotate that this was there; you simply had to stumble upon it, or in our cases watch someone else discover it.
Of course, the cute girl laughed and frolicked around this area for quite some time, which amused her father and us to no end. There is something so bonding about children, similar to pets I suppose - when I see someone walking with a child or dog, they are immediately more approachable!
Things like that can make my day when i'm travelling alone; this time, with Paul, it was really great just to be able to share in the moment. As Paul said, if he was a major of a big city, he'd put stuff like that all around - I concur! | posted by Cheryl, 11/12/2005 07:46:00 AM
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