We have arrived in Amsterdam! After a
13 hour flight and a connection in Frankfurt, we have reached the Netherlands.
It is extremely cold here for us San Franciscans, although we did spot several
Dutch without jackets. We tried to beat the time change by walking through the city, but the cold and exhaustion was too much. All of us crashed after we returned to the hotel.

We already sent supplies for our entire experiment over to ESTEC about 1 month ago - this amounted to over 17 boxes of lab supplies. We need to rest up and mentally prepare for the first step of the EST.