The Anne Frank House

We were unable to purchase tickets to the Anne Frank house online ahead of time (which is the way to avoid the long lines), so we decided to get there an hour before the doors open in hopes of not being in a long line. It was a good plan as we got there about 8 o'clock, and there were only about 25 or 30 people in front of us. The hour passed quickly as we made friends with the people in front of us in line who were from Orlando. The Anne Frank house tour was very well done, very organized, and very interesting. We walked through the house, where we read short quotes from Anne's diary that were on the walls here and there, watched short videos, and saw a replica of the hidden annex and how it looked when Anne lived there. Today it is empty, as Otto Frank (Anne's father) requested that it be kept empty to reflect the somber tone. On the tour, we saw the actual bookcase that was used to hide the secret annex.