have fun Millet,
the wife and I had a tiny wedding and went to Europe for our honeymoon (2-weeks). We flew in and out of Amesterdam. Wonderful people, beutiful architecture, museums, and the farmers market right by the main canal was filled with flowers, plants, seeds, etc. The flight part of your trip, I do not envy though.
The whole thing is a "research trip", for tax purposes, right?
-Ethan