Anecdote:
Matt and I had dinner with a GSB’s brother in Amsterdam on evening. As we are walking out of the restaurant and Matt is paying, I grab a large individually wrapped mint. I open it and ask the cashier, “This isn’t a roofie (date rape drug) is it?” Without missing a beat the cashier replies, “Yes, it will come into affect in 3 hours when you are far away from here so we don’t have to deal with you. We put the Queen’s face on it so you know it came from the clever Dutch.” The mint did have the Queens face printed on the mint, but no side effects (except for good breath) came about. Best Hollander ever.
The first day we got there Matt and I relaxed in our new apartment with our hosts. We rented a bedroom from a two-bedroom apartment, and shared it with a nice married couple.
After a little R&R, Matt and I were off to explore the city. Our gracious hosts loaned us bikes, so we could explore Amsterdam the way it was intended.
On Friday night, Matt was sick of just talking to me (jk) so we decided to sign up for a Red Light District Pub Crawl. We participated in a pub crawl in Queesntown, NZ but the participants were underage Americans - so it was a tad lame. This Pub Crawl was a tad more exciting. We met people from all over the world, and partied hardy - pics on FB.
Our first tourist site was the Van Gogh museum. The building was small, but the collection was divine. They allowed you to get right up next to the pictures to where you could see each brush stroke. They did not, however, allow you to take pictures of any paintings.
We visited the Anne Frank House as well.
After the museum, we happened upon an interesting sign advertising Amsterdam’s new slogan.
We went to the tourist town that had windmills, wooden shoe factory and a cheese farm. We were able to walk around and sample the dairy - plus Matt and I were able to try on cool shoes too.
Amsterdam was an inexpensive fun place with great canals and great people! We didnt see any tulips, but maybe next time :)
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