"I amsterdam"
We left our hostel this morning to catch a 5:30am train and worked on our essays for the six hours that we spent across three trains. I'm happy to say that they are coming along well! (I figure you were concerned). We arrived at our hostel around 11am where I saw my first "no dope" sign. It's also in dutch, "no hasj." I thought it was a joke at first but then it occured to me that it was probably real. We've seen them a few other times since. As we left the hostel and walked towards town we immediately passed a few sex shops and a bunch of bike rental places. In case you didn't know, there are quite a few bikes in this town ;) And by quite a few I mean there are more bikes than cars or boats.
We walked around hoping to kill time before a bike tour when it started raining. I think it's the third day it's legitimately rained since we left London so we weren't too upset about it. It rains here something like 200 days out of the year anyhow. There are quite a few canals here but they aren't used nearly as much as in Venice! It's all about the bicycles around here. They're very serious about their biking lanes. After a few hours of shopping we showed up to the bike tour spot but unfortunately it was fully booked!
We took another stroll in search of wifi and found a nice little bakery. I was craving brownies because I kept thinking about Eurotrip (the film) so it was a perfect opportunity. No, it was not a has brownie. Brendan found a cool comedy club/bar/restaurant on his tablet and so we walked over there to get tickets where we met a cool Alaskan girl who went to Emerson for a bit before going to work in Qatar. Now she is a student in Amsterdam! Anyways, we chatted with her for a bit and got the tickets. After some dinner back at the hostel and a little bit of work we headed back to the comedy club for a great show! Apparently Seth Myers was once a comedian at this place. It's called Boom Chicago and it put on a really great improv/partially scripted show! If you're ever in Amsterdam you should consider it for sure.
The show let out around 10pm at which point we took a lap around the red light district just so we could say we saw it before heading back to the hostel for the night. We're going to have a fairly early morning tomorrow (although not 5:30am thankfully) but I'm looking forward to meeting Brendan's family friends in Belgium! They have kindly offered to take us in for one night and two days. Thanks for reading!
5:30am: watching the sun rise.
I love these train rides!
Tons of turbines in Germany.
Amsterdam is known for their flowers (left). I liked this photo minus the BK sign... (right).
So many bikes on the left! And those are flower shops on the right.
So many people in front of this sign all the time hah. That's the rijksmuseum in the background.
Canal
The restaurant/bar/comedy club
The stage. The seating was dinner theater style.
On our walk at night we saw this crazy carnival in the center of the city.
Canal at night. Unfortunately, a little blurry.
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