Damn! I miss Amsterdam!!

June 24-26:
So my work was where I wanted it to be so I was up for a last minute trip!! And no place better

than AMSTERDAM for some new experiences and fun!! : )  I especially jumped on the trip because a

coworker of mine (Ruslana) was going there as well and was meeting up with UW grads so I it would

be awesome to travel with some new people! and it was! 

1st day:
Took a crazy train from Stuttgart with like 5 train changes and arrived at 1am in Amsterdam....So

what do 4 tired people (Jeff, Nicole, Adam and myself) do at 1am in crazy Amsterdam... well the Red

Light District of course lol... and yes it was quite different! It was red, full of men AND WOMEN

(not the working ones) and of course the others ... It was weird because it seemed like most people

were just there for the show and window shopping.. why in hell would u take a stroll on a friday

night through that part of the city... don't get it!! but of course some others were there for

other reasons!... It is pretty controlled and yes u hear some weird comments here and there lol (

not going to write them since my mommy reads my blog word for word hehe :) ).  I think I went

through all these emotions surprised, flabergasted, shocked, curiousity, grossed out, embarrased,

mortified for the women, aggitated and determined to dress the women ... the men will probably have

different emotions... *sigh.. anywhoo so we strolled around saw lots of *shops and tried to find a

place to sleep ; ) and we found a cozy warm spot and parked it!

Slept 1.5 hours before being woken up by British hooligans (alright they were hilarious and drunk

but still) who kept talking and talking about this and that. *um.. stopping there

Split up at the train station after getting Ruslana and had *tea and went shopping ... lost Jeff in

a department store and had the personals call him to the desk but no luck the man was kidnapped..

so off we left to our hostel then lol... no worries we had a meeting spot for 6pm the house was in

the outskirts of Amsterdam and was BEAUTIFUL.  It was an estate how being rented out to travellers

and yes blew me away.  The room was gorgeous, we had a fully equipped and stocked fridge, tea

galore, drinks galore, beautiful antique furniture and u will not believe this... Allll along the

house instead of pebble stones on the ground guess what the lady had instead??? SHE HAD ACTUAL

SHELLS ... like realll shells all over the garden and walkway... insane!!! and in the places where

people walked the shells have become crushed and turned in broken small pieces... I cannot even

imagine how much it cost!! the lady too loaded! so got dressed and left again! and took a free

FERRY RIDE ( u jealous now! I know! lol) back to amsterdamn Downtown.  Was reunited with jeffers

and others and had dinner, had *fun and decided to go jam a little.

Oh Ruslana's friends Jack and Jules (i think)... Jules just came back from Greece and works in

Vienna... the man was in love with Greece and yes had me convinced I should hook up with a Greek

woman as well lol... so of course i bought tickets to Greece for my last week trip before going

home! Das STIMTTTT!

So the clubbing did not work but the process to getting to club was more hilarious... and the trip

back after the attempt even more hilarious!.. see I did not know the way back and Jeff had no idea

either and he was rather useless that night!  So after some pushing i decided to break from the

other we were staying with in the hostel and decided to jam with Nicole and Adam.  Well these were

the numerous difficulties encounted: Night bus 186 DOES NOT EXIST, the stop I was describing did

not exist according to the driver : ( ...um...We felt pretty screwed but I told the driver do not

worry i will recognize it ... where did the confidence come from i do not know!) but sure as hell

after asking the driver to slow down at EVERY stop lol and pissing off the entire bus.. I found it

P..something saplain!... oh yeah wer ist die damen!!? After all that came home to a what seemed

like an empty house :( so we sat outside and talked.  The people inside who had been having *fun

thought they were hearing voices and were literally freaking out in their sleep lol jokes

Why u need to go to Amsterdam: it is super dirty in the core and adorable in the outskirts, they

speak English (bonus), the people LOVE canadians and canada, they love their gardens, they have

wicked waffles of all kinds (have to see it to believe it), cheap fallafel and of course happy

happy tourists or people in general who are there just to have an awesome time! Das Stimmt..

Do-E Amsterdam! = Goodbye Amsterdam!!