A group of us went to Amsterdam this last weekend. We had a great time, it was a little cold for my liking but there were so many Christmas decorations, it was great! the first day we just walked around the city to check things out, unfortunately our hostel was pretty nasty but it had a good location, so what can you do. there were six of us this weekend. we didn't get there until around dinner time, so as soon as we put our stuff down in the hostel we headed to dinner. Sarah and Claire and Bryce's flight had arrived earlier so they had found this good Mexican place for dinner, so we just figured we would head there. needless to say sarah is not so good with directions and actually had taken us to an entire other part of town. we just wandered and found a place for dinner. we were all pretty exhausted so we headed to bed after walking around after dinner. the next morning we got up and headed to this bakery for breakfast on our way to the anne frank house. the bakery was really good! we got the the anne frank house pretty early so there wasn't too much of a line, so we got in pretty fast. this museum was really neat. very creepily real feeling. we actually walked through doorway that had been blocked by the bookcase that she had described and we walked through the attic that she had been living in. throughout the whole attic were quotes from her diary explaining everything, they had done a really nice job with it. they also had a video of her dad, that was really sad, being that he was the only one of the family that made it through the concentration camps he found her diary and it was really neat to hear his side of what she had said. i have nothing but good things to say about the museum! from the museum we headed to lunch and then to the heinekein brewery! we were all soo excited! the tickets were only 10 euros for the 2 hour long tour and 2 free beers! so great! this brewery was really neat, i took so many pictures, they did a really nice job with this. and of course the beer was good!!! then it was shower time and of course dinner time. this time we actually tried again to find the mexican restaurant and with me directing, i was so proud!, we found it! only unfortunately it was booked for the whole night! so once again we just walked around and we found this brazilian food place that was pretty good. after dinner we headed to check out the red light district, we couldn't leave without seeing this district at night! as we walked around it was insane! there were girls in bra's and underwear just hanging out dancing in front of doors with red lights behind them. so odd and there were so many sex shows and sex shops...only in amsterdam! we had some laughs there, but unfortunately there are no pictures allowed or else i would have shared it with you guys!
me and christen are headed to Berlin this weekend and we are so excited they are known to have the most amazing "christmas markets" that are outdoors with horse carriages and SNOW!!! im so excited! can't wait to see all of you, love all of you!! hope you had a great thanksgiving. 2 weeks until i come back to AMERICA!!!!
