De Westertoren Amsterdam

... to life. Though the museum was extremely sad it was definitely worth the visit. Katherine, Sarah and I then grabbed lunch as a "pick me up" from the museum and we spent about 2 hours sitting around just chatting and enjoying the warmth of the cafe we sat in. Unfortunately it rained almost the entire trip so most of our time was spent indoors to save ourselves from the cold, wet outdoors.
After lunch we headed back to the hostel where I proceeded to take a ...

... beer drinking habits and their esteemed knowledge of the brewing specifics of Heineken. I can hardly wait for the report. The tour kicked off at 4:45, so we had some time to kill. We went back to the hotel to do - ugh, laundry. Hedid washing in the sink, Steve rinsing in the bathtub. One of the neccessary evils of this trip. The tour finally started in the hotel restaurant downstairs. 27 travelers and our tour guide Jennifer. We ...

... expect everyday to return to Canada and start working again. We miss our family and talk about them a fair bit but at the same time we are enjoying our time and we are learning a lot about the world and about ourselves. We have also started to pick up a bit of Dutch (it's not that difficult really), and we are getting a new perspective about Virginia's Dutch relatives in Canada. Monday we are flying to Madrid. If we don't get to update the blog again, then tot ziens! to everyone.

... We walked all over downtown looking through the hundreds of souvenir shops. We stopped and watched some guys who were dressed up like Poseidon and the mask there in Dam Square. After that we split up and I took a guy named Scott through the Red Light District for a bit of window shopping. We returned to the hotel after we had lunch at a small ...

... head towards some home stores (pans, plates, tea kettles, etc.) that were listed in our travel guide. Along the way we saw some of Amsterdam's infamous "brown cafes" (The Dutch government has a different attitude toward marijuana and has legalized it which is quite different than most other goverments in the world.), some excellent looking Dutch waffles and pasteries (yum!) in little bakery ...

... explanation of who they would use them on, and how. The sun was starting to go down by the time we left there, so we went for a nice walk along one of the canals. Our walk took us to this big ship looking museum, and we watched the sun going down over the Amsterdam skyline. Absolutely beautiful. We walked back to the hostel then to get ready to go out. When we got back to the hostel, we met this girl who was in our room. Her name was Sarah. She told us she ...