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Lagos, Algarve, Portugal

SORRY its been a while, we just got into Lisbon tonight from the crazy little beach town of Lagos which led to a lot of dead brain cells and a GREAT time. The first day we got there, we discovered power hour...10 euro or 15 dollars for a fabulous meal and all you can drink beer for an hour. AWESOME. But it was also fairly early and led to us passing out until about midnight. When we woke up, we rememebered something. There were signs up advertising a foam party at this huge club right next door to uor hostel every wednesday, and lo and behold, it was WEDNESDAY! So we forced ourselves awake only to learn that the foam party doesnt get really good til like 3 AM, so we went to this one bar called the 3 monkeys which is one of the sweetest bars there. Theres a competition between countries to see who can beer bong the most so Sean took 2 for team canada...making it a whopping 16. Come on Canada. Also, the shy litle Canadian girl that worked there that we met earlier in the day was stripping on the bar and just making out with this random girl. Like this place makes a mess of ppl hahaha so anyway we headed to the foam party " 230 or something and it was sooo fun!! Like the foam came up to your shoulders, seriously. Which made the drunken irish ppl crawling on the floor really creepy cause al of a sudden there was like an arm around your leg and your like WHAT! so it was a great night! The rest of our 6 days in Lagos was spent on various beautiful beaches, enjoying 30 degree weather with a breeze so like PERFECT, sleeping in til noon, and power hour every day. Man i love power hour. Also, the 2nd day Sean went shark fishing which was 70 euro (times everything by 1.5 and youll know what it is in dollars)....and for the 2nd time all season, noone on the boat caught a single shark in the entire 6 horus, so he was pretty bummed...so the next day, all hung over, we set out at 9 AM to gonormal fishing and discovered that mackeral love being caught....so much that i caught 23 mackeral in the 4 hour trip. Thats ALOT. Sometimes id even reel in 2 at once, cause there were two hooks on the lines. It was awesome. And at the end we got to take them home and eat them!! wooo! Sean filited them btu i had to clean them which was GROSS. Just like get all the blood off them and stuff, but all the guts were gone by then thank god. UGH. But, we filleted, cleaned, and seasoned like 30 fish between the 2 of us, which made up 2 MASSIVE meals, and some we couldnt finish. It was awesome. Also, the owner of the hostel was an awesome portuguese guy who said that the loacl ppl always ate a salad made from a roasted, skinned pepper, 2 cloves of garlic, crap loads of olive oil and lemon juice with their fish...and man, as simple as it sounds, it was awesome. Cammy, I know youll want me to show you how to make it, its great. Speaking of good food, the one day we didnt eat fish or do up the power huor, we went to this awesome restaurant called NANABAH...WOW. Had a turkey burger grilled with a caper lemon white wine aoli or something, with lots of garlic, HUGE, AMAZING, and with fries. And Sean had this rude boy burer which is 2 of the most massive patties youll ever see, all the condiments and an egg to top it off...it was literally the size of hsi head...but he finished it somehow. I guess the record was when 2 irish guys each ate 2 of those each, plus all the fries that came with the burgers. Guarenteed they puked after.
One of the things Lagos is well knwon for are its little caves all along the beaches, so oe of the days we took a 2 hour trip for 15 euros and saw a bunch of these litle caves, did some swimming in the FREEZING ocean....so cold, my legs like went numb, but it was hot out so it wasnt so bad. Our nights mostly consisted of the following: Supper and power hour, buying booze, predrinking on the rooftop patio at our hostel with some randoms we´d met, playing drinking games, getting kicked out of the patio at 11 cause it closed, drinking inside til we got the boot at 12, going to 3 monkeys for some CHEAP drinks, people dancing on bars, then either passing out at 2 when it closed or giong to one of the various other bars and clubs that are open until 5. Althuogh we never made it til 5. I blame power hour. The last day in Lagos we thought weºd go to this bigger city, Faro, for the day....but we were hung over so we didnt leave lagos til 3, getting to Faro at 515....Only to find out that the last bus back to Lagos left Faro at 530....so we hopped back on the exact same damn bus to go the 2.5 hours back to Lagos and never saw a freakin thing in Faro. Soooo shitty. Bus oh well! Anyway, all in all, Lagos was an awesome place that Id love to go back to...soo many ppl we met there meant to stay for a few days and have ended up living there for a few months cause they love it so much. Its no wonder why! Well i suppose that basically tells all there is to tell of Lagos. Were now in Lisbon in an AWESOME hostel, and our room looks just like a hotel but decorated cuter, its just sooo awesome. Tomrrow at 4 Pm we leave on our 18 hour train to PARIS for 3 days, one of which weºll spent in DISNEYLAND, then its London for 2 (were gunna fly from paris to london cause we found a really cheap flight), and then its basically homeward bound. So I shall write about Paris next time!! bYbye!!

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Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

ahoyhoy!! So we have been having quite the time in spain, and i was soooo excited to write about it once i got to gibraltar, which is when i found out internet there costs like a gazillion dollars. so now im on the spanish side of the border typiung for CHEAP again. I love Spain.
Anyway, Granada. We caught an overnight train here, which was long and gruesome, with a clinically insane man singing and screaming all 12 hours of the way, and seats that didnt recline, but HEY we made it there at 745 Am in one piece. So we dropped out bags off at the hostel, and got straight to sight seeing. In Granada, the main attraction is the Arabic quarters, called the Alhambra. The Arabs lived here for hundreds of years and set up the most gorgeous gardens which are HUGE, and built shitloads of castles, tours where they sometimes fought in war, palaces, and so on. It took us FOREVER to see everything. There were fountains everywhere, because in that time, water was so hard to come by that it was more precious than gold, so the more fountains you had, the richer you were. All the walls were decorated by thousands of handpainted little tiles, and flowers from around the world, with crazily trimmed hedges that looked sooo cool. It was just so sweet. Anyway, that took us til about 3 oclock or something, so we went back to the hostel, checked in and yada yada. We then asked where a good place was to go for Tapas (which is basically just appetizers of all kinds, which theyre well known for in Spain)...we got a recommendation, went, ordered a beer, and quickly realized that you get FREE tapas with every drink you order, and that the free tapas they serve you get better and better with each drink you buy. So we ended up spending the eqivilent of like 6 bucks canadian each, and were STUFFED full of food and had 2 drinks each. So we walked it off wandering around Gibraltar and found some shopping streets, but we already shopped SO MUCH in Barcelona....so I onñly bought a few things there....i love clothes. Then we checked out the Cathedral in Granada, which was really nice, all white walls with gold embelishments...pretty sweet. Then it was time for more tapas. We ordered a couple sangria at another place for 2.50 euro each, and they gave us this MASSIVE plate of food. 2 ham bagel sandwiches, a massive amount of this pasta salad that had tuna in it and spicy mayo ion top, and a bunch of fries. Like right on! but heres the thing....this night, there was an all you can eat supper at our hostel for only 4 euro.....sooooooooooo we went back a nd did that too.
We scored 2 free drinks each at the bar, because everyone gets 2 as a welcome drink juts for staying there. Then we ate the unlimited supper, which was couscous with veeges, a really good moroccan sauce, and chicken, with a salad that had like melon and a mustard something dressing. Good stuff. Ended up splitting a pitcher of mojito, and a pitcher of Sangria. We were about to go to bed whe we met another couple and the girl goes to Sean..HEY, you look like Nick Carter!! Which resulted in a backstreet boys singoff to see who knew the most songs without stpoping, and of course i won.....infacgt, i won so much that when they couldnt think of anymore songs i gave them each one to sing, TWICE, and i STILL won. YEAH. So anyway, they knew of a sweet tapas place, so we went for a few sangrias and ate some marinated garlic mushrooms with a baquette and some olives with cured ham sandwitches. Yummmmm. Its crazy, all the tapas bars are juts packed shoulder to shoulder, every single one of them! And the locals are so used to getting free tapas they just leave it there, they dont even want it, even if its something realllllly good. Its tempting to steal it from them, but i was too full anyway.

The next day we went on a free walking tour and discovere that Granada is like, some crazy hippy town or someting. Ppl actually live in CAVES here. CAVES. Which are sweet because theyve now made doors and windows, and dont need AC because theyre 19 degrees all year round (even tho when we were there it was 40 degrees outside....did i mention i got a bit of sunstroke the first day? I did, it sucked!)...But SOO many ppl live in these, theres like 2000 caves or something. And theyre free to live in, which is why so many ppl live there. 2000 caves! And granada is the size of Saskatoon, almost exactly. Just nuts. And there are soo many arabic buildiungs there, actually almost all of them are arabic, not spanish. Even all the churches in Granada used to be mosques (because again, the arabic people lived there for a lonnnnnnggg time), but they were all converted when the catholics came. I also learned that Granada means pomegranite, and that they have song bird fights....They put song birds in cages, 1 male in each cage, and a female in a separate cage, and then release them. The male birds literally dance, and look like theyre doing the flamenco to impress the female, and she choses the winner. There is like betting around this, and people fight over their birds and are like OK GO HOSE GO!!! DANCE!!!! haha. Crazy Spanish.

Anywho, then we caught a train to Sevilla at like 430 this day, and got to seville at about 8 oclock. Sevillas awesome!! We asked the girl at our hostel where we could find a flamenco show that night, and she showed us one on the map at this place called Carbonarea, which was free and was danced not by a professional, but an actual Gypsy lady. It took us FOREVER to find! its meant to be a local place, and we had to ask ALOT of locals where to find it, because we got lost in side streets and residensial streets, or so we thought. We were acvtually goign the right way, youd just never know. We finally found it after walking right past it twice, because there was no sign on the door. It could have been a regular apartment from the outside. but ocne you got in it was HUGE, cheap drinks, full of people, awesome music being played everywhere by guitarists and singers jamming out, just awesome. And we made it just in time. The show was realllly good, even though it was only 15 minutes long. Flamenco has to be THE most intense form of dance ive ever seen, like its jsut crazy, so much foot work almost like clogging or step dancing or some version of tap, lots of percussion work between the dancer, singer and guitar player, its just so cool. Dont worry, I took videos. We pretty much packed it in after the show cause it was like 1 and i was really sick anyway (ive been pretty sick alot of the trip but im getting better now)

Day 2 in Sevilla was fun too. We checked out a few squares, and checked out the 3rd largest cathedral in Europe (on this trip, weve seen St peters which is the biggest, and St pauls in London which is the 2nd, so now weve seen teh tpo 3). Noone was allowed in unless they were going to the mass tho, because it wa s asunday, so of course we pretended to go to mass, ran around and took some pictures, and then booked it outta there before we got yelled at. We also checked out their Arabic quarter....Granada and Sevilla were 2 of the 3 major Arabic kingdoms in like, the 1100s or something. This place was gorgeous too!! The gardens were amazing with soo many fountains, a MAZE garden, wihch we got lost in for a bit, and even a peacock running around somewhere in there. There were all kinds of trees, which mdae it alot easier to enjoy because it shaded that freaking 40 degree sun, and the palaces were juts amazing. Soooo much detailing on the wall, I cant imagine how long it would have taken to put it all together. And every room was detailed differently, all by hand. Very cool. We spent quite a bit of time there. On the way back i bought a couple dresses, then we got ready for the night..We tried this Spanish soup called Gazpacho, which is served chilled and is made from tomatoes, olive oil, lemon and garlic, and is absolutely amazing!! it is sooo freakin good! Then we tried finding the bullfighting ring, which we did, but only for bad news. Every Sunday in June, there is a bullfight, and we thought we weresooo lucky to be there ona sunday for that reason....well guess what, we were there the first Sunday of July. The schedules change to every Tuesday, and we left on a Monday to Gibraltar. Damnit our luck seriously. So we never even saw a bull fight in spain. Im actually pretty choked, even though I know theyre gory and disgusting, I really wanted to see one. But whatever I guess, oh well. So we booked another flamenco show, one of the most well known in Sevilla, for 15 euro. We went early and got front row seats, although it was a small venus with only 3 rows anyway, but still. This was AMAZING. OMG. Like, OMG. This time there was a guy and a girl, and when they danced together it was like....just so fucking good. Its like the most passionate form of dance ive ever seen it was just something else, I could not believe what these people were capable of doing. And the singer was amazing, and the guitar player was just something else all together. Its no wonder this show was so well known, like WOW. It was an hour long but felt like only 15 minutes :(. worth every cent and then some. The spanish culture is so sweet.
So after the show we got some drinks and bought tapas...yes, it was hard to actually BUY tapas after getting used to the free stuff, btu they were still really cheap. We had this spicy chorizo picante sandwich, more gazpacho, some crazy baked egg dish with spicy salsa type sauce, and these AMAZING muscles in some tangy spicy red delicious sauce. WOW, seriously. But it was then time to go home to catch the bus in the morning to Gibraltar.

Gibraltar. What can i say? Sean loves it, I was bored of it after the half day we spent here. Although I did find an adorable skirt in one shop for fairly cheap. Well OK, for those of you who dont know, Gibralter is a tiny little British colony, population 30,000, with the worlds smallest airport, all on one tiny tiny island on the southern tip of europe, where you can see the 14 miles across to North Africa (Morocco, to be exact). It IS cool for a day trip, i should clarify. Suddenly they use the POUND not the EURO...although the piounds here are different, they say ¨the governemtn of Gibraltar * on them and are like pink on one side and blue on the other...but theyre worth the exact same as the british pound, and both are used on the island. Sean was really looking forward to it here because it advertised you could go fishing wheneveryou wantecd.....so we wlked down to the quay or the pier, only to find out that you need 6 people to go, and that only usually happens on weekends, which we are definitely ont here on. So I feel really bad for him cause hes not gunna get to go, and hes been looking forward to that since we left basically. So Well try to find something in lagos instead. Last night (our first night in Gibraltar) we did find a Casino.......which meant i was forced to watch poker for abuot 2 hours......Sean cleaned up, so i figured aw hell ill spend....20 pounds on black jack. I lost it all. But he won and felt bad for me so I atleast scored a bloody mary out of the deal. I hate gambling, im just not a lucky person. So he made about 200 candian dollars....all of which he went and lost today while i was having a nap. Boo. Stupid casinos. Anyway oh well. So today we woke up early, and went up the ROCK (you see, Gibraltar is really a HUGE rock....which everything is built at the base of)...we saw some sweet tunnels, one of which was a natural tunnel and very cool, with lots of stuff hanging from the ceiling, and it went down really deep. They actually ended up building a concert hall in the bottom of the cave, where they sometimes put on special concerts with orchestras and stuff. Then we saw the MONKEYS!!! Gibraltar is famous for their apes on the hill...it was cool cause they all juts had their babies, so there were these like 2 pound tiny monkeys running around eveyrwhere and like chasing eachother, but theyre still really clumsy. Some of the apes are like, pretty big, like past my knee whe theyre sitting....then there was this one smaller one, but not a baby, and it defintely just jumped right on my back and started playing with my bra strap and my sunglasses...it was cute but holy shit, i was freaked out at first hahaha. Then it jumped on Seans arm, and sean kept moving his arm back and forth and the monkey was having fun cause they were playing, but then it lost its balance and just tsraight up fell right off it wa sso funny, it tried grabbing at sean o the way down, it was just like so desparate hahaha. I got a video, it was sweet. Then we saw some more caves that they used in battle when the Spanish were fighting to get Gibraltar back and stuff, and it was sweet. Then we ate the Pizza hut buffet...Im proud of myself, i only had 3 pieces, plus cra`ploads of salad instead of 14 pieces like Sean ate. GROSS.

Now we´re in La linea, the border city, and jsut finished booking our bus outta here for tomorrwo at 730 AM. ugh, 730 AM. BUT THEN ITS OFF TO LAGOS!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! We have to bus back to Seville, and then to Lagos from there, but no biggy!! Well I better get goin here, but Illlllll write in Lagos!! Adois!

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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and Canary Islands

WOW this place is sweet but we haven´t gone too far from the hostel...we,re staying in a hostel called KABUL, its right off the main street here which is called la ramblas.....its the biggest party hostel, by the time we arrived in barcelona at like 1130 PM (there was alot of confusion with the trains getting here, and so we wound up taking like 6 different trains instead of 2 and were travelling for 15 hours...oh well) but we got to the hostel, and it was just PACKED with people. 2 euro pints, which is like 3 dollar pints so not bad at all. Anyway, we met up with another guy from contiki...he was supposed to meet us at 930 but obviously with the trains we couldnt make it and LUCKIL we found some crappy wifi at one train station so sean emailed him on facebook from his itouch and he got it...LUCKY....so we emailed him once we got there, and he got it last minute, and showed up at our hostel and we partied til 5 Am....it was a monday night but oooh wells we found a sweet club just a 2 minute walk from our hostel...it was awesome soo fun,, but drinks were expensive, so we went onto the street and bought 1 euro ccans of beer from these guys that walk around on the streets just selling it. Then I got drunk and hungry and bought a cheap sandwich from another street vendor for a euro who looked EXACTLY like russel peters and kept singing weird songs from the 80s....so we all danced to his weird ass songs and he loved us...so i bought a samosa from him to. Why not, i was drunk and hungry. It was cold...but delicious (at the time)....then all these north african hookers started coming out and we didnt know this one girl was one, and she kept staring at us, so we´re like...what do u want? And she grabs seans junk and goes ¨I WANT THIS BABY¨...I was like BITCH THATS MY BOYFRIEND!!! Shes like Oh madam im sorry....then starts grabbing at daves shirt and goes how about him? Im like NO HES MY BOYFREIND TOO!!! So she left. There were many more after this, but she was the most ...agressive. so that was night 1...

.slept in til like 11 the next morning, then headed to the main train station to book our trains for all areas in spain...we waited in line for an hour to book them but its done now so its ALL GOOD. The rest of the day we basically just exlpored la ramblas, found a really sweet market just down the street with fresh fruit juices so I got a pina colada fruit joice which was delicious annnd then went back to the hostel...you see, the night before a drunken aussy cowboy had told us that there were u2 tickets for the next night (this day) and we thought he was cracked out cause he said they were 30 euro....so we asked the ppl at the hostel where we could get some, but they told us they were all sold out...LUCKILY 2 guys that were staying at the hostel overheard us and happeend to get ditched by a group of 10 and were stuck with 10 extra 95 euro tix....but that was too much for us....so they gave us 2 for 95 euro!!! Good seats too!! So we went to U2 BABY!! It was AMAZING. It was held in a stadium that holds over 100,000 ppl, the biggest one in all of europe. HOLY SHITlike sooo big. SnowPatrol opened nfor thme and man theyre fantastic too....but U2was just something outta this world...like literally had this massive round screen around the stage (but above the stage obviously) and on it they webcammed with the international space station which is located in the sky.......just amaznig, and it was legit, it was cutting out and stuff, and tey were floating around, and having a converstaion with U2....and on one part of the screen it was being interpreted(typed out)in spanish and theyd like backspace and stuff when they typed something wrong, like it was just sooooo cool!! then there was a presentation on AIDS on the screen and they came back out and sang one love one life or whatever. ....what was weird is that they screwed it up, and i could kinda tell something was off....and then bono goes.....Ok guys, just stop the music, just stop....and they all stopped...and he goes, ok and VERSE...and they picked it back up...i was really weird but a really cool thing to see at the same time..just the most amazing concert...and he had a spanish jersey made for him that said bono on the back, and said this was the only city hed be doing that because they have UNICEF on the front and not just the name of some random company, but a charity...it was like soo touchign like it was just amazing. It was a round stage in the middle of the stadium with like plateforms branching out and amazing lites....Just WOW like WOW. its no wonder theyre such legends. Soo that was our night and was it evver an awesome one!!

Now, on to the best day of the year...CANADA DAY!!! Happy belated canada day everyone by the way!! We started the day off by shopping our asses off. Awesome. Spent soo much money but got So much stuff because by chance, july 1st is like theyre boxing day or black friday....so all the clothes that were usually 30 or 50 or more euro were eiether half price or less, or like 5-10 euro....so needless to say, i threw out some stuff and just replcaed the shit out of it. I fond a really cute little souvenier for mom, got myself 2 colors of contact lenses....light grey and a saphire turquoisey color....new shoes, a few new shirts, a couple dresses....a necklace...yup, gotter done. Sean got a whole bnch of new stuff from his new favorite store....H AND M!!! Love that place holy crap like they were having a 5 euro sale, so got sooo much stuff (both of us did!)....Anyway, after we were shopped out we came back to the hostel for the free supper they serve everynight...I had a chorizo sausage dish and he had pasta with tomato sauce...it was acually really good....Then we picked up a bottle of vodka and ALMOST got to business when I realized I had to call Cammy to sing her the reel she usually plays at contests cause she forgot how it went, but she wasnt home so I talked to dad....but before that I had to goto reception to ask how to use the phone, and when i got there, there was this really messed up drooling irish dude...im like WTF....so then I go back to get on the phone, and he comes up and starts hitting buttons....then calls me American, sings a song he named Happy Canadia Day, and said if I didnt give him my new ring, he wouldnt leave me alone...but like just kdding around, said I could have it back when I was off the phone...so im like BAH fine,so that was all good....so i went to the room where him and his buddies were and theyre all really nice and really drunk hahaha and half canadians, but he´s gone MISSING. So they look for him in the bathroom where hed clearly gone but he wasnt there either...noone knows where he went...so im like FUCK whatever, so i went back to my room to meet up with Sean, and I tell him and this girl from edmonton about what happened. But also, everyone in that room was predrinking, so the 3 of us head there with vodka in hand, and lo and behold they greet us with ÄRE YOU SINGLE¨and theyre very own version of Happy Canadia Day. Then the messed up guy walks in, grabs out vodka and says he gets a shot and i get my ring...so we like pour it down his throat and he just hicchups and keeps singing...ahahahahahha. Then this one dude that reminds me of Travis Brewster says...hey ladies wanna see how many pushups i can do? Noone replys....so he just drops and does 20 and bows. Like you go buddy. ! So anyway then us and 3 other canadians head out to this shooter bar called CHAPETOS...WOW. Its teeny tiny, lke the size of my kitchena nd living room but good lord...there are THOUSSANDS of shots to choose from, all only 2 euros ....so we did about 10 wihtin about 45 minutes....OOPS....We also all did the infamous MONACA LEWINSKI SHOT....where they pour a beer through a dildo, and well, thats that. it was pretty interesting, and lots of blackmail pictures cause we ALL did them...even sean. there was one called the b urnt marshmallow that astes like a REALLY strong marshmallow...then they light the bar on fire and you actually get marshmallows on a stick to roast! Theres ones that you take out of half an orange peel. it was sooo fun! anyway, halfway back to the hostel i had to sit down, and we ended p having to take a cab the 3 blocks back to the hostel...again, oops. Checked out the nxt morning but then went back to bed til 1:00, got yelled at by the maid so just went to the beach, (ths is the 2nd now), then caught our overnight train to granada. we thought the seats would be empty so we didnt book a bed, but the seats were full and ddint recline, so it was a very long 12 hour train ride. Which also involved an insane man in our coach that insisted on slamming on the window and sniging at the top of his lungs...who got screamed at by security atleast 10 times in the first 2 hours....it was a loooong train ride. BUT we´re here now, havent done anything YET, but I have to go so we can get seeing this place!!
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Nice, Provence, France

Why hello! Soo sorry its been a while but ive been too busy tanning. We,re in Nice France the unofficial capital of the french riviera and holy shit; it is GORGEOUS!!! night one was like 4 days ago and we caught our first train successfully and found our FIRST hostel of 3 here...soo nice but really far fro, the beach...but they had €1 beer and €5 massive bottles of sangria at their bar, so we bought one of those and drank it on the rock beaches...strangely enough there is noo sand beaches here; just nice hard beaches made outta rocks...but ive grown to love them, sand can be annoying anyway. So we bqsicqlly just did that on our first night there. Day 2 we moved into a hostel RIGHT beside the beach that cammy suggested to us called Meyerbeer...It was the WORST!! Thanks alot Cammy. hahaha kidding but it totally sucked except of course the location. Sooo we taanned our asses off for the whole morning, ate Subway for breakfast, lunch and supper...it was right across the street from our hostel, and considering our hostels cooking facilities included a microwave and non microwavable plastic plates, it was our only choice hahaha: but i love Subway. That night we checked out the club checkpoint, which is where i was when i found out about MJ dying...sad. Wed already been predrinking a bunch of beer and a bottle of wine tho so I only made it halfway thru my bloody mary, which by the way are no where near as good as caesers. It was an alright bar, mostly english speaking ppl with a pub upstairs and dance floor downstairs. The next day, friday; i have no idea where the freakin brackets are on this computer its so screwed up, anyway, we went to the beach again and slept in...man its nice to not have any real plans after turbo touristing thru europe with contiki!! We checked out this castle in Nicewhich had AWESOME views of the city, then found this club THOR in the old town...kindq the same thing as Checkpoint but bigger but with a really crappy live band haha oh well!! FRIDAY we switched hostels to this much nicer place thats like one tram stop from the beach...did some shopping....I bought this adoerable red dress from H and M and Sean got dress shoes and a tie...why? Cause then we went to the MONTE CARLO in MONACO!!! Ok, so maybe we fell asleep on the bus and ended up in a way different city; but we found another bus and eventually found our wqy to Monaco. The Monte Carlo is GOREGOUS111 holy shit. people were playing Roulette with E500 on ONE NUMBER...Like throwing down ten thousand dollars in just on spin of Roulette. It wqs crazy! i bought 2 chips for €5 each but im a bad guesser and lost that pretty quick. Sean lost €80, so it wqs time for supper at the restaurant attached to the Casino...Yup; ordered 1 cup of water...€5.50, French Onion Soup {delicious] for €13, and a pasta with cream sauce and smoked salmon for €17. Between the tzo of us it was a €80 bill. Oops. Thats almost 130 dollars! So then it was time for gambling. I quickly discovered that slots are a total rip off after it digested my €10 bill in under 2 minutes, so I quit. Sean however decided to throw down €100 on black jack because it was €25 just to play one hand....He was super lucky tho and ended up making €200, so that was sweet...so he bought me a €13 bloody mary...like a 19 dollar drink. WOOO!! it was delicious. so we explored, checked out some more casinos but nothing compared to the Monte Carlo, so ze caught a bus back to Nice at about 1 AM...
TODAY we hit up the beach; i burnt the CRAP out of myself...Oops. Ate subs for breakfast and lunch and probably for supper too...OH and theres an IRONMAN competition going on like the triatholon. its HUGE. it takes up the entire major street here that runs along the beach {we had to walk like 1 KM just to get around it and to the beach}...But there are soo many ppl in it like fro, EVERYWHERE in the world. A Canadian guy came in 2nd for the 25-29 year old division. GO CANADA!!! annnd now seans gambling somewhere, im at the hostel updating this and getting ready and then its our last night out in Nice so its gunna be a good one! Tomorro we head to Barcelona and take 6 trains to get there;;...wish me luck
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Paris, Île-de-France, France

Oook so i believe we left off when we were in switerzerland, which by the way, never got anymore exciting except for my discovery of swiss chocolate which is the best ever. Lindt, toblerobe, u name it. Im getting fat. ANYWAY then we had a freaking LONG driving day to Paris, did a bit of a city tour on the bus and just drove past some sites (we didnt even get there til like 7 PM so we ddint do too much), checked in to the camping hostel, and just had a few beer in the park with the others. OH and as a welcoming present they had escargot for us to eat....i forced myself to try one...and wound up eating 10. Holy shit, they are good you guys. GOOD. The NEXT day though was awesome (yesterday). We drove into the city, and me n sean had to track down a train to NICe FRANCE (because we had to train here today on our own)...so we did that and discovered that if you told the tellers you need to get to a eurail station, they keep giving you free metro passes, so we kept telling them that after we got our train tickets, and visited the notre dam cathedral, which is very cool and has lots of stained glass windows...where QUASIMOTO the hunch back wrang the bells in the tower. I didnt see him though, I think he was out for lunch. Anyway, then we went back to the Eiffel tower, didnt stand in line at ALL (we lucked out and a line was just opening as we walked up to it), believe it or not took the STAIRS to the 2nd level....all 600 and some of them, ate some ham sandwiches for $10 each (they literally had ham and butter...damn u french people), took a crap load of pics, and then caught the elevator up to the very top of the eiffel tower. I almost passed out it was soo high up, but i overcame my fear and it was SWEET! Then we metro'd over to the Louvre (the home of the mona lisa, and also a major part of the davinci code), but it was closed because it was a tuesday...apparently its always closed on tuesdays...but we met up with the group there and got ready in the bathrooms there with the group...and headed off for our FAIRWELL DINNER :(:(:(:(:( It was sad.....but DELICIOUS. We got to chose from escargot, french onion soup (although they just call it onion soup haha), or this vegetable pate crap...it was gross...but i chose the SOUP and it was incredble. The the main course we chose from fish, beef or duck l'orange (leg of duck in a herbed orange sauce with potatoes, stuffed tomato, and spinach)...i took the duck, obviously. Then we had a plate of brie cheese each, and a delicious dessert that was like strawberry or soemthing....that most ppl didnt like so sean ate 5 slices. Sick. hahaha. Oh and did i mention there was unlimited wine??? Well, there was. As soon as you drank a bottle, another would reappear!! WONDERFUL!! a few ppl took part in a wine chugging contest....the winner passed out before midnight. Anyway, after that we all took off to a caberet show (not the moulin rouge, but the nouvelle something, which has had way better ratings)....it was awesome. we all got a half bottle of champaigne, but sean was a luittle drunk and stole a bottle off some other table so we each got more like a full bottle...there were lots of topless dancing girls which the guys liked, and awesome shows during the intermission....And the CAN CAN!!! can you do the can can? It was awesome!! the intermission shows were the most entertaining, like insanely good jugglers, this trippy statue with 2 moving heads which was only one guy but you couldn't tell which head was his, this cracked out slap stick magician who balanced on like 5 or 6 cylinders on top of each other, and was like dancing on them and stuff....nutcase. It was just amazing, i am sooo happy i went!! We then all caught a shuttle back where the winner of the drinking contest (ahmad) attempted to strip for everyone but kept falling over into people it was hilarious! he passed out as soon as we got to the campsite. We all partied til about 4 or something and kept sneaking beer into the bar there....it was the funnest night!! This morning we had to say bye to everyone cause they were headed to the airport or london for the most part...it was soooo sad....I miss eveyrone already! BUT we acught our train to nice in the nick of time (we had to switch over trains in Lyon, france, and only had 5 minutes to do it, and the 2nd train was across the station....JUST made it)...but we're here, it's beautiful, our hostel is great, although we'tre moving to one closer to the beach tomorrow...this place has free internet, free breakfast, cheap laundry, its just awesome!! And cheap too! But we havent really seen muych of the city cause we only got here at 330 or something, and now its almsot 6 (had to do laundry and waht not, and internet of course)...we're gunna go explore soon though! Its gorgeous weather, like 30 degrees or more, so tomorrow the BEACH then some monaco and monte carlo baby!! YEH!!!
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Rome, Lazio, Italy

Why hello friends++ This time, not onlz are the z and y mixed up, the exlcalmation point is now a + and im not sure where to find the real thing. ooooh well. SO lets talk about Rome. That place is fucking sweet. Iäve been there before and I rememered it exactlz the same, but i saw more this time. Also, it was 35-40 degrees the entire time...dont be jealous, thats waz tooooo hot. But i got some funkz tan from the various shirts i was wearing++ Anzwaz so we started in rome with a walking tour with the contiki group...walked past a new monument thats GORGEOUS but the romans hate it cause its not old? whatever man, crayz italians. we checked out the trevi fountain, and the pantheon, which is the most amaying church or temple ive ever seen in mz life....it was built in 900 AD and has had barely any renovations on it, and its outstanding. I guess 500 years ago, michealangelo went there (and he was a VERYY critical artist) and said it was impossible for something to be so beautiful, that it must have been made by angels...totallz. unreal. i have so many pictures. Actuallz, i have ALL the italy pics, cause Sean lost his camera in Prague..oops. But luckilz another contiki group found it and brought it here to swityerland. anywho, that night wasnt a party night, everyone was soo tired from the heat and stuff. day 2 we went on a walking tour with an italian guide that kept sazijng huh after everything, it was annoying but hey, she was italian. We went through this place called the forum, which is the verz first city in the roman empire, located smack in the middle of rome. Its 3000 zears old++ And some of it is still standing++ just unbelieveable, it was super sweet!! FOUND THE EXXLAMATION MARK!!! YES!!! Anzwaz, we did that, checked out the colloseum, which is probablz the most phenominal place on earth, its soooo big and so insane the could have made it 2000 zears ago...i have no idea how thez did that with no real technologz or mechanics or anzthing. Then we walked around a bit after the tour, i bought a D AND G BAG....its multicolors of snakeskin...beautiful. Not real, but beautiful. We went to the Vatican citz, saw St Peters (the biggest basilica in the world where the pope lives and all that) and it was very cool. Then we caught the metro back to our campsite, which was actuallz reallz nice, we stazed in brand new wood cabins with our own room, and onlz shared the bathroom with one other couple....who we walked in on having sex twice now...FUCK thezre the worst. luckilz we rotate who we staz with in every city. Booo them, theyre gross. and dont partz, just screw at inappropriate times. ANYWAZ so me and sean bought a bottle of gin and a box of pine juice and basically got smashed with the rest of the group and went to the club there, which wasnt bad, and wound up hanging out on the curb with various ppl....a random night, yes. Then it was off to FLORENCE!!

Here we checked out a leather presentation, and did our own thing for a bit. We ate lunch...got pesto and a sandwhich, which came to 20 euro, which is like 30 bucks. You paz waz more to sit down...if we got that for take awaz, it would have been 8 euro...12 dollars. damn the italians and their good food!! Then later on we went out for supper on our own, got a bottle of chianti (italian famous wine), got an awesome appetizer (bruschette, chicken liver paste on crostini, and this sausage and cheese mix on crostini), then i had penne in a spicy tomato sauce with bacon and vodka, and sean had this insane pasta that had mussels (still in shell), clams, calamari (Still with tenticles), and a gigantic shrimp on top.....it was alot of wortk but delicious. Then we met up with our group for some good old fashion getting wasted. Thez payed bar prices...us? We bought 2 liters of coke and a 26 of vodka and chugged it on the stairs of a church in the middle of a main square in about a half hour. YES. Then it was karakoke time. I sang stevie wonder and i think ppl thought i ddi prettz good. It was so fun++ ThEN half the group went back to the hostel, but the other half of us went to this massive club...it was a half hour adventure of getting lost, but soooo totally worth it!! Actuallz, it was the same club id been at wjhen i went there in grade 12...what are the chances? Sean defnitelz took the metal of the drunkest person in the building like right awaz....the dancing queen had a whole circle of randoms around him watching him jump everzwhere like a monkez AKA dance like a maniac, falling over and taking people down on the way. It was fucking hilaroius. Anyway i had to pay his waz outta the bar and i pretended to cry so i didnt have to pay mz 12 euro cover (you pay cover on the waz out)...it worked, id dint have to paz it!! WAHOOO!! THen last night we drove here to swityerland, but it was too late to see anytzhing, so partied at the campsite...we had a gothic theme party with 3 other contiki groups...fun but didnt staz long cause im reallz sick++ Slept in this morning, saw a waterfall...thats basically it here, not super interesting+ but i did buy dad his souveneer in a town in switerland called luzern. i think hell like it++ AHH running out of time!! Tomorrow = Paris, then the daz after we¨re on our own baby!!! WAHOOOO!!!

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Munich, Bavaria, Germany

SORRY its beena while, internet here is sooo expesive, like $8 for an hour, so iàve been waiting it out! OK Well, in munich we basically walked around, went toa beer hall called joes i think, and drank 3 steins (liters) of beer, had an awesome meal of cordon bleu and then there were german dancers (one whose boob fell out mid dance and she didnt notice for 5 minutes...i took pictures), german music, and lots of dancing and stuff after that! Then me n sean had our own hostel for that night cause it was our 1 year anniversary, but it was sooo hard to find!! RANDOMLY a girl on our trip had a cousin living in munich, so she literally brought us to the hostel, and it took like a full hour of getting lots on the trains and stuff. we could have NEVER found it!! So munich was cool though!
The next day we travelled to the tyrol state in austria and stayed in a tiny litttle villiage called hopfgarten. Its SO COOL!!!! ppl usually go in winter to snowboard i guess, but its right in the mountains and totally different than everything else so far! when we got there we went ona 12 KM bike ride through the mountains and it was so pretty...we could have gone 25 KM but lets get real here, i dont do that shit. so we biked around town, then had a BBQ lunch (SHNITZEL and salads) then went to a trout farm to go fishing!! I caught the first fish from the 8 of us that went (way before sean even caught one,...yeah baby, my first fish!!)...was a trout in an encolsed trout farm, but WHATEVER. The best part is, for $10 you got a beer, to catch your fish, then they clean it and spice it and cook it for you and you eat it!! it was the best freakin fish i ever ate man. even though the tail was still on. i made them cut the head of, thats just too much. then there was supper at the hotel which was goulash soup, turkeuy shnitzel and apple studel for dessert! i was a dishie, which means i had to clear ppls plates and scrape them off hahaha but we all have to do it eventually at these camping sites were staying at, and now i dont have to do it again so its ALL good!! then that night there was a black and white party at the site, and there was another contiki group there, so like 100 contiki ppl getting wasted. not bad...discovered some ppl on our trip can really work a strippers pole when they get wasted. who knew!!

anyway, the next morning we woke upr eally early and started our bus ride toward venice...on the way, no big deal, we stoped to go WHITE WATER RAFTING!! holy shit! funnest thing ive ever done!! it was soooo scary like we almost tipped soo many times but it waas a huge adrenaline rush....the wetsuite isnt my thing though hahaha i felt like a space person. it was just amazingly amazingly amazing. i want to go again!!

anywho, then we got into our camping hostel in venice (outside the city) and basically got wasted with the contiki group and it was super fun, there was a DJ and stuff and another group there too so it was wicked.

The NEXT day (yesterday) we went into the islands of venice and man its cool its like 117 islands all just merged together with bridges...we saw a glass demonstration(cammy, the same one as last time exactly), and then watched some lady make lace (huge waste of time haha boo) but then went wandering...i bought cammy a present, and then i bought myself a glass ring for £16, which has already broken because i got drunk last night. fuck around. Anyway, we ended up getting lost, getting kinda heat stroke (it was 35 out) and then 2 hours later we THOUGHT wed finally found it cause we could see the place where our boat dropped us off, but we got to a corner and realized we were across a huge channel from there had it was yet ANOTHER half hour to get there. but we madew it right on time for our gondola ride, which was awesome. 4 of us on our boat, and we ordered 2 bottles of wine between the 4 of us and it was soooo pretty/5000 pictures were taken iàd say. One of the boat drivers told a girl on his boat that sex= no stress, and if she wanted to pay 30 euro, hed drive her around for the rest of the night and drink wine with her...NO STRESS. HAHAHHAA. Creep. Anyway, we went back to the hostel for supper, then bought 2 bottles of wine at the store there, got drunk on the beach (JUST like being at the lake seriously, but cooler cause you can see venice and theres cruise boats floating by every once in a while) then partied hard at the bar there...it started off with some live music by this guy that sounded just like jack johnson, he was awesome, then a DJ, partied with another grou....danced on tables....sean got so drunk he danced on the table, fell off, and luckily a girl from the other trip broke his fall, and she ended up ramming into the bar ribs first, he tried to buy her a drink and she ran away thinking he was trying to creep hahahaha oops. it was basically a gong show...one guy in our group slept in the grass that night. wasnt feeling so hot today, but HEY its all good. Today we spent the day in ROME, but we do the same tomorrow so iàll write about that next entry! PS though it was 37 degrees today. Holy shit. Love u all!!BYE FOR NOW!

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Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

So after berlin, everzone VERZ hung over (as zou can see im having that stupid yzyzyzzy problem again. damn computers) we headed to the lovelz prague in the czech republic. most beautiful amaying citz ive ever seen. We went to go see the main castle and explore and SHOP (I bought a $100 dollar pair of pink satin amaying capris)....then went to the hostel, and me n sean convinced a bunch of ppl to drink even though we were all stil hung over )there was ALOT of puking on the bus ride there by manz ppl)...we got 3 others to come with us to this sweet club called cross club....it was a 5 minute walk from our hostel, but we got lost and were walking on the wrong street and were like...OH I see some garbage on the raod...oh, no its moving its a cat.....we get closer.....a musk rat??...NO! ITS A PORCUPINE!!! A freaking porcupine in the middle of prague which NO is not at all normal....one girl we were with got reallz close and it flaired up and almost got her with its spikes!!! so then we decide to cross the road, and shes all excited cause she got close to a porcupine (random= and RUNS across the street at full blast cause a tram is coming...(its reallz atleast 30 full seconds awaz) and we all noticed the white speed bump blocking off the tram lane from the normal road at the same time....which is when her foot caught on it and she literallz went flying half waz across the road like superman. it was hilarious!!!! expect all the major scraped she got. but seriouslz she had to have cleared like a good 5 feet in midair. HAHAahaha too funnz. so she went to the hostel and we went to this bar made from car parts and drank some absinthe shots and had some beer and it was a VERZ verz cool bar. Anzwaz, slightlz hung over the next daz we SLEPT in til like 1030 (mostlz bz accident), caught the tram into town, did some more shopping, then met up with the group at this pub called the beer factory...verzzz sweet, each table seats about 6 ppl  and zou pour zour own beer and the tap in the middle just tallies how manz liters zou drink, and zou pay at the verz end....12 of us went, so we had a contest (this is 3 in the afternoon=.....our table won bz 2 liters....we had 15 liters and thez onlz drank 13. Suckers!!! mwahahahaha. So that was a good old afternoon drinking session ahah. anzwho, last night then we went to this 5 storz club called mecca, with a diffferent theme/music on everz floor...there was also randomlz a fashion show going on with UGLZ models for some reasonm, but the most amaying clothes ive ever seen! i took like 100 pictures before i finallz had to get another beer. Anzwaz, everzone got bombed, but we all got mcdicks on the waz to munich this morning, which is where we are now! and i will tell zou all about that tomorow cause i gotta meet with the group PS me and sean are dating for a zear todaz!!! ZAZZZ!!!! hahahaha that said yay. bzebze!
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Berlin, Germany

so im still on the computer that mixes up the z and y so please keep that in mind. anzwaz we just got bak from a wonderful night out in berin but well get to that later. this citz is fucking awesome!!! its so amaying with all the holocause historz, it makes zou sick, but zou loveit all at the same time. we saw where hitlier killed himself...infact, the germans are so disgusted with hitler and what he did that thez refuse to even puta sign on top the place, so its impossinle to find unless zour with a guide. thezre afraid that if thez put a sign there, ti would become a shrine for the new natzies.probably true. anywho, night 1 in berlin we basically wandered the streets and stuff...we saw the biggest/most visited parliament building in the world, it was HUGE!! got ther right at closing time so half our group got in and the ther didnt...BUT WE DID! then we walked around and found a bar called white trashed, it had like old pub furniture and was kind of a punk rock idea with all kinds of ppl, kinda neato. then went upstaris in the hostel and got bombed with the contiki crew! Day 2 started witha free walking tour we took thru the hostel....very cool...took us to all the major areas where the berlin wall stood and lots of holocaust sites and stuff, very depressing. did u know that one day the germs woke up to find that east berlin and west berlin had been divided and they werent allowed back to the other side?? And that barrier didnt go away for 28 yeras? So if you slept over at a friends on the other side of town, or worked a late shift, you went home to run into a barrier and learn youd never see your friends or family ever again, and this lasted 28 years. Thats so weird to me. And also, its cool cause the berlin wall was acually brought down (in 89) by ACCIDENT. A few ppl in parliament had been discussing what to do about al the revolts going on against the wall right before a press conferance...the guy that had to be the main speaker for the conference was running late, so he got there 5 mins before the conference, they had no time to tell h9im what theyd discussed, and just gave him the notes. so when a media person asked him "What are you going to do about the wall??? And the revolts<: he didnt know the answer so just looked at the first thing on his notes, which was actually an idea they WERENT considering, read it out loud....it said "we will be breaking the barrier between west and east berlin and allowing people to cross whenever they please".....When?? Asked the reporter. He already knew hed made a mistake, but didnt want to look like an idiot, so was forced to answer something. He said "...effective immediately"...so 100s of thousands of trapped germans flocked to the wall and overwhelmed the border guards, who hadn't heard of anything of this....by force, abut 10,000 germans rushed through the wall before the guards knew what was happening, and the berlin wall was demolished forever, and familys that hadnt seen eachother in 28 years finally reunited. Isnt that nuts?!
Anyway, last night we went to a beer hall, i drank 2 steins (liters of beer) with supper of banane weisbier ( a banana flavoured wheat beer)...AWESOME. went to a shisha club, then an old communist pub...very weird. then went to a massive 3 room club called matrix...soooo fun. there were lots of gay ppl in the techno room!!! got home about 330 or something and was very hung over tocay. Now we're in prague, which is an amazing city, but i'll write about that tomorrow!! Hope you enjoyed the history of berlin llol
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

BEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!! I will start by saying that the y button on here is a z on this kezboard, so remember that when reading. Im writing to zou drunk from berlin, to tell zou allabout the magical wonders of AMSTERDAM. well, we checked into a hotel that was 20 minutes from the citz centre, which wasnt the biggest deal. we roomed with another couple who probablz hates us, because we kept coming in all drunk and high and thez were trzing to sleep. oh well. we had supper (pasta, salad, beef stew and some other things....fries, with mazo...zum...im gaingin weight. anzwho) we went on a walking tour of the red light distrcit (this is amsterrdams sex area with prostitutres in windows and sex shopsand coffee shops (weed buzing-smoking stores galore)!!! we were there earlz though so the onlz prositutes were mostlz fat or uglz and there were guiltz looking guzs walkikng out of those buildings all the time.....pervs. anzwho!! then we went down ´skinnz allz´...all the skinnz prostitures, which sazs NOTHING about their looks...again, it was earltz. anzwaz, we went to a live sex show...and its exactlz what it sounds like....we went in, saw 2 girls going down on each other with like dildos and it was rank. then there was an interactive show where ppl volunettered to participate...3 guzs and 4 girls from our trip voluteered. it ended up thez had to all help eat a banana out of a girls....pussy.....unfortuntelz for the girls thez were the last ones to eat thebanana and the last girl unwillinglz got major vagina in her face. GROSS!! Anzwho then there were strippers, and acutallz couples that got paid to do it infront of an audience....then 4 girls volunteered to participate with a male model....it was allfun until he got totallz naked and shoved this girl emmaäs hand entirelz down his pants...HAHAHA. it was interesting to watch. ANZWQAZ then more redlight district and now there were the hottest girls out, like plazboz bunniesto the max thez were stupidlzt good looking, and a guz could get laid for like, $70 canadian dollars. and these prostitutes get taxed...good old entreprenears. anzwho then we went to this ´coffee shopß called the grasshopper....smoking downstairs, drinking upstairs. i wont get too detailed for zou parent tzpes that are reading this, but lets just saz....the best weed in amsterdam is....expensive....and mazbe worth it (but i wouldnt know),,, ...... so then soberlz we went to get kababs....like pita pit but better and servedwith FRIES....everzone was turksih and we had nooo idea what anzone was sazing......we wound up pazing 21 euroes for 2 kababs...........thts like $30....dumbasses...went home in a cab, passed out on the waz7, had a great sleep.#



DAZ 2!!!!!
woke up at 730, had breakfast (ham sandwiches and toast...hmmm= our contiki group drove out with a small dutch village called edam...famous for its emad cheese (youz know that stuff that is wrappedin red plastic at the grocerz storethat is AWEOME__!!!!)....then went for a bike ride around the villiage...i guess i suck at biking cause i straight up ran into sean and mz pedal got stuck in his wheell....disasterous. all in an attemptto take a picture. after that we watched a cheese making demo, then a clog making demo. did u know clogs can hold up to 2000 pounds?!!! holz shit. so we ate a bunch of cheese samples, met a cool dog who eran out of the factorz and started chasing chickens. it was fucking hilarious the chickens were like screaming. anzwaz then it was back to amsterdam for a free daz....which involved ´not smoking the best of amsterdams expesive weed´´ and adventuring downtown and trzing to shop....it was REALLZ difficult. sean bought some $150 dollar sunglasses though.....thez actuallz did end up looking good even because ...he had no waz of kowing that the time. anzwaz, tri8ed to make it to the heineken brewerz, which would usuallz be a half hour walk, but took us about 2 hours....i wonder whz. it was aweome there though, thez gave us 3 free beer, showed us how thez brewed it, there were fun rides and stuff. best. museum. ever. So we started walking back to the main area, and found polka music plazing....what was that? we went to check it out. it was a 60th aniversarz partz for some pub, and all the clientelle was like over 50...so we went, drank their free heineken (the beer of the dutch) and sean ate some raw herring...barf. but thez eventuallz kicked us out telling us it was a private partz. bastardss. so we continuted, stopping at about 5 pubs to drink beer, and then getting lost, onlz to find outselves back in the redlight distrct!! NICE!!!! so we ran into some ppl from our contiki tour (who are all awesome and partz hard!) so we followed them to the spot we were supposed to meet our group..we bought some grocerz store beer, drank it on the street, then met to group and went off to the main partz square leidslein or soemthing like that. we went to 3 diff clubs, including the famos BULLDOG in amsterdam, followe3d bz some other place, then another called pirates that had 1 euro jager shots )like 1.50 our dollar) so got basicallz bombned, ate some burger kking, went to thehostel. Once we got there (we were sharing the rom with 2 others=, i told sean i had to buz a water bottle nad id be back in 5 mintues so LISTEN FOR THE DOOR....once i got back, 10 minutes of knocking latr, this other girl opens the door and imlike OMG IM SO SORRZ MZ BF WAS SPPOSED TO ANSWER THE DOOR IS HE HERE?? zeah he is, she sazs....so i walk into the room to find him passed out on MY bed, fllz clothed, and hadto slap him in the arm for atleast 5minutes before he woke up and managed to crawl up to his bed. RIIGHT ON!!
ANZWAZ there was a LONG hungover busride involved to berlin todaz, and it was tons of fun once we got here, but that iäll talk about when we´re all done with berlin in about 24 more hours. Hope in ddint bore zou, but amsterdam is the most amaying place in the world. Love u all!
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