Amsterdam!

June 14th 2008
I met Meghan at the train station in the center of Amsterdam after my flight and we walked around a bit. The city is really nice. Most people who live here ride bikes to get where they are going. There are so many of them. This means you don't have to just look out for cars, but bikers as well and they'll get pretty mad if you get in their way.

After we checked in we went to the Anne Frank House. It was a kind of depressing start to the trip to see how those people had to live. But after and a little nap I felt much better and we went down to Rembrantsplein to watch the Netherlands play France in the Euro 2008 Championship. Its fun to see all the people watch the game because they are so into it. Holland won the game 4 - 1 and it got really crazy around here. People were singing and blowing horns and celebrating with many many drinks among other things. These kids drew orange all over our faces and we wore orange shirts so we sorta fit in I guess. They don't care as long as you cheer when they score and look sad when the other team does.

Today we woke up around 9:30 and had breakfast then went out into the city. We went on a canal tour through the city which was pretty nice. Then we walked all the way to the Rijksmuseum and sat in a park for a bit while a band was playing. I took pictures with the I AMSTERDAM sign but I can't figure out how to load them on this computer. Tonight we are probably going to walk through the red light district to see it in all its glory and then have a few beers at a bar.

Tomorrow we leave for Brussels. The city of beer looks like its going to be fun. I'll let you know how it goes in a few days.

- Alex