Amsterdam Day!!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
We got up and went on a search for pancakes!! The book recommended this pancake joint and dutch pancakes are different from home so we decided to check them out. En route, which was awhile because we were going the wrong direction for a bit, we noticed that everyone was wearing orange. It was everywhere!! E verybody was in a Netherlands jerseys or orange colours. We finally asked someone what was going on and what the big street party was about. Apparently, the team was coming home from South Africa and they were having a huge party to celebrate. There was a parade that was going to happen this afternoon through the canals and the team would ride down the canal. There was also a huge concert and celebration to happen afterwards. So we grabbed a quick pancake, some beer and headed to the canal to get a good spot. The streets were packed full of people and there were even portable urinals in the street set up. The parade came by around 4 o`clock but people had started partying that morning. It was pretty crazy when the team did arrive. The streets were wild, people jumped into the canal to swim...just hilarious. We then decided that we needed some orange t-shirts for the rest of the party. So we went and got some jerseys and went to grab dinner and join a pub crawl. The first pub crawl advertised that the first 10 girls at 8 got free entry. We didn’t want to be late so we made it there for 8 sharp to find out that it’s only on Friday and Saturday. We decided to go to another pub crawl...they were pretty sketchy. The pub crawl that we did join up with was a red light district pub crawl...pretty cool. Prostitutes and beer!!! Haha! It was a good time, we met some cool people from the U.S, Oz, Sweden and some Canadians. It was tonight that we really got to know the Spanish guys that we shared a room with. They were hilarious...spoke amazing English and we learned some new Spanish words too. They were a bit messy and we had some flies camping out in the room but whatever, we only slept there. The guys were 19-22 and were definite partiers!! One of them was a D.J too so he was mixin some tunes for us at all hours. Good day in Amsterdam!