The Day After Amsterdam Day!!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
This morning was the roughest!! We didn`t get out of bed until early afternoon and decided to make something out of our day and go on a free walking tour. It started at 1:15 so we grabbed something to eat and made it there just in time. Our tour guide was super enthusiastic and was a lot of fun. We found out some pretty interesting things about Amsterdam and had a good time on the tour. After the tour was over, we went to go tour the city a bit more, primarily the Anne Frank house. It was really a bust. We walked in the pouring rain without our jackets to a modern building and a huge line. Yah right! We weren’t really impressed with it so we didn`t even bother to stay. We did however go back to the hostel to try and figure out the rest of our journey. We were going to the train station as well to see when we could get to Germany and if we needed reservations. So off we were to the train station. We got the time for the train tomorrow going to Cologne and would have to do the rest of the booking from Germany. We decided to have a dutch dinner so we went to a place that was again suggested by our trusty guidebook. It was a kind of cafeteria. It had a lot of meat and different things. We had a small bite to eat, heather grabbed some fries and I had some stirfry. It was a pretty quiet night for us. We were doing some planning and internet time until late and then decided to go back up to bed. As a little aside, the Dutch buildings are very narrow and tall. They used to have to pay based on the width of the house so many of them are quite narrow with steep, long staircases. We were the on the 3rd floor up and had a really steep set of stairs followed by 2 winding spiral staircases. Not the safest thing in the world and even scarier coming down with our packs but we survived with no casualties. We met our new Spanish friends upstairs and ended up talking and hanging out with them until really late. They had an early train but they still stayed up until the wee hours of the morning. Young and resilient!!