Here we go.: Amsterdam.

After we took the disorienting night train to Amsterdam and wandered around for several hours looking for our couchsurfing host, we gave it up for good and tried to find a hotel online at an internet cafe. This is what it felt like:

The internet was slower than when my grandpa had AOL Dial Up internet and we had just spent ten euros getting us all to the outskirts to see her house and then we spent another ten to get back into town to find the hotel. Once we had settled in though we started enjoying Amsterdam. Oh did I mention it started raining as we lugged our luggage to the hotel? No? Well it did.

After we settled in it occurred to us that we hadn't eaten anything for the past 18 hours. We went here:

Yummy.

By this time it was already pretty late but we explored Amsterdam a little and quite enjoyed it. I assumed it would be this small little town that is only famous for it's lax laws and cool policemen, but it was really quite beautiful. All of the old town homes were leaning because, as we learned later from our tourguide, that it was built on a swamp and that the ground kept sinking. The houses were also built to lean a little forward so that when the people wanted to store something in the attic they would just attach the cargo to a hook from the top of the house and haul it up, and because of the lean of the house, the heavy cargo would not slam into the building front. For example:

The pictures in Amsterdam didn't turn out great but we had a really great time and took some on a disposable as well, which we are waiting to be developed. But it was a lot of fun goofing around coming up with stupid things like the traveler walk:

We also abused Amsterdam's cheese shops which were giving out free cheese samples. I think we could've gotten by on those free cheese samples. And if anyone ever wants to give me a gift of cheese, know that I really like two year old goat cheese. ;)

We went on a tour which went through the red light district, the old town district and ended near the Anne Frank house which we went through as well. Amsterdam was fun.