After planning to wake up for free breakfast around 800am, we quickly found ourselves up and at em at... 1:00! Uhhh, what? This isn't sleepy England, it's Amsterdam- we can't sleep in! Well we quickly realized that in a party town like this, lots of people use the daytime for sleep. Duh. People were even strolling into the hostel after long nights when we woke up... It was like college again :).
We set out for brunch and being the hungry hippos we are, stopped right down the street for an omelet. Let's re-confirm what we know at this point: dutch people are rude. Omelets are delicious. Well it's not that they are rude, we actually really like the dutch, it is just a different culture...for example service industries don't really have any service!
We decided to stroll north into town, exploring more streets. We found part of a park which we loved as it was full of people lying around on blankets, playing music, eating and being in love. We got back on the main road and, well long story short, we never went east. Only north. We found ourselves over and hour later at the top of town far from where we wanted to be. After mapping out our route we eventually made our way to where we wanted to be, a bit frustrated at how easily we were getting lost here. But we found some awesome new streets, full of locals! It was kind of like the SoHo of Amsterdam. Eventually we were back to town center and Feeling pretty snacky after our long long walk (shocking we know). We stopped in somewhere for a coffee, hot chocolate (yeah Kelly is addicted) and a slice of Dutch apple pie. The greatest pie ever, which wasn't as all like stuffed crust we make at home. Must find recipe. Yum! Now this town is full of museums, some really famous like the Van Gogh but we didn't want to spend our money on things we aren't that intrigued by. Just to our luck, the cities famous sex museum was next door to the yummy pie place! And for only 4 euros! We felt like we had to go to at least one museum here, and this one explained history behind the red light district, Marilyn Monroe and countless other things that are a bit to R-rated for this wholesome blog. It was fun... But also really revolting and a little scary. Let's just say, the most extreme things aren't always the most interesting. But we had a lot of laughs and it was totally worth it. Museum? Check! We are so mature.
After some more walking we took our "free" tram home and got ready for another night here. We whipped up a yummy cocktail for our walk (thanks uncle Tim!) and took the tram to the leidensphleinhsjso square. Ok ok that's not how you spell it, but all we know is it started with an L and all the streets look something like that.
We split a bowl of spaghetti at a sports bar/nightclub and then set off to explore more hot spots in the bustling area. We hopped from bar to bar, having SO much fun! We had raging dance parties to old school jams like Nelly and Ace of Base and other favorites; we were totally in our own world and it was a blast!!
We gave into the late night snack craving this time (sigh) and after Burger King wouldn't take a credit card (Burger King- you suck a lot), we found ourselves splitting a delcious meal at McDonalds. Here we met 2 giant Dutch men who bought us 2 more cheeseburgers. Alright alright, we know what youre thinking...free drinks would be a much more swanky story... but we aren't interested in that nonsense... bring on the grub gentlemen
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