Amsterdam

So this past weekend myself the girls and the boys went to Amsterdam. We took the bus there which was really cheap and easy---The Netherlands are only about 3 hrs from Belgium so it really wasnt bad at all. We got there Thursday night (no classes on Fridays) and went to our hostel....well that was an experience. I really didn't think the hostel was that bad, despite some people complaining, but the bathrooms were definitley gross. Other than that, it was cheap--and you get what you pay for lol.

Friday we did ALOT. We got up early and went to the Anne Frank house---the original house that they had the "Secret Annex" in. I expected alot more---i thought there would be the original furniture in it because it is depicted that way on all their brochures etc. But even without all that it was still very surreal and haunting...especially Anne's bedroom where there are still pictures and clippings glued all over the wall (picture on the left is the outside of the house).

Next we went to the "Heineken Experience." Since Heineken is brewed in the Netherlands they have this huge tour museum that is SO cool. It is a whole bunch of weird stuff, shows you how they brew the beer, there are these movie showings where you sit or stand and it is baisically like a ride, plus free beer lol. You can see a picture---me, Tayler and Max at this site:
http://heinekenfm.bitmove.tv/bitmove/cgi/receive.jsp?uid=090BB042D7E6C7E59105CD4D60F6D403



Saturday was equally exhausting...because we had walked for literally MILES on Friday i was really tired. We all had lunch together and then the girls and I went to the Van Gogh Museum which was awesome. It is the largest single collection of his work. I was surprised that some of the more famous pieces werent there (i.e., starry night, the screamer) but it was actually more interesting without them, becasue i saw some pieces that i never would have attributed to him otherwise.

Anyways, although the city and the canals were beautiful, come Sunday we were all sick of walking, exhausted and tired of dodging the millions of bikes that are all over the city...so we got a bus home earlier than we had planned, but everyone was so glad. Especially me, who now has a bad cold...not sure if i got it from exhaustion, the hostel, or the 2 million dirty hippies....could be all of the above.

No internship this coming week---EP is in Strausbourg. So i will just be relaxing, spending some alone time, and catching up on school work! This coming weekend i am going to Paris!!!! So excited!!!

Love you all!