This weekend I went to the Netherlands and it was amazing! I was going to obviously see Amsterdam, but my friend Janne as well. Janne is from Holland and she studied abroad in America at Champlain this past fall semester. Maggie (my roommate) and I stayed with her. She picked us up at the airport and gave us little wooden clogs and "typical dutch cookies" to welcome us to her home, she is so cute! She drove us through her home town and showed us where she worked, and the house she grew up in. It was so crazy because honestly when she left in December I never thought I would see her again, yet there I was with her in her home town in the Netherlands. Once we got to her apartment we refreshed ourselves and headed to Amsterdam. Janne lives in Utreck which is a 20min train ride from Amsterdam. We rode bikes to the train station which was interesting because the bike I was riding was too big for my short legs so I had to get a running start in-order to get on and whenever we stopped for traffic I had to throw my body off the bike, but I WAS RIDDING A BIKE THROUGH HOLLAND... so I didn't care that much :) Once we got into amsterdam I instantly fell in love. The buildings were beautiful, everything had bloomed including the tulips and there were canals everywhere. Our first stop was a "coffee shop" where they have a weed menu. It is so crazy there are people smoking in the streets and you can smell it everywhere. They also sell "space cakes" which are weed cupcakes. I had a bite of the space cake just to try it .. to say I tried a space cake in amsterdam...After the coffee shop we walked to the Van Gough Museum where I got to see the famous painting "starry night" it was so cool to see it in real life among with all his other famous paintings. After the museum we got some wine and sat in the park and just talked and sipped on wine. While we were doing this I dropped my entire cup on myself so it looked like I wet myself.. it dried eventually. After relaxing for a bit in the park we headed over to the red light district....In the red light district there are windows after windows with half naked women just standing there shaking their boobs. If someone is interested in them they walk in the glass door and they shut a curtain. There are sooooo many I couldn't believe what I was seeing, so I took a picture from a far, but apparently this one prostitute had tunnel vision and saw me. She got off her little platform, came out of the door and yelled "NO PICTURES YOU BITCH" and threw a cup of liquid at me...which I later learned was URINE which apparently they keep on hand for when people try to take pictures of the. Luckily she missed but I thought it was funny that a whore called me a bitch! It is a story to tell my grandchildren for sure. At this point we had been up for almost 24 hours so we went home and passed out.
No comments:
Post a Comment