Amsterdam Part II

Before I catch you all up on my European adventures, I just want to put out a little announcement.  I’ll be returning home in about a week and I will have about two weeks in Seattle before moving to Portland for the summer.  In those two weeks, I would be more than happy to babysit!  I’m not entirely sure who all reads these posts, but if I babysit for you already, or if you want me to start, know that I will be available from about May 20-June 1.  So it’s not much time, but it’s better than nothing! Just shoot me an email and we can work something out: moliver@lclark.edu.

The next day in Amsterdam we went back into town to meet up with our friend Hannah who’s been traveling around on her own.  We met up with her at the Anne Frank House, which was pretty incredible to see.  I guess when Otto Frank wanted to make the house into a museum, he asked that it remain how it was after they had been found and essentially removed everything.  They had preserved the photos and posters that Anne had put on the walls.  The rest of the day we pretty much just walked around the city.  Some people that had been on the study abroad trip to London were also spending some time in Amsterdam, so we met up with them and kept walking around.  Before meeting up with the London guys, Grace, Hannah and I went to get some food.  We got some noodles to go and were eating them by the side of a canal with chopsticks.  A group of about 15 Chinese tourists came up and started taking pictures with us.  It was super weird.  We were just cracking up the entire time.  So funny.  Luckily we were able to get them to take a picture with my camera too.

There are nearly as many bikes as there are  people in that town

Hannah with some bikes and a canal

The following day, our lovely hosts took us out to a small Dutch fishing village.  It was pretty touristy, but cool.  After that we went to look at a whole bunch of windmills.  That afternoon we were dropped off down in Amsterdam again because we wanted to hang out with Hannah and the London kids one last time.  The guys from London had rented an apartment so we had dinner there.

Fully functioning Dutch windmills

All in all, Amsterdam was great.  The canals and bridges are so cool.  The people were very nice.  It was a very successful leg of the journey!