Anthony and I got to Amsterdam late at night on Thursday night. We had a 9:00 plane and got in aroudn 11:45. We asked a bunch of people directions and eventually taking 1 train and 1 night bus, we found our hostel... that we had paid 15 euros for... this was my first real real hostel experience of sharing with people you don't know. We walk into our tiny, not very clean, 3 bunk bed room and theres 3 other guys there who had just gotten back from a concert getting ready to go to sleep. We introduced ourselves, had very little small talk, and got ready for bed too. Let me tell you, falling asleep in a room with 4 guys three of which you don't know at all was not that easy! Well at about 3am a random girl comes in and takes the last bed so at least for half the night I wasn't the only girl.. haha.
Just one of the many canals in Amsterdam
The next day, Anthony and I got a bagel and a muffin and then hit up some coffeeshops. If you know anything about the coffeeshops in Amsterdam you'll know what I'm talking about. It was great haha. After hitting up coffee shops, getting some french fries, petting a puppy, and walking around a little while we went to the Heineken Factory. It was super cool! They have a whole history section (kinda boring), then they show the brewing process, then they teach you how to drink a heineken correctly, then theres this simulator machine thing that pretends like you are the beer and getting bottled, then you get 2 free beers!! And some random people gave us their 2nd ones so we got 3 free beers! It was awesome!! For 16 euros though we should get 3 free beers haha. Then the rest of the day consisted of coffeeshops, getting some dank chinese food, and finding Emily and Kevin who were meeting us there. When we finally found them we went back to our hostel (where our stuff was stored) and then made our way to our hotel.
French fries are good regardless of location
Heineken factory!!
My 2 free beers!
Saturday we woke up at around 9, and got some great pancakes. Amsterdam has pancakes on like every corner and they are HUGE. I got bacon pancakes... pancakes with bacon cooked into them.. can you say DANK!? yeeeahhh. anyways after that (and hitting up a coffeeshop) we did this super cool escape room thing. We were locked in a room for an hour and had to figure out clues to get out of there. It was actually super fun and we got super into it.. although we took to long to figure out where to start and so we ran out of time and didn't get out:((( oh well haha maybe next time. After that we got MORE food.. a sausage AND walk to wok again. And then walked around... more coffeeshops... got some dinner at an Irish bar where I was trying to be cheap and not eat so much because I had such a big lunch and got fries and 2 beers... which ended up being 18 euros!! For fries and 2 Guinesses.. like what!? hahah whatever.. then made it home by 11.
My BACON PANCAKE!
This cool photo I took of my beanie I got while I was there
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