Amsterdam

Sorry, I'm falling a little behind with posting. Amsterdam was pretty cool. We arrived on Friday (two Fridays ago) went on a little city tour (through the red light district, and all around), and later went to the Van Gogh museum. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists so I was excited to get to see so many of his paintings. Plus my favorite artist, Hiroshige, had a few prints on display, which made me even more excited. After that we went to a really good (best food I've had since I've been in Holland) Indonesian restaurant. Then we were free for the night (Amsterdam is a required trip so I was traveling with the whole castle group- 80 kids). We went to a bar and a coffeeshop (no I didn't smoke) and walked around a bit. The hostel we were staying in was really nice (since the school booked it). The next day we went to the Anne Frank house. It was amazing. We got to walk through her room and see the pictures that she had hanging up in her room. It was actually kind of eerie though. The only thing was that it was really crowded so we were kind of pushed through it. We had originally planned on staying another night in a Christian hostel in the red light district (lol) but Casey and I decided to go home early and save some money and energy. It was probably for the best.

Stay Ok hostel rating: A, it was clean, it had a bathroom in the room, and the location was good

Amsterdam rating: B-, I think this is influenced by the fact that I hate traveling with a large group. And when I wasn't traveling with a group I was carrying my heavy backpack all around the city.

soon I'll post some pictures and tell about my trip to London last weekend!!