Amsterdam!

Heyo!!

Thus far our trip has been absolutely wonderful! I can't even explain how amazing and wonderful everything is! We went to Amsterdam last weekend, but this week has been so busy I haven't had time to post until now! haha

Amsterdam: It was about a 6 hour train ride from Luxembourg City to Amsterdam. We first had to take the bus to Luxembourg city, and then a train to Brussels Midi, and then to Amsterdam. It was fun though, we played Eco Flux, and also Rummy 500! We got to our hostel around 8:30pm. It was actually very nice, after reading the hostel reviews I was a little worried it would be really dirty, but it was totally fine. We made friend on the may term with us that was also going to Amsterdam the same weekend, who stayed in our extra bed in our hostel, he's very nice! Also Alisa and Felicia joined us for the weekend, they're studying abroad in Scotland now, it was awesome to see them again!

After we dropped off our stuff at the hostel and changed we went out! (it was already after 9) We went into the city to party :D It was hoppin! Everyone was around and going out. There was a huge coverband festival that lasted the entire weekend on this huge stage in one of the city squares. There were outdoor bars set up around the stage, but there were tons of bars and coffee shops surrounding that area as well. We could drink on the street, it was pretty cool. We ended up going to a grocery store for wine because the bars were pretty expensive.

Our quest for the evening was to find the night club called "Escape", but we had absolutely no idea where it was. Somehow I was leading us there, and of course I wasn't really in the best state of mind for that...ha Anyways eventually we did actually find it, which was amazing because the city is HUGE! We ended up not going in because the cover charge was really high, and we had already been to an expensive bar. So we walked around forever, and went to a few bars. Eventually we started heading back towards the hostel, which was like miles and miles away by this point, and a few of us were wearing high heels, (not me tho :D). We ended up going to a pancake house? And one of the waitresses gave us directions back to our hostel, which was very very helpful! We ended up going to bed around 4am?

On Saturday we walked around the city and did a ton of site seeing. Our hostel was pretty close to the Museum district, so we started at the Van Gogh Museum. It was absolutely AMAZING! I think that he is my favorite artist for sure now! There were lots of other artists work within the museum, but Van Goghs were just absolutely superior (in my opinion). We walked to the red light district and went through, it was very interesting how open everyone was about the prostitution. We got a few pictures that will be helpful for my and Allie's projects for class. After we went to the sex museum. Then we went to the Ann Frank House, I only knew the basics of the story before, so I'm glad we went to the house. We were going to try to do a canal cruise, but they ended at 5pm so we missed out on that. Everything we saw was very beautiful. We went back to the hostel to change. Then we went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant, it was delicious! Then we went to the grocery store and then some bars. It was super fun! We didn't stay out as late because we had to get up early the next day to check out of our hostel.

Sunday: We got up and got breakfast at the hostel. Then we went back to the redlight district, and then shopped a little bit. After we headed to the train station to head back to Luxembourg.

There are lots of pictures on facebook from the trip so far, check them out! Hopefully I'll figure out how to post them here soon!