Amsterdam!

We arrived in Amsterdam late on Friday night and went and checked into our hostel. Since it was so late, we called it a night to be ready for a full day of adventure tomorrow. On Saturday we ate a pancake house for breakfast. This pancake house was supposed to be one of the best pancake houses in Amsterdam and it was definitely good! They had all different types of pancakes from banana to nutella flavored! After eating breakfast, we went on a bus tour around Amsterdam. Let me tell you bus tours are the way to go. They show you so much of the city in a two-hour span. On the tour they showed us some of the major historical sites in Amsterdam. One of these was Anne Franks house where Anne and her family hid out from the Nazi’s during War World II.  It drove us by the museum part of the city where there was the Van Gogh Museum, Rijkmuseum, and the Diamond Museum. After the bus tour, we walked around the city for a little bit. The city was crazy since it was gay pride weekend. People were wearing the most unbelievable outfits; guys were dressed up as girls and vise versa. In one of their canals they had boats after boats of people dancing and just going insane. This was one of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. Also there was trash everywhere since there was the parade. It was disgusting the stuff that people had thrown all over the city.

The next day we woke up early and went to Anne Franks house. This was an emotional experience to see where the family had to hide during War World II. When we actually went into the attic, it felt so cold and lonely. I could not have imagined having to stay quiet all day long without even having any sunlight. The attic was really well hidden by the bookcase; I would have never known it was there. Being in the house made the entire story of her actually real and not just a book that I had once read.