Amsterdam

After our two hour train ride we hopped over to our hostel.  Known as the Flying Pig, it is a very popular place to stay in Amsterdam.  Our room housed 24 people, yep that’s right 24.  It was quite the experience and am very glad that I hopefully never have to stay in a hostel ever again! It was dinner time when we arrived so we wandered around the streets looking for some grub and settled on the ever so delicious Subway.  We had an early night and hung out in the hostel making new friends.  The next day Shannon and I got up and made our way to the Anne Frank Museum but didn’t go in because of the 3 hour wait.  There was a carnival going on in the main square, next to Madam Tussaud, and it was filled with people even at 10 in the morning.  We went back to the hostel for awhile and decided to take a long walk towards the I Amsterdam sign.  It is not as impressive as I once imagined, pretty small but overall very exciting.  We laid in parks, talked, and wandered.  The day we were headed to London proved to be the most eventful day of all.  We woke up early to catch our boat, not knowing that it took around 1.5 hours to get to the port, we were running a little late.  Did anyone know that you had to check in 45 minutes early for a boat? Because we certainly did not.  We arrived at 2:15 for our 2:30 departure and were told we could not travel on that boat.  We had to stay in the port terminal all day waiting for the next boat to leave (which didn’t until 10:30 pm).  We had to purchase a cabin and literally went to bed in Amsterdam and woke up in London.  It was a pretty cool experience and in some cases I’m glad that we missed the first boat!