Amsterdam

 I'm going to first start off saying that I'm sorry about the crappyness of my last blog.  It had decided to throw around my sentences and put them where it wanted ... and all I could do was go with it ... I had to hike the Alps for peets sake.  I didn't have time for blog shmog.

Febo...sorry we went..but didn't eat.  We had waffles instead!

Anywhos ... I'm waaayyy behind on our travel updates ... but hello I'm on my honeymoon ... what can you expect?  As of right now we are in Paris...just finishing up our first day but here is all about Amsterdam ... I actually wrote this about 3 days ago ... just wasn't able to post it.

 Amsterdam ... oh Amsterdam … I must say I’m a little disappointed in you. I didn’t actually see much of Holland and I believe that the majority of the country is actually quite beautiful, but I was just not impressed with Amsterdam. I don’t really know how to explain why I feel that way, maybe it just felt a little bit dirty plus there seemed to be construction going on everywhere which didn’t help the picture out.

While in the city we walked around a bit to get a feel for what was going on and then headed to our one hour canal cruise. Other than the fact that it was a bit boring, because they failed to really inform us of anything, I think that it was my favorite part of the day. It was nice to be out on a boat floating through the canals. You get a whole different perspective than seeing it on the street. There are also house boats all along the canals which can be pretty unique.

After the cruise we ventured out on the streets again to see what other sights there were to see. Oh and were there some sights. We ended up in the Red Light District … which was pretty much just one street, or at least it seemed that way. It was only about 5:45pm when we got around to that area so I’m sure it was nothing compared to what it could be, but it was still a little crazy. Also a little awkward to turn a corner and have girls half naked dancing in the window waiting for you. Awkward … oh yeah I already said that. Anyways. Once we finally got away from all that, we quickly ate dinner and headed to board our train for the night.

Jeremy and his Chocolade Melk

The train ride started out to be pretty exciting. We had this tiny little sleeper car room, but who cared it was on a train! I unfortunately eventually realized that we weren’t the only stop. We continued to make stops the whole night. I’m not sure if we really continued to pick up people. I think the last people I heard get on our sleeper car was around 11:50pm, but we definitely did stop. If you haven’t figured this out yet … I’m a very light sleeper. Any disturbance in noise tends to wake me up unless the noise quickly goes away and I’m in deep sleep. The continuing train noise wasn’t so much of a problem as the disappearance of the noise (when the train stopped) and then the start back up of it. I really have no idea how much sleep I ended up getting. All I know is that I started out on the top bunk of our room and ended up on the bottom bunk crammed in with Jeremy when the morning rolled around. Unfortunately that came around 6am and I didn’t really fall back asleep after that.

Stay turned for Munich and Patsch, Austria!