February 21, 2011

                   

When I wrote my last entry I did not know that that breakfast was defiantly needed for the night to come.  After breakfast my friends and I went down town to do some sightseeing, and ended up eating at a really authentic Dutch place, New York Pizza.  Gosh I miss pizza a lot!  Followed up by a visit to a French fry stand and much more walking around the canals of Amsterdam it was time to head home.  So as always we began to hang out and drink at our apartments before leaving for downtown.  When we got off at the train station, 4 people grabbed one of my friends and I ran over to her.  After pushing one guy with my arm to try and see what was going on, he flashed a badge in my face.  I guess they have undercover cops that go on trains to see if people try and leave without checking in or out of the system.  To the misfortune of my Canadian friend she did neither of these things.  After a 30 minute debate between her and the cops, the cops themselves, and the Dutch friends we brought they arrested her for not having registered with the city of Amsterdam police dept.  After everyone freaked out we went to the club and tried to continue our night with our friend in our thoughts.  After 20 minutes of being there, she walks in.  I guess they didn’t think she would run from them and just told  her to come back the next day to register with them.  Talk about a close call, we of course celebrated her good luck.  Friday began at 12 pm after a long night of being out, noon seemed like a good time to wake up.  My friend Julia’s school mate was in town so we decided to go and check out the cool market that is in the city.  It was so cool, the venders would have everything from old TVs to clogs, from tools to cloths that looked like they were shipped in from the 80’s, and from the most gas masks I have ever seen, to tubs full of scissors.  It was really fun to walk around and see all of the things they were selling though.  After wards we went to this really cool place that served bagels and coffee.  It kind of reminds me of Panera, so delicious.  There motto is breakfast slow, not fast.  It was really weird because the people working there were really slow moving.  It all was worth it in the end because the bagels were awesome.   And you could order and extra bagel for only one euro, which I did of course, to finish your cream cheese.  After a super good time out by the time that we got back it was time to get ready for the night time.  We all got together to make some omelets for dinner and to start partying.  Too bad we forgot about time and got sucked into watching hilarious YouTube videos and drinking from a box of wine that we didn’t end up going out.  Another late wake up and I was ready for another day of touristy things with my friends.  We dedicated Saturday for the Heineken Experience.  It was an awesome time getting to see how they do things.  They walk you through a brewery and then how to taste test their beer.  Next you get to watch commercial from the past 50 years and walk threw a room that has a ceiling made of bottles!  Last you get to hang out in a bar that looks like a party in one of their commercials and enjoy a couple of their beers.  All in all it was completely worth the 15 euro that I paid for it.  One really cool club is free on Saturday for college kids so that was not even a question.  We went in a smaller group because a lot of people had left go explore other parts of Europe for their spring breaks.  The club was very fun as always and we had a great time.  Yesterday and today seemed to be the same exact day,  I just did laundry, dishes, went shopping, read a little bit, watched a few movies and hung out in my apartment being content at a few days of being able to unwind.  The only difference was that when I tried to go to church yesterday, I finally found the right bus stop after 20 minutes of looking.  Then I sat for 30 minutes waiting for it to get to the stop I was at and when the bus I needed finally came to the stop I could not believe what happened.  I got up and waved at the bus driver that I was going to get on and he just shafted me and kept driving.  I could not believe he did not see me, but I just went home mad that I missed the only English mass of the day.  The weekend was a definite success and now I need to get some school work done tomorrow.