We'll Always Have Masterdam

Sunday

We had a little mix up Sunday morning when I woke up, looked at Elisabeth's phone, and saw that it was already 8:43! Turns out the phone didn't automatically change, so it was really 7:43. I'm still not sure how that works with a 7:45 alarm on a phone that thinks it's later, but we woke up just in time. Elisabeth also looked at me as if she had no idea who I was when I woke her up. Sunday is pancake day at the hostel, so we ate those and headed to the Anne Frank House. Elisabeth had been there recently on a school trip, so she went into the oh so impressive Tulip Museum while I toured the house. It was incredible. We reunited and went to the Amsterdam History Museum, where we learned about the city and possibly more importantly, took some more interactive photos.

There were enough silly portraits to go around. The one I'm with is the city's mayor...not so sure about the other.

A friend told me I needed to buy some stroopwafels while in Amsterdam and I'm glad that he did, they were delicious! I'm not really sure what's going on with that window but I take it it was a coffee shop aka place to buy marijuana.

We did some more walking, spending a bit of the afternoon exploring the Jordaan area (which was really cool), but our feet were so tired we found a bench near here to sit a spell. And on our way to the train station, we took the advice of our new pal Jono to check out the library. Oh my goodness, what a library. Elisabeth compared it to a space station in her blog. Join me as we travel into the future.

There were people studying inside of those.

And because we've never been good at acting our age together, we spent at least ten minutes at the airport watching people either step in or avoid this ice cream.