Brussels & Amsterdam
The weekend after Copenhagen we went to Brussels and Amsterdam - we as in Kevin and the four of us girls. Our trip quickly became known as the Spice Girls World Tour and as the fifth member of the group, Kevin was named Ginger Spice, a title that he was not too happy to have. He was a true champ though, dealing with the 4 of us and playing the roles of tour guide, photographer, and father.
Brussels should thank RyanAir for not flying into Amsterdam because it gets so much tourism from students like us who just want to pass through Brussels to get to Amsterdam. I wasn't expecting much from Brussels, but I was definitely impressed with the Grand Palace and the number of chocolate shops and waffle stands lining the streets. It certainly smelled like heaven to me.
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| Beautiful chocolate eggs |
After a morning spent in Brussels we took a bus to Amsterdam and the aroma that filled the air there was a huge change from Brussels, but still a nice one. We were sort of hollered at as we made our way to our hostel, but when the two guys saw that we were walking into our oh so cool Christian hostel, they changed their minds. Staying in a Christian hostel was definitely an interesting experience given that we were in Sin City Amsterdam. I had to hide in the corner of my room behind a bed to drink my bottle of wine, we weren't even allowed to visit the boy's dorms, and we had to come back from the night looking presentable, as if we were in high school again trying to make it past our parents. Also, we traveled all the way from Oslo, Norway and what do we hear as we are checking into our hostel? NORWEGIAN. Yep, there were Norwegian girls in our hostel as well. In addition to a really unfriendly girl who we renamed Calypso because she looked just like the character from Pirates of the Caribbean. For those who need a refresher on what she looks like:
Yeah it was not fun waking up to that face staring at you.
Amsterdam was such a beautiful, bright city. During the day we rented bikes and rode along the canals and through a park. We also stopped at the Picasso museum and had lunch outside in the sun.
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| 5 bikes locked to each other. Had someone stolen all five at once, we would have been very impressed with the robber |
The city does a complete 180 during the night. Our Christian hostel was adjacent to the red light district so we just bar hopped throughout the red light district during the night. At first I was really shocked by the prostitutes in the windows but after an hour it was like, "Ehhhh another pathetic looking prostitute. What a terrible life". We also walked into some funny shops where we found a toy called "The Destroyer".
Amsterdam was extremely fun, filled with inappropriate laughs, and we came out of it knowing that God will always love us no matter what we do.
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