Amsterdam

A couple weekends ago we went on a day trip up to Amsterdam which is now my favorite city in Europe! It is about a 2 hour drive and it was beautiful. I really want to find someone that lives on a farm that we can go visit. They looked so cool. We passed a lot of windmills. We saw the smallest car ever...even smaller than the typical SmartCar. Kherington was a great travel girl this trip,

We weren't sure exactly what we wanted to do there.  We had looked up a couple museums to go to, but when we arrived in Amsterdam and saw how cool the town was we decided to just wander the streets. As is standard with us, we started at grand central train station and went from there. I saw more bicycles than I have ever seen in my entire life. People riding them all over the place, bikes leaning up against anything stationary and HUGE parking garages filled only of bikes. I am not exaggerating at all. I even saw a bike that had a wheelbarrow bucket attached to the front with a seat belt in it...so cool...needless to say, I want to go back, rent some bikes and ride around!

There were waterways all over the place with boats lining the walls. We also passed some interesting food. The picture below is in honor of Ryan. He loves hot dogs, but since moving here has seen them in a very different way than in the US. Mainly they are just canned, but during our wandering we saw a couple different shops that had them in a bun with pizza toppings on top. No, we didn't try them (we opted from some delicious focaccia).

As usual, we passed some cool churches that were nestled into everyday life. We explored the touristy shops, found a huge clog to sit in, and wandered the tulips tents where bulbs of almost any color an be bought to grow at home.  Or you can opt for some wooden ones that last forever.

We are still trying to figure out what we want to purchase from each place we visit. I'm not big into trinkets...they just seem like clutter...so we'll see what we do for the long term. We did come away with some amazing Holland Cheese.