My great Arventure: Back to Amsterdam... and then Deustscheland!!!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Back to Amsterdam... and then Deustscheland!!!

Well, I have a little bit of down time right now (i.e. I have no TV in my new apt :P) I figured I'd take a moment and perhaps do a nice big update. Most people who read this probably already know that I moved apts yesterday, and I pretty much moved with the bare neccessities. I think my laptop is worth all my other possesions combined!! :P But that will change soon when I get my furniture shipped down from Canada. Hand me downs, here I come :P

But that's not the only exciting bit of news going on in my life. I started my fall soccer rec. league a couple of days ago, and that's been tons and tons of fun. I'm clearly not in the best shape for it, but I still run my ass of and can play some fairly stingy defence. And at the end of the game if I can barely walk then it was all worth it :)

But on to the real reason you're here. More pictures. I haven't done a Euro Trip update in a while so let's try and cover some lost ground. If I remember, we left off in Rotterdam...

So, after we left the fight filled, and slightly dodgy port city of Rotterdam we headed off to Haarlem, which is a suburb outside of Amsterdam. Why you ask? Well, mainly cuz there was no room in Amsterdam. But it was a good opportunity to check out less touristy part of Holland.

And of course the first thing we do when we get to any city... GQ shot ;)

Haarlem actually was like a mini and quieter Amsterdam.

And that of course lends itself to some pretty hot GQ shots.

For dinner we decided to try some "authentic" Dutch Potatoe Pancakes. I was a little skeptical at first. But man they were really freakin' good!!! And the syrup was diff't than the usual maple syrup we have in Canada. Not as sweet, but sweet enough to complement the Potatoes and Bacon... that was Rohit's of course ;)

Look how excited he was! After dinner we wandered around a bit, had a coffee (and possibly a pint) and walked by the "Red Light District" of Haarlem. In actuality it was just one woman, but it was weird because her "stall" was in the middle of all these normal residential homes. But that's the norm over there I guess. Don't worry, all we did was smile and wave :P

So, after Haarlem was the big stop in Holland... 2 nights in Amsterdam!! Man that was fun. Now of course Rohit being the hungry man that he is, the first thing we did was go get food. I had to remind him that he was a vegetarian as he was about to order a double bacon cheesburger. Look at him stuff his face!!

Our first stop was the Sex museum. It was only 3euro so we figured it was a good bargain. There was some pretty trippy stuff in there, but the thing that made me laugh the most (or at least made me realize how much of a sexual appetite humans have had over the ages) was this...

Odd. Very, very odd ;)

So for some reason we didn't take very many photos that afternoon. To be honest, I don't even remember much of what we did that afternoon. But I know it involved walking around w/ our umbrellas upside down saying (in an Indian accent) "Collecting water for India!" Here's how we did: