wasted and ready

Carmen is always content with bread and wine!

the "m" in Amsterdam

Leah's big dutch pancake!

the cute little place we stopped in during the rain

We don't know what to say besides that we LOVE AMSTERDAM!  It is the cutest little city.  It is the bike capital of the world and we believe it.  Everyone rides bikes and all different ways.  They ride on the back of people's bikes, with their kids in little wooden baskets, on separate bikes holding hands with each other.  The canals and streets and architecture are so quaint and have lots of character.  We feel like we are in a little gingerbread village.  

We went to the Van Gogh museum, which was nice, but we have to admit it wasn't the highlight of the trip.  What we enjoyed the most was walking around exploring the city and taking in the atmosphere.  However, it was much colder than we thought it would be and it was raining all day the last day.  We now realize that we did not properly pack for the unpredictable June weather.

Even when the weather could get you down we managed to have lots of fun.  During the downpour, we scurried in a little restaurant near the red light district and drank 1, then 2 bottles of wine, after we agreed that the rain was not letting up.  Then we walked back in the rain and called it an early night because our train was leaving for PARIS the next morning. And, now we are here, have walked around in the Latin Quarter, grabbed some food by Notre Dame, had a couple more bottles of wine and are going to bed. Need a good night's sleep for what tomorrow has in store......Au revoir!

Carmen's Spill Count: 4

• wine in hotel room