Amsterdam, The Netherlands
We have arrived. After a dull visit in Geneva, too much fog to enjoy anything, and too busy an area to really see the beauty of Switzerland, we said goodbye to Charity who flew back to London last night. Rebecca and I then hopped on an overnight 13 hour train to Amsterdam and slept in some strange uncomfortable positions all night. Strangely enough we are wide awake, just hurting a bit.
But that will all be solved perhaps by a visit to a coffee house maybe? First we will do the good tourist/info-junkie stuff like visiting Anne Frank’s house and maybe the Heineken Brewery. My sister Marie says to skip it, but a free beer at the end sounds good. At her suggestion though, we may check out the windmills as well. We have two nights here in a nice hotel that we got a great deal on (although we wanted to shove their smiles up their #@!@#* when we got there because they said they were in Rembrandt Square, so with our backpacks on we hiked around for over an hour trying to find it only to discover it wasn’t even close to Rembrandt Square).
The shower felt great today since we haven’t had the best opportunities for showers and now we are out on the prowl for sights and sounds and of course a great cappuccino. Our backs are killing us so tonight may be the night to really experience Amsterdam and then head back to the hotel to crash.
We shall post more before we head back to London for a couple days. Starting to feel a bit homesick. As I was getting ready to hit the town today I had this aching feeling that I wanted to see my parents and my sisters. Crazy. I guess it will be good that we are all going to meet up in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. Not much longer now. I’m sure my homesickness will pass when we have our first night there and remember that a house full of Tofts is not always the best idea. 🙂 We’ll see.
C’mon Kate! It’ll be fun. Five Tofts in a house for four with screaming, crying and hurt feelings?? Why would you want to miss any of that?! LOL I’m actually looking forward to hanging out on the beach, drinking ice cold drinks (the happy kind), and yelling at all of you to get out of the water because of sharks! (and you THINK I’m kidding!)
Don’t forget to visit the sex museum while you are there…you can get your picture taken with a 5 foot penis (so I have heard anyway ;O)
Can’t wait till you are all home!!
My favorite older sister, huh? We’ll see if any of my wine is left before I declare you favorite. 🙂 Besides, now that you’ve got that Shark idea in my head, I’m too scared to go in the water. Argh.
Jenna! I’m sorry I didn’t set up your blog.
Are you going to go to the red light district and visit many strip clubs and get lap dances? Even if you aren’t, tell me you are. My life has been very boring recently.
Yo tofty,
Have you ever seen that episode of Mr. Show where they go to visit anne Frank’s attic? Innapropriately funny stuff… make sure you eat some fries w/ mayo and smoke some hash for me 🙂
missing you 🙂
hey, ran into christy, said you’ll be my way agin on or around the 17th, she has my number if you are. working mid-8 a.m. now so I’ll meet you for something :)….but the way…ken is an idiot….told me a girl stopped by…a girl with hair in clothes. dumb-ass. also…i’ll e-mail you my number. bye.
Don’t miss: The Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. We were so stoned on hash and tried to find the “Night Watch (1642)” by Rembrandt and the guards kept on saying: go through these double-doors, and then turn left. So we would do that and then it wasn’t there so another guard would say: go through these double-doors and then turn left. It was really really funny when I was young and high. The Anne Frank House is a definite and then if you get out to Amstel of course or Utrecht. I love Holland. Howver, I miss you greatly and can’t wait to talk to you again. Be safe.