| Breakfast of warm eggs,
bread, and cold cuts. Went to Edam where lady talked to us
about cheese making. Couldn't understand her. Didn't see any
cheese being made. |
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Some guy showed us how clogs
were made from a tree. Seeing the way we looked, he concluded
that we went to Amsterdam the night before.
Went to the next room where there were
dishes of various kinds of cheeses. (Kind of makes you wonder
how long those cheese have been there.)
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| Inside, we tried on the
various clogs, big ones, colorful ones, oversized ones...
Outside, photo opportunity. |
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Arrived too early at town.
Wandered around. Buildings arched over to allow furniture to
be pullied up. |
| For some of us, first time on
bike in many years. Kyle told us about a time when one of his
cyclists rode into the river. (Thanks, Kyle.)
For some reason, some short people ended
up on bikes for tall people, and some tall people ended up on
bikes for short people.
Stopped biking a bit to look
at a dyke.
Stopped biking a bit for
group photo opportunity at a windmill.
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Returned bikes. Major
restroom line inside afterward. Someone knocked over a bike
and caused a domino effect inside.
Kyle gave us Amsterdam map,
meeting times, what to see, and what tram to take before
diamond excursion.
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Liz, Julie, and I went to Van
Gogh museum. Long line moved faster than Liz could get a hot
dog and soda. Couldn't find "Starry Night," which we
found out later was in Chicago. |
| The locals were
friendly and very helpful about giving me directions. And they
spoke English!
Parted from group to go to
Heinekin, which was closed.
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Took tram 20 for Anne Frank's
House. Found my group on the tram.
Toured Anne Frank's House.
Saw her actual diary. Pushed a few buttons downstairs during Eminem presentation to vote
on free speech.
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| Found souvenir shop with
normal tie design on front and something nude... I mean
"new," in the back. |
Liz stopped by an Internet
cafe, which was smokin' (not fire or cigarettes, though).
Julie contacted someone at home while we waited outside. |
| Went to Damrak to meet Kyle
outside Victoria. Got on bus where Kyle described last night's
activities: "Dale described it best, people went up to me
like demons went around that guy in the movie "Ghost"
before taking him away." |
Last night's quote of girl
taking off people's shirts: "It's okay. I'm
married." |
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Dined at Sea Palace, a
Chinese floating restaurant. Spiros demonstrated his accent
skills from "The Simpsons" and
"Austin
Powers."
Food sucked. You can tell because the
Asians got chopsticks and unrecognizable food (the way it
should be) and we got nicely prepared recognizable food. Table behind my group's left for
smoke. I took their desserts of peaches and ice cream. (Thanks
guys!)
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Kyle took us to red light
district. I now know what "red light district"
means. Walked through skinny street, which was near a church.
Lots of opportunities for window shopping.
Now we couldn't take photos of who (or
what) was in the windows, but to the left is an image of what
we saw (this image has more clothing than what we actually
saw and she was NOT rubbing her tummy).
I had to tell one lady that was waving
at me to keep her door closed to save on air conditioning
costs.
Saw an interesting
water fountain (see picture on very right).
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| Saw the sex show, which
played this song, as lady was
playing with her black toy. Saw glow stick. Saw doctor and
nurse. Saw a rotating bed. Saw an ape really happy to be
behind Steph. Contiki volunteers shared a banana with girl on
stage. |
Back at hotel was another
party night. Ashley from other Contiki group was busy filming
everyone. |
