Lets just say Amsterdam is unlike and place that I have ever been to before. There are all types of people everywhere speaking all sorts of languages. The architecture was amazing, just walking around the city would take days, observing the buildings and seeing canals on each street, it was a really beautiful city.
Of course Amsterdam does live up to its reputation of being a crazy city loaded with normally illegal drugs around every corner. We got to see the best of this sin city by staying in a Christian Hostel in the middle of the Red Light District which was busy all day and all night. It was like walking around another world. And Im not going to lie, I do not know how I felt about it. So many things kept secret in America were advertised on ever road and every corner. It was an adventure but I am not sure that I would ever go back again.
I must emphasize that it was a very beautiful city! And we go to see a lot. One of the first things we did was wait in line for about an hour to get into the house that Anne Frank and her family were hidden in. Seeing the inside of the house was a very remarkable experience, her pictures that she hung up on the walls were still there. The children's height was marked on the wall. Besides for the removed furniture, everything was exactly how it was back then.
After this we tried to lighten our moods by going to the Heineken Factory! Different from the Guinness factory but just as exciting and fun!
The next day we went to the Keukenhof Garden where there were hundreds of gardens filled with tulips! The sun was out and the flowers were gorgeous. On the way we say fields and fields of all different types of colors. I would be lying if I didnt say I was thinking of Anacortes the entire day. And although the gardens and the flowers were breathtakingly gorgeous, Skagit Valley Tulip Festival takes the cake!
Overall Amsterdam was the start of a very adventurous trip!
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