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WELL since I have nothing better to do (minus the tons of cooking I did this weekend and needing to clean my room and look for jobs and and), and because I want to go baaaack, here, have some more Europe spam!
Mich (the friend whose flat I stayed at) had a friend named Hoa who came with us to Amsterdam, and she is awesome. Note my excited derp face.
So... Amsterdam! It was... okay. Not my favorite, but fun to check out, I guess. So so so ridiculously touristy, obviously, which I find unpleasant. I don't know, maybe under different circumstances it would've been more fun, but it was just pretty average to me.
The Rijksmuseum, which we went to. Unfortunately because it was so touristy and there were so many people, we had to wait outside about an hour to even get in the place, and then when we were inside, it was horribly crowded. Ugh. Interesting paintings (especially Rembrandt) but it was hard to enjoy it. :(
We then went to the Bols Cocktail museum, which is less of a museum and more of a huge advertisement for Bols with liquor promised at the end. But I enjoyed it! This was a room of porcelain houses that Bols gave to super special KLM customers or something.
The scenting room. They have 50 bottles of liquor set up along the wall, and you spray the spritzer and try to guess which flavor it is.
Like so.
The Collins, you say?
Lol no.
At the end there are a few computer screens that match you up with whatever cocktail you feel like having. You then print out the recipe and give it to the bartenders here.
ALCOHOL YAY
AND THEN when you feel just this side of tipsy, you bring your glass up the bar and they'll give you two free shots of whatever flavor you like.
MORE ALCOHOL YAY
Genever, dark cocoa, green tea, yogurt, sour apple, and coconut.
We then stumbled tipsy out of the museum and across the street to the Van Gogh museum, which was amaaaazing, but closed an hour after we got there. :< EUROPE WHAT IS YOUR FASCINATION WITH CLOSING EVERYTHING SO EARLY. UGH.
We then went to I amsterdam.
bitch what are you doing
We then wandered around, and OH, OH MY GOSH. Apparently the Dutch REALLY like Belgian fries, which are basically freshly fried french fries with 203498230 dipping sauces. You just walk up to the stand, order a huge-ass amount of french fries, and a dipping sauce. It's HEAVEN. So we got a huge order to go, unghhh.
Then wandered around for a while (SINCE EVERYTHING IS CLOSED Europe I shake my fist at you) and then finally found our way to the Red Light District, which, lulz. Obviously you can't take pictures there, but I can tell you it's basically just a huge outdoor sex shop. Boobs and dildos my friends. Boobs and dildos.
We debated back and forth about going to a coffee shop, and if not having a bowl just having a brownie, or something, but we were so so tired we thought we'd just fall asleep on the spot.
So we went bar hopping instead. (How this is better idk, but just go with it okay.)
HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LOVE EUROPEAN CAFES/BARS. So so much. Beer is cheap and there's a lot of it.
Drunk tiems. At this same bar Mich and Hoa wrote little letters on the back of a coaster for me, aw!
And we somehow stumbled to the train station and somehow stumbled off the train and walked back to Mich's flat, lolol.
THE NEXT DAY Mich and myself walked around Leiden, where she goes to university.
I still love little European alleyways.
In Leiden they have poems painted on the sides of buildings in anything from Spanish to Latin to Greek and etc.
LOL SO THEN we sat down at a nice outdoor cafe to have a little wine and lunch, and we didn't want anything too big, so we ordered the cheese plate, thinking it would be small and delish. WELL LOL YES, IT WAS SMALL. Look at that! How could they even sell that! For eleven Euro! We were dying.
Bikes everywhere!
We also stopped in a natural science museum for five minutes because, again, everything closes just when you're starting to have a good time. So, yeah, this was just a badly translated sign in front of a stuffed pony.
Daffodils in the middle of the intersection.
Mich is fluent in Spanish (and French, that bitch) and we randomly ran into a family that was from Spain who took our picture in front of the windmill. Of course, at the last second, these guys were like, TAKE PICTURE WITH THE LOCALS HA HA! and jumped in.
Minus the locals, haha.
One of the many.
Thus ends my time in Holland. ;____;
We had family come over yesterday for the Fourth, and my dad cooked a massive brisket on the smoker which was soooo goooood. Tomorrow we'll go downtown to watch fireworks yay.
This past week I went to my old Starbucks and spoke with the manager, and, of course, she said they weren't hiring at the moment. I knew from the second I heard that they'd be transferring in a shift that my chances were slim. I put in an application at a few other ones around here, but mehhh. I'm in a state of limbo where I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack if I give my resume to office jobs, but I have no idea what the hell else to do, or what I'd even be good at if I did go into another field. I've also been kicking around getting my teaching certificate? Ugh ugh ugh I don't knooow. Why can't someone just tell me what to do, I'm no good at this srs life decisions thing.
Mich (the friend whose flat I stayed at) had a friend named Hoa who came with us to Amsterdam, and she is awesome. Note my excited derp face.
So... Amsterdam! It was... okay. Not my favorite, but fun to check out, I guess. So so so ridiculously touristy, obviously, which I find unpleasant. I don't know, maybe under different circumstances it would've been more fun, but it was just pretty average to me.
The Rijksmuseum, which we went to. Unfortunately because it was so touristy and there were so many people, we had to wait outside about an hour to even get in the place, and then when we were inside, it was horribly crowded. Ugh. Interesting paintings (especially Rembrandt) but it was hard to enjoy it. :(
We then went to the Bols Cocktail museum, which is less of a museum and more of a huge advertisement for Bols with liquor promised at the end. But I enjoyed it! This was a room of porcelain houses that Bols gave to super special KLM customers or something.
The scenting room. They have 50 bottles of liquor set up along the wall, and you spray the spritzer and try to guess which flavor it is.
Like so.
The Collins, you say?
Lol no.
At the end there are a few computer screens that match you up with whatever cocktail you feel like having. You then print out the recipe and give it to the bartenders here.
ALCOHOL YAY
AND THEN when you feel just this side of tipsy, you bring your glass up the bar and they'll give you two free shots of whatever flavor you like.
MORE ALCOHOL YAY
Genever, dark cocoa, green tea, yogurt, sour apple, and coconut.
We then stumbled tipsy out of the museum and across the street to the Van Gogh museum, which was amaaaazing, but closed an hour after we got there. :< EUROPE WHAT IS YOUR FASCINATION WITH CLOSING EVERYTHING SO EARLY. UGH.
We then went to I amsterdam.
bitch what are you doing
We then wandered around, and OH, OH MY GOSH. Apparently the Dutch REALLY like Belgian fries, which are basically freshly fried french fries with 203498230 dipping sauces. You just walk up to the stand, order a huge-ass amount of french fries, and a dipping sauce. It's HEAVEN. So we got a huge order to go, unghhh.
Then wandered around for a while (SINCE EVERYTHING IS CLOSED Europe I shake my fist at you) and then finally found our way to the Red Light District, which, lulz. Obviously you can't take pictures there, but I can tell you it's basically just a huge outdoor sex shop. Boobs and dildos my friends. Boobs and dildos.
We debated back and forth about going to a coffee shop, and if not having a bowl just having a brownie, or something, but we were so so tired we thought we'd just fall asleep on the spot.
So we went bar hopping instead. (How this is better idk, but just go with it okay.)
HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LOVE EUROPEAN CAFES/BARS. So so much. Beer is cheap and there's a lot of it.
Drunk tiems. At this same bar Mich and Hoa wrote little letters on the back of a coaster for me, aw!
And we somehow stumbled to the train station and somehow stumbled off the train and walked back to Mich's flat, lolol.
THE NEXT DAY Mich and myself walked around Leiden, where she goes to university.
I still love little European alleyways.
In Leiden they have poems painted on the sides of buildings in anything from Spanish to Latin to Greek and etc.
LOL SO THEN we sat down at a nice outdoor cafe to have a little wine and lunch, and we didn't want anything too big, so we ordered the cheese plate, thinking it would be small and delish. WELL LOL YES, IT WAS SMALL. Look at that! How could they even sell that! For eleven Euro! We were dying.
Bikes everywhere!
We also stopped in a natural science museum for five minutes because, again, everything closes just when you're starting to have a good time. So, yeah, this was just a badly translated sign in front of a stuffed pony.
Daffodils in the middle of the intersection.
Mich is fluent in Spanish (and French, that bitch) and we randomly ran into a family that was from Spain who took our picture in front of the windmill. Of course, at the last second, these guys were like, TAKE PICTURE WITH THE LOCALS HA HA! and jumped in.
Minus the locals, haha.
One of the many.
Thus ends my time in Holland. ;____;
We had family come over yesterday for the Fourth, and my dad cooked a massive brisket on the smoker which was soooo goooood. Tomorrow we'll go downtown to watch fireworks yay.
This past week I went to my old Starbucks and spoke with the manager, and, of course, she said they weren't hiring at the moment. I knew from the second I heard that they'd be transferring in a shift that my chances were slim. I put in an application at a few other ones around here, but mehhh. I'm in a state of limbo where I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack if I give my resume to office jobs, but I have no idea what the hell else to do, or what I'd even be good at if I did go into another field. I've also been kicking around getting my teaching certificate? Ugh ugh ugh I don't knooow. Why can't someone just tell me what to do, I'm no good at this srs life decisions thing.