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birthday day!
-woke up late... around 1130am, which is good cos the city doesn't really open til noon.
-biked over to the pancake bakery with ease. no getting lost today. i had a banana, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream pancake and coffee. leah had a strawberry and whipped cream tiny pancake (a.k.a. zomerpoffertjes) and still water. it was onolicious. alicia keys and paris hilton would back me up on this one. (their pictures are on the website). wish i had some crispy bacon to go along with it. cost: €20
-rode over to the van gogh museum. it was cool. felt like it was something i had to see while i was here. cost: €25
-rode around vondelpark, which is like the amsterdam version of central park, but way cooler cos it's full of bicyclists whizzing around. and you can smoke freely, which we did at a park bench.
-headed north to the green house coffeeshop, smoked more G-13, and drank a hot chocoloate. oh. i forgot to mention this yesterday, but this coffeeshop has a glass floor with koi fish swimming around underneath. it's pretty sick. and leah noticed today that one of the fish was orange and white checkerboard color. they also have free wifi, which is turning up to be harder to find than we initially thought. cost: €3
-attempted to eat dinner at this place called toscanini since the internet and my travel book both recommended it. but it was booked solid (leah thought they were being racist again), so we walked away and a couple houses down there was another italian restaurant called il fiore. i was getting tired of eating bunk dutch food and figured no one can really mess up italian food. leah and i both got some steak meals and it was delicious. so, good choices there. cost: €40
-feeling extremely round we headed back to the hotel and i immediately comatosed. major kanaks up in amsterdam.
-i awoke about 4 hours later and still felt stoned. G-13 is crazy. feeling slightly awake though, i convinced leah into smoking more G-13, walking around the red light district, and picking up falafel. we walked down the main strip of the red light district and leah couldn't take it. it just feels so skeezy there. so we headed back to this falafel shop near our hotel. however, at a distance away it looked closed and i was on a mission to get falafel damnit. so we went back to the red light district cos i remembered seeing one open still. i was more interested in falafel than naked chicks. priorities. you know how it is. anywho, found the falafel place. by this time leah felt more comfortable in the red light district so she sat outside and looked around while i waited for the food. cost: €15 (2 falafels, fries, small ben&jerrys chocolate brownie fudge ice cream)
so that's it for this day. tomorrow we're on a sneaker hunt and just overall enjoying our last real day here.
flickr uploaded.
-woke up late... around 1130am, which is good cos the city doesn't really open til noon.
-biked over to the pancake bakery with ease. no getting lost today. i had a banana, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream pancake and coffee. leah had a strawberry and whipped cream tiny pancake (a.k.a. zomerpoffertjes) and still water. it was onolicious. alicia keys and paris hilton would back me up on this one. (their pictures are on the website). wish i had some crispy bacon to go along with it. cost: €20
-rode over to the van gogh museum. it was cool. felt like it was something i had to see while i was here. cost: €25
-rode around vondelpark, which is like the amsterdam version of central park, but way cooler cos it's full of bicyclists whizzing around. and you can smoke freely, which we did at a park bench.
-headed north to the green house coffeeshop, smoked more G-13, and drank a hot chocoloate. oh. i forgot to mention this yesterday, but this coffeeshop has a glass floor with koi fish swimming around underneath. it's pretty sick. and leah noticed today that one of the fish was orange and white checkerboard color. they also have free wifi, which is turning up to be harder to find than we initially thought. cost: €3
-attempted to eat dinner at this place called toscanini since the internet and my travel book both recommended it. but it was booked solid (leah thought they were being racist again), so we walked away and a couple houses down there was another italian restaurant called il fiore. i was getting tired of eating bunk dutch food and figured no one can really mess up italian food. leah and i both got some steak meals and it was delicious. so, good choices there. cost: €40
-feeling extremely round we headed back to the hotel and i immediately comatosed. major kanaks up in amsterdam.
-i awoke about 4 hours later and still felt stoned. G-13 is crazy. feeling slightly awake though, i convinced leah into smoking more G-13, walking around the red light district, and picking up falafel. we walked down the main strip of the red light district and leah couldn't take it. it just feels so skeezy there. so we headed back to this falafel shop near our hotel. however, at a distance away it looked closed and i was on a mission to get falafel damnit. so we went back to the red light district cos i remembered seeing one open still. i was more interested in falafel than naked chicks. priorities. you know how it is. anywho, found the falafel place. by this time leah felt more comfortable in the red light district so she sat outside and looked around while i waited for the food. cost: €15 (2 falafels, fries, small ben&jerrys chocolate brownie fudge ice cream)
so that's it for this day. tomorrow we're on a sneaker hunt and just overall enjoying our last real day here.
flickr uploaded.