Amsterdam, Netherlands
So today started out pretty interesting and unlike every other day for the fact that when we woke up we actually drove into town and first visited a classic Beer Stein store followed by a Cuckoo clock shop. The beer stein place was definitely sweet, there were so many and all different themes covered the steins. My favorites were the limited edition Berlin Wall one's that had an actual piece of the wall on the top with a certificate. They were really expensive though and I'm running low on funds. After an hour or so we headed to Amsterdam on our bus. On the outskirts of Amsterdam we stopped at this awesome windmill
and then stopped at a clog and cheese making factory. This place was cool. The cheeses were insanely good and the guy who made the clogs was literally insane I think, or at least on painkillers because he was loopy and scaring everyone but me who was laughing out loud during his entire insane demonstration. The drive was great and flew by because Maddy let me borrow her 400 page book, which I read :) No one believed I read it that fast, and I was pretty impressed with myself. The book was good too, but I won't go into details except to say that women would love it and it is called "Getting Rid of Matthew."
An hour later we were unpacking at our very seedy hostel.
We took a very fast tour of the city on our way to the sex show. I absolutely loved the city. I had been told to believe it was this terrifying city where girls get stolen left and right...but I loved the city. Everyone, and I mean everyone is riding bikes and I think it is fantastic!
After eating we realized we were in the Red Light District, which was distinctly a lot creepier than the rest of the city. Creepy men were everywhere kind of staring at us. The sex show was so damn funny though. There was your run of the mill stripper, a woman who pulled 8 ft. of tape out of her vag, one who put a marker in hers and wrote on a man's chest, a couple who had actual sex on the stage (totally awkward), and the grand finale had a big fat black woman who stuck a banana in her hooch and had guys in the audience take a bite from it....Eww. Afterwards we were all tipsy and laughing so hard we headed past all the windows with the prostitues. It was really surreal to see all these women. Some were old, some really young, some hideous and some hot in that super skanky way. The worst part was just realizing that all the close-curtained windows had people fucking in them. After the district we walked towards the coffee chops, and lets just say we had a grand old time.