baby went to amsterdam, she put a little money into travelling....

Hey everybody!
Internet is expensive and hard to find here... at least for me... haha but right now we have free internet at our hostel!!! so good. we're in amsterdam right now, we took the train from brussels this morning... but i'll start from where i left off in london....
so we woke up at 4:45 to catch our 5:57 train ride to brussels and from brussels we took the train to bruges. bruges is just the cutest little town, there are canals and boat rides and it's just so quaint. we took a train to a hostel, which had no room... so we walked down the road a ways to the next hostel and booked the next two nights. caitlin and i set out to explore little bruges, we went to the grand markt in the center of the town and wandered from there. we stopped to get some belgian fries, or friten, they were so delicious.. yum then we went shopping at h&m and zara and then we got belgian waffles, tasty. we went back to the hostel for a nap, and we met our roommates, a couple from chicago and a couple from spain? or italy? haha... that night we had a picnic dinner with raspberry beer, delicious.
the next day we set off to explore the town some more, we looked for a catholic church for caitlin to go to mass that night. we found two beautiful ones and kept wandering... then we went to a park with a see-saw (is that how you spell it? haha) and bounced around on that... then it started pouring on us, boo rainy, cloudy weather. so we decided that we needed to get to greece and spain as soon as possible. we need sun and warm weather! we're from a place that gets 300 days of sun a year! so we went to an internet cafe and looked at flights to greece and revised our travel plans. we went to the hostel to change into dry clothes and look at the map that we had gotten earlier. we decided to go see the madona and child at the church of our lady, it is one of the very few pieces by michelangelo that is outside of italy, so that was pretty cool, and there was a 5:30 mass, so we decided to go there for mass later. next, we went to do a tour of the only brewery in bruges, called the haalve maan... they brew 3 types of beer, a blonde and a bruin bruges zot, which are 6 and 7.5% alcohol and one called straffe hendrik, which is 9%... the tour was awesome, we got to see the history of the brewery and go to the top of the chimney to see all of bruges. we drank a blonde bruges zot and then shared a straffe hendrik, they were very tasty. we then went to mass and then got dinner...
the next morning we took the train to brussels, found a hostel, and went out to explore brussels. we went to the grand markt and walked around on the streets near it. we went to see mannequin pis, the little boy peeing... which is a big deal apparently... alright... there were a bunch of greek restaurants, so i grabbed a pitta greque... basically gyros with french fries rolled in it, tasty. caitlin had a belgian waffle and we went to check in at the hostel... after putting our stuff in our room we walked to the royal palace and the big park next to it. we went back to the hostel and went to the backpackers bar downstairs. we had some nice conversation with the canadian bartender whilst crazy 16 year old spanish students ran around the bar... party. haha then we played some guitar hero, which i beat everyone at. haha i suppose they don't have as much practice as i do...
this morning we took the train to amsterdam, locked up our backpacks and wandered around... we got some lunch at a little restaurant, i had a grilled cheese, which is popular here? because everyone is stoned? we saw lots of coffee shops. lots. and a lot of creepy people... tomorrow we're going to go to the keukenhof gardens to see the tulips! and then we're going to the heineken museum... then the next morning we're taking the train to paris! horray paris!!! we're both out of control excited for paris. so excited! i'll try to blog tomorrow about my day... love free internet. love it.

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oh and i'm not sure if i'll be able to put up my pictures until i get back, there hasn't been anywhere for me to upload them yet... i'll let you know if i upload them...