Sunday, August 30, 2009

7- Amsterdam Free Day

Facial hair picture.

Today was free day. Slash recover from last night day. Most people got home at 5am or later last night. I woke up at 8am because the maid banged on my door, because my roommate Dave was asleep on the floor in the hallway- because his key wouldn't work and I didn't hear his knocking I guess and he didn't wanna bang real loud. Oops. So my alarm went off at noon, we swore at the fact that it was that late, and then fell asleep another hour till 1.

At that time we got up and went for pannenkoeken again- pancakes, that are basically giant crepes with whatever topping on top of it. I had the poffertjes, which are tiny fluffy pancakes soaked in butter, powdered sugar, and syrup. Amazing. And reasonably cheap. A nice side benefit is the people who had pancakes couldn't finish em anyway, so I got a good full meal after mine was gone!

I also tried my hand at eating a lemon peel rind, since my friend Kat does it all the time and insists its good. Fine, i tried it. Not bad!

Our pancakes. The one is just basically a plate of chocolate sauce. Tasted damn fine.

My poffertjes.

Happy people with their food. Alex, Dave, Jessica L-R

A sweet Ben & Jerry's Vespa delivery. By the way I scratched the screen on my camera today. Its officially broken in. I dunno how because I'm really careful with it. Working on getting over it. Man.

This was apparently an "antiek" sled.

This is a tiny delivery truck, and our tiny friend Dorit.

After pancakes a good contingent of us, like 10 people, walked to the museum campus. Van Gogh Museum and National Gallery of Art, where there's a huge quad as well. Cool.

Shauna and I didn't wanna go in and spend the time or money in the museums so we walked around. Went through a monstrous city park, lots of little rivers and grass and such. We also walked down the fashion district apparently, and there was a fashion show going all the way down the street. Didn't get any pictures cause it was just ending. The beats were loud. The people were...fashionable.

They also had some new Jaguar I've never seen before. Pretty sweet.....


Here's a bay window that was being held up by a scaffold. It was trying to collapse off the building.

The National Gallery

A cool water fountain, with an axis that went all the way across the park.

The "I AMsterdam" sign from the new Amstel Light commercials...

...that was fun to play on. And easy to climb.

More climbing... Jason will climb anything.

Jason about to jump from the top of the I




A weird alien creature thing, with a weird alien appendage down there.

Some other giant swing that we enjoyed.

That is all I have to say today. Might go get some more fries, split em with Shauna. People are at dinner now (at like 10pm). Probably going out later. I don't think I'm interested. We'll see.

Tomorrow we go to Utrecht and see the university there, and cool buildings as usual. Adios.

Two days until we fly to Barcelona and I guess start class then. But lets be honest, we might not even start class until Monday, who knows. I DO sorta feel bad for my classmates in Chicago. We have like a 12.5 week semester her instead of 16. Maaaaaaan.

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