Tuesday, December 22, 2015

I AMsterdam

Today, Mama and I toured the city atop a double-decker hop-on-hop-off tour bus. This city is gorgeous. PERIOD! Here are some highlights from today:

- Canals, canals, canals
- The weather is tolerable, even with the rain, it's all good 
- There's a lot of character and charm jam-packed into this small city
- I could live here...except the deadly windy narrow Dutch stairs would take me out on Day 1
- Today I felt like Bubba Gump as I listed all the types of bikes we saw: slow bikes, fast bikes, old bikes, new bikes, short bikes, tall bikes, rude bikes, nice bikes, 10-speed bikes, motor bikes
- Shopping here is off the hook - seriously awesome, so straight forward
- Similar to Sweden, some public restrooms cost money
- Dr. Atkins must have been from Argentina because eating at Restaurant Argentinos San Thomas was very low-carb!
- We met an interesting former military guy who's originally from North Carolina but has lived in Germany for 22 years mostly as a civilian (I was secretly tryin to fix him up with mama...she didn't bite)
- I thought I lost my phone for a few split seconds and was totally ok with that... Who am I?! 
- We saw a Tesla taxicab today...so you ballin' like THAT Amsterdam?!
- I'm coming down with a sinus infection...not TODAY Satan, not ta-day! 

Day three, where you at? 

Just beautiful!


Some of this stuff I don't remember whether it's a landmark or just a building I thought was pretty...clearly, I am SOOOOOO Amsterdam! LOL


A snap of a my favorite shopping spot...talk about the Magnificent Mile!


Again, pretty or purposeful? I'm not so sure.

AHA! It's the Heineken experience. 

There's not many of these, but the one gas station we did see is a Texaco. TEXAS REPRESENT!

This scene is so indicative of the way people just get in where they fit in here in Amsterdam. The bike was as big as the car.








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