Day 29- Amsterdam

Today was our second day in Amsterdam and it was a free day for us. What we decided to go was go to the Flea Market during the morning and then head to where the soccer team was coming to meet in the center square of the city. Ashley, Joy, Alyx, Jenny and myself headed off the Flea market and started just walking around looking at the vendors and all the different shops. While we were walking along the strip we saw a mini pancake stand so all of us chipped in a bought 50 mini pancakes and they were amazing. After I got fresh squeezed OJ and that was quite good too and only 1 euro. Before all of this the city was covered in orange so we all of us got matching Holland shirts and decided to blend in a little and wear them around for the day. But anyways after the Flea market we saw a nice bagel place and everyone was craving bagels so it ended up working out perfectly. It had free wifi and I had an amazing omelet ham bagel. After our pit stop we decided to head over to the where the soccer team was meeting up and it was a crazy and we got there 2 hours early! The crowd was packed and beers were everywhere. It was the craziest gathering I have ever seen. There were musical performances and everyone knew the words but us of course. We waited and waited until the the team game and when they came everyone went crazy. It was so cool to be there and be a part of the moment in history. We only stayed for 30mins after the team got there because we wanted to head back because we decided that we were going to go on a pub crawl of Amsterdam and it started at 8:30 so we needed to get back and eat and change. What we didn’t know what that because of this ordeal the trams stopped running and were not going to start running until 7ish. And that was an estimate from the cop there. This was no bueno. We decided that we should just walk back to center square and try and get away from the crowd so we can get on the first tram. Instead of waiting we got the station and saw a taxi driver and agreed to drive all of us back to the hotel for a small rate. It was the only way back and we needed to get back. We changed showered and then headed out for the pub crawl. While walking to the tram we saw Michael and a few other girls that said they wanted to meet us at the bar. We head over to the pub crawl get our free shirts and had a pretty good time. It was awesome to saw that we pub crawled the red light district that truly glows red. It was very different to see the women in the windows just standing there, very similar to Hamburg except in Amsterdam it was triple the amount and the women had almost no clothing. I (Ashley ) did not even want to look them in the eye for the fear they might bite or something, some girls on the trip tried to take a picture which is a big no no, and the women came out and tried to take the camera and break it and started cussing. Its a job for them it is very weird. It wasn’t to wild it was a lot of fun because of the people we went with. None of them were crazy partyers so there was no issue. After that we took the night bus back and headed home.