Our Bad

It's been kinda hectic but not really the past couple days. We've been busy taking in the sites and stuff. Sorry for the delayed post.

So Monday night we ended up having a chill night. We went to dinner separately (I got some fabulous veggie curry at a Bollywood Indian restaurant) due to different napping schedules but went out together for a nice beer. Then we hit the coffee shop and I ordered a fat blunt and coffee and got a pic of me doing so. I got mine with tobacco in it so it wasn't really that much weed. I just wanted enough to say I did it. So we smoked a couple drags of the hemp cigarette and next thing we know we are high as kites! The weed here is not like the ditch weed back in the States. It was late and we got kicked out of the coffee shop so we walked over to the square (it was raining pretty bad) and sat under a big umbrella. Amy read her book (A Scanner Darkly) and I sat and listened to Bob Marley on the ol iPod. After a while I was bored and tired so I went home but couldn't sleep. Instead I stayed up all night just lost in my thoughts. Amy came home late and read some more and then we crashed out.

Monday and Tuesday my sleeping schedule was so messed up, I was actually up at 6:30 each morning. So I would get up and grab my smut magazines and read downstairs in the garden room with a coffee wrapped up in a blanket. Pretty cool, even though I don't get up that early at home.

So yesterday we walked around, it was raining pretty badly. Oh, and we had to switch hotels, which it was NOT fun lugging all my bags across town. We settled into the hotel (a big cruise boat in the canal/river. Amy immediately fell in love with this side of town and the hotel. We went out for a long walk and ended up going to the Anne Frank Musuem. I will have to post separately about that. (I only have 9 minutes left and I'm trying to get some chat time in with Mr. Man). After the AFM we walked around some more but I was exhausted so I went back to the hotel for a nap while Amy walked around aimlessly. By 10 we were out the door for the evening. On the way to dinner some dude tried to tell me a story and wouldn't leave us alone and then this nice guy named Matthew (I think he was Australian, could have been English though) noticed that this shady dude wouldn't leave us alone so he pretended he was with us and got us out of the situation. That was weird. Our only brush with seediness so far though. We got some Italian food (yummo) then walked around the Red Light District. No photos of me in a window yet, but we'll see if I can do that. I really don't think I can. :-( There was all sorts of craziness and we saw all sorts of prostitutes. Pretty ones, ugly ones, black, white, asian, fat, skinny, tall, short, down and out, superstars - you name it. It was quite the site to behold. Then we tried to find a pool hall that we had seen earlier but could NOT find it. I was getting anxious about the bars closing (I decided I needed to get drunk in order to sleep well otherwise I'd be up all night like I was before) so I had to load up on the booze. Finally all the bars were closed and it was after one and starting to get shady in the RLD. We were trying to find some place open but with no luck. We stopped at a falafel place (apparently this is were all the prostitutes eat after their shift) to use the bathroom and had to get some food. Just as we were leaving we asked about a bar that serves past 1. Next thing I know we are wisked away to some side street bar called San Francisco that had to have special door service. After a couple more cocktails the night livened up and Amy and I had a rip roaring good time never even leaving our bar seats! We were left relatively unbothered except for the occasional drunk guy saying something to us. Ugh. We closed the bar at 4 am and stumbled home with not a care in the world. It was starting to get light out already (16 hours of light here). We made a couple of drunk phone calls to the men in our lives (it was 10 PM the night before in Florida and 7PM in Washington) then promptly passed out.

This morning we slept and watched tv till about 1 in the afternoon then got ready and ate the BEST ever sandwiches on the sidewalk in the sun. I got grilled brie with tomatoes and walnuts. Awesome!! Then I had the best iced tea ever, I don't know what they do to it here, but is was amazing. I didn't need any sweetener. And they put oranges and lemons in it. After that we went to the sex museum. You would not believe what we saw there. I'll keep it fairly PG as we have a variety of readers of this blog and not everyone wants to hear about the transvestite picture with a edit in their mouth and a blank in their explicit. :-) If you want to know more, I'd be happy to email you. Then we went shopping (I got a ton of stuff) and now here we are blogging. Amy is making a blog too, though I don't know what she's saying. Probably the same sh*t I am.

Tomorrow we are taking a train to Arnhem to see the windmills and get a sampling of Dutch culture. We are both REALLY excited about this. They have an outdoor art musuem with paintings (including Van Gogh) in the forest. Too cool. Tomorrow night we will probably find a nice restaurant and dress to the nines and enjoy our last night on the town. It will be Amy's official b-day party since we were so lame on her actual birffday.

Tonight - who knows. We are on online dates with our men right now. I'm down to my last tank top and pants. No money left so I'm starting to hit the AMEX card (at a 2% fee each transaction - ouch!). OH! That's right, Amy and I are going to a live sex show tonight and more hanging out in the RLD. Since we have no moeny we will eat fast food. Maybe I'll have enough for a few beers. I'm going to turn into a Heineken beer. In AMS when you order beer, that's what you get. There's not a choice of beer. Unless you go to an Irish pub, then you can get Guniess. Or however that is spelled. I'm losing braincells by the day. I'll be lucky if I can still remember my multiplication tables by the time I leave. :-P

I don't know if I can post more pics or not. And since we will be out of town tomorrow I'm not sure I can post again before we leave. We''ll try though. Friday we will go straight to the airport from the hotel, maybe I can do it there.

I miss everyone and have so many more stories to share - this place is absolutely amazing. More than words could ever describe. See you soon!