Day 6, 7- Amsterdam

Well, after our creepy expreience in the hostel, we decided to get up early the next day, just to get the heck out of the place. So we rose at abuot 7:30am and headed off to see the city. We have decided we like Amsterdam very much. Besides all of the "sin"that happens here, this place has alot of cool history, shops( the martin girls need to do a shopping trip here, there are second hand shops galore, and joe is not as good of a shopping partner as my mom and sisters), eateries, and people. We could people watch all day. Anyway, we started the day with a 3 hour walking tour, which was great, we got to know the city by foot which was very beneficial. In the tour, we walked to markets, the red light district(in the day, of course), canals, learned about the history, got familiar with the museums, and got some good excerise. We then decided to make our way to the Heinken Brewery for a tour. This was a good way to end a tiring day. After the tour of the Brewery, we went off to meet our hosts, they live in Bussum, about a 20min train ride from the city. We knew that they had to be better than the hostel, so it could only get better. When we got off the train we entered a beautiful neighbor with MASSIVE houses, sweet! We were met at the door by a man(Maarten), who was very friendly and quite humorus. He and his wife and three children live in a old, restored, georgeous home. We had a restful night and feel quite comfortable at their home, in fact Joe is playing video games with the boys now!!!!
Day 7- We slept in had coffee with Rosyline(mom) and went to the city to tour a old quaint, swanky village named Jorrdan. Our day also included a tour of Anne Franks house. The hiding place where her and here family took refuge from the Nazi's. It is the place where she wrote in her diary and later became the famous book. Sad and intiguing. We now at home, and are soon going to have dinner with the family. SMells good.
We will leave tomorrow night, for our first night train experience to Geneva, Switzerland. THere we are going to visit our friend Rob, from DC, we met him at church. It will be nice to have some familiar faces around.
until then...