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Published: February 18th 2008
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Us on a brideg near central station All i got to say about our trip to Amsterdam is omg!!! What an experience, i def know how to get around, nothing can or will compare to this weekend! So it starts with Friday the 15th, and how we go to Rome Airport. We leave at 7:00 from Perugia on a train to Rome, well it is supposed to be about a 2 and 1/2 train ride, well it turns into a 4 hour train ride! You want to know why, i know you do! This train stops in the middle of the countryside b/c the traffic light is red telling the train not to go, but it is red for over an hour!!! And the conductor tries to call in the central station to ask what is going on but no one picks up! During this about 5 Italian women yell at the conductor, and about 10 men give advice on what to do, like the conductor is going to listen! I guess Italians really feel like they can contribute, us Americans def do not do that! So we finally get to the train station, and by this time we have missed our flight! SO sad, we lost or
Hot chocolate!
For me it was soo cold! I had 2 hot chocolates that day and 2 coffees! Yummmm money. But anyway we had to take another train and bus to get to this small rome airport. When we get there we decide to take a plane to Germany, the only way we could get to Amsterdam, which cost us 140 euro, eeek, but we figured we would lose more money if we didn't go bc we woudnt make the next flight flying to Rome. So we have to wait around for 2 hours for the flight, and when we get to Germany it is freezing! And it is around 9:00 pm, keep in mind we were supposed to be in Amsterdam around 5:00 pm. SO we have to take a train to Amsterdam, we pay another 60 euro for this train, and wait around for over an hour. So we were starving and decided to go the grocery store nearby. We buy peanut butter bread cheese avocados and water. Well they didn't sell a variety pack of plastic spoons and knives so we decided to not get any silverware, bad idea. We walk to another grocery and they don't have silverware, so we walk back to the first Grocery store and there is this bakery within this grocery
Doggy!
I touched him! store, and Elena and Natalie want to use their silverware without buying anything, i didn't want to do this, but i could understand there reasoning for it so we starting using it, remember we are in Germany, a place where they speak German and a place where we don't understand anything! I am pretty sure when we sat down at the table the lady asked if we wanted anything, but i just smiled and sat, and then we go the spoon out and started making sandwiches, and then after 2 minutes another lady comes by and yells at us, and i didn't have to speak German to understand what she said! Not a good feeling, so we took our stuff and went bak to the station. At this point it is time to get on the train, and we eventually get to Amsterdam after a 3 hour train ride. So we arrive about midnight. Then it is the quest to find our hotel, and of course this place is not even close to center, but thank God we were not in Italy or we wouldn't have had anyway of getting to our hotel at night, they actually still had trolleys
Long day
Our fist picture in Amsterdam, after a 16 hour day of traveling, boy iw as tired and buss running. Anyways some guy helps us get on a trolley, and then we get off on the wrong stop for the hotel, and it is completely deserted, that freaked me out a bit! BUt we were stuck looking at a map for about 10 minutes when this guy comes by and asked us if we were looking for our hotel, and then he tells us where to go! Thank you God! We finally get to our Hotel, where we end up sharing a room with 3 asians studying in Denmark originally from England, 2 guys and a girl, they were very nice. The only thing that sucked about that night, meaning after we got to the hotel of course, was that i didn't have blanket! And i thought no one else did so i was like whatever, but when i wake up the next morning Natalie says you didn't have a blanket, and i go no, and she says that sucks! And I am like great i was cold all night for nooo reason. I swear i never thought i could curl up into that small of a ball! o man...To be continued..
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