The weather here in Europe has been amazing. Every country and city I go to the locals keep talking about how lucky I am for getting such good weather while I am here. I guess it can still get crappy and cold during this time which is normal anywhere. Today was an especially nice day very hot but enought that I can handle it. I set out this morning to hunt down the chocolate muesum. It was not that far of a walk, I just need to cross this huge bridge and wala I was there. The muesum was kind of neat, they take you through the whole process from how the get to cocoa nuts out of the trees all the way to how they ship it. The next room was the Lindt room where ... read more

It was a hot beautiful day, Gin and I went to find a canal cruise tour. We did many detours getting there because Gin needed money and it was not easy finding a cash machine. Somehow I am having a hard time spending my daily budget which is really good, I think I might have only meet it once and that was in Amsterdam. Gin and I have the same budget of €60 a day and that includes our accomadation and somehow she spends it everyday.We did stumble across the alley that had the huge case of close to all the Belgium beers and there glasses. Next to it was the biggest beer shop in Europe, it was two floors just full of beer and glasses to buy, Aaron would be broke when he came out ... read more

I woke up at 7:00 am so that I could get my stuff together because I really don't want to leave anything behind and having Aaron saying 'I told you so'. We want to try and find a market store so that I could get some Nuttela and Stroopruafels before I left The Netherlands because I need them and when Ingebord or Emiel come to Edmonton for a visit they better, hoping they bring me some...Hint hint. Breakfast consisted of left over pizza and a small Mcflurry that we picked up on our way to the train station. I got on the right train to Brussels and said good-bye to Ingeborg. I switched trains in Brussels and was on my way to Bruge. Once I got there I need to to other walk across town or ... read more

I woke up early because today I am saying good-bye to Emiel and getting on a train to Maastricht where Ingaborg will be meeting me. I got on the wrong train somehow but I think it was the train station fault because it did say it was going to Maastricht. It was not a horrible mistake, I ended up in Haarlen and I just switched trains there and it only took me 20 mins to get to Maastricht from there. I had to wait for Ingaborg for a little bit because of the mix up but once she got there we were off to her brother's place so I can dump the load. First we stopped at a tourist shop so we could book our tour for the underground caves tomorrow. Her brother lives in a ... read more

I woke up at 6:00 am and just layed in bed looking out the window watching people start there day from the apartments across from me, they are a rock through away. I had a croissant with cheese for breakfast before heading out to concourse Amsterdam alone. I first headed to The Anne Frank house which was not far from where I was stayed plus we walked by it yesterday so I knew where it was. I only had to stand in line for about 5 mins which was not as bad as some stories I’ve heard about waiting half and hour. You were not allowed to have cameras in there so sorry no pics. The lay out of the place was done very well. You learnt about Anne and her family going through each room ... read more