Amsterdam

Amsterdam was great! It was the land of 'plans shmans'. We started to do so many things, only to change our minds, but we really liked everything we did.
Things we ALMOST did:
- visited the Prostitution Information Center (explaining how prostitution functions in this country)
- had a Heinekin Factory Experience
- visited a museum we know as 'the craft thing' (it has a really long ditch name that neither of us remember.)
- visited the Anne Frank Museum (waited in line for an hour before giving up and getting bagels)
- bought coats (too expeeeeennsive and not perfect!)
- rent bikes (we got a ride on a rickshaw though!)

Things we DID do!!!:
- walked around a LOT
- went coat shopping a LOT
- went to the largest market in Holland (not very large)
- visited the oldest botanical gardens.
- went to the oldest comic book shop in Europe
- visited the infamous red light district
- sampled many cheeses and bought several
- Emily went to the Rijksmuseum (an art museum stuffed full if Rembrandt)
- ate at a three-story Chinese restaurant
- had Belgian waffles (and a LOT of other sweets)
- went on an amazing bike tour which included a tour of a cheese farm/wooden shoe place.

We were surprised by a lot of things about Amsterdam. For instance, we had no idea it was so riddled with canals, or that Dutch sounds SO much like English but gibberish.

Also, fun fact: there are more bikes than people in Amsterdam. This place is FLAT.

We head to Munich in almost 8 hours, and then hopefully on to Leah's great uncle and aunt's house in Rutzhofen.

Madrid and Amsterdam

So of all the places to be in the world, Madrid is not the worst. We definitely wouldn't call it the best either though. 
The best things there were 

1. The gigantic, enormous, huge street market that we wandered through for hours and hours
2. The Garden of Earthly Delights (one of Emily's favorite art pieces)

Fortunately, we are now in Amsterdam, which is a rather lovely place! The transition from Spain was rather shocking, since we left a place with no humidity at 90', and were welcomed by a miserable, gusty, cold rain, but today was sunny and warm(ish) and perfect, and the weather-app predicts more of the same. Hopefully our luck will hold out, but just in case we devoted all day today to shopping for raincoats (nothing purchased yet though).

Tomorrow, we will explore the city outside of the stores.