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Tuesday.
We got to sleep in a little today! Today was our free day, but a lot of us wanted to get up and get to the tower of London. Ate breakfast and were walking to the tube by 8:45.
The tower of London was pretty cool. It seems like a very big attraction for tourists. The crown jewels were held in there which was my favorite part. Unfortunately, there was no photography allowed so no pictures of the massive diamonds. I think all of our legs are slowly dying cause we kept on finding benches and sitting for 5 min then walking for 10 then getting tired again haha.
Some of the girls wanted to go see the british library before the treck to Harry Potter; I had to stay with the group but I just sat on a bench right inside and people watched. My dogs were barking! Plus, people watching is one of my favorite things!! Haha Dave hates it cause I'm always distracted slash just staring at people.
We were on our way back to the tube when we saw lots of people crowded around a hotel entrance. We asked who they were waiting for...the Spice Girls!! Oh yeah we saw them! Ok just kidding....it was them but they were taking their sweet time to come out and we had to make our Harry Potter tour time so we had to leave. Super lame.
Harry Potter was awesome!! Pictures say a lot...there coming I promise! We saw a lot of the real sets and props used for the movies at the Warner brothers set. We have all been having money troubles towards the end of our stay in London cause we are trying to get rid of our cash but we needed cash to get back on the bus! Haha the bus driver was a saint however and just let us all on for the 1 pound we had! Thank you mister bus driver!
Some of us were hungry after and we saw some chick out on the streets of Leicester square with 50% off coupons to a little restaurant. We broke college students took that deal however they barely made our 45 min time limit! We booked it through china town trying to get to the theater on time for Singin in the Rain. People were probably thinking "those crazy Americans" haha.
The musical was awesome! It helped that we were third row..."the splash zone". It really rains and the actors kick lots of water on you! It was funny and a musical I'd recommend!
We all made it safely back to the hotel and I showered, repacked my stuff, laid out my clothes for a early 5:30 wake up, and now I'm in bed. Tomorrow we travel to Amsterdam! (lets do some drugs!! If only I needed more field experienced for my substance abuse class haha JUST KIDDING, TOOTS AND POP!) until tomorrow!
Wednesday
We had an early 6am checkout from the hotel and headed to Earl's Court tube station for the last time. We took that to King's Cross where we boarded the eurostar train to Brussels and then to amsterdam! Pretty awesome I must say. I wish the states had more public trains like that one. I would ride it all the time!
I took a little snooze listening to my girl carrie underwood. Then, I woke up in brussels! We all forgot that the language is not English from here on out... This should be fun. First we thought our train to Amsterdam was on platform 19 then a native said 5...they were wrong it was really 19! We didn't make the first train obviously so we crashed in the middle of the terminal for an hour. Ps. I'm learning how to hold my pee. It cost 50 euro cent to go to the bathroom... Awesome
We got on the next train and realized it stopped at the airport...not all the way to Amsterdam, but it was pretty simple once we realized the next train on the same platform was our train to Amsterdam! This language barrier is not the simplest but we are working on it!
There are so many bikes! Holy cow!! We got to hotel van gogh and it's a lot nicer than London surprisingly. The shower head actually stays on the wall! Haha we are in bunk beds, but the best part is free wifi and more than one outlet.
Our bus driver is pretty funny. His name is Patrick and he's from holland! He decided to give us directions to Dams Square...we walked and walked and walked and walked and over an hour later we were on the opposite side of the town. We had to take the tram to get to the square and by this point we are all starving. Last thing we ate was at 7am and at this point it was 7:20pm. We went to this tiny pizzeria that barely held all of us spread out.
The pizza was pretty good! I think anything tasted good for how hungry we were. We headed back to our meeting spot and the two guys left us 7 girls to go check out what the boat rides were all about. We girls are not exactly comfortable being by ourselves in amsterdam. Luckily they were quick and we only got a few creepy looks...
We wanted to make sure we got back by dark so we got back on the tram and made it back in a fraction of the time. The stroop waffle places were all closed :( but they were right near the Amsterdam sign so we took some pictures. By this point we were all ready to take advantage of free wifi!! Back to the hotel!!
Amsterdam is definitely not my favorite. Glad we aren't here for too long...13 hours to be exact from start to finish!!
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