amsterdam day 2

More blogging from the blackberry. After a tiring, whirlwind day of sightseeing all over amsterdam we are trying to gather the strength to get a taste of amsterdam,s nightlife... We'll see. As we stall we thought we would try to put this day into words. Jetlag sucks. Slept last night from 9 till 2 then wide awake from 2 til 5, then slept till 8. Weird. Ate breakfast at our hotel - a hard boiled egg in a little egg holder, toast, cold cuts, and inexplicably, chocolate sprikles. Couldn't figure out what they were supposed to be for, maybe my hot cocoa but it was plenty chocolatey. Nor do I know if they call them sprinkles or jimmies or something dutch heh heh. Anyway after breakfast, we went to anne frank's house. Everyone who told us to go early to this, thanks. We just beat the queue. It was neat to see though obviously very depressing. People suck. anyway after that we did some shopping, went to a hemp store (there are many) and I bought a slightly overpricwd but cute shirt, some gifts, and a cannabis lollipop I have yet to try but the girl at he store said it will just relax you not ge you high but I haven't tried it yet. This might be the closest I get to trying pot. We also wandered through s fsrmers market and were impressed by all the cheese. Then we checked out the pozenboat - a boat inhabited by stray cats looking to be adopted. Super cute, onwe looked just liker libby (sion and bianca's mother). Then we shopped a little more, stopped in a cafe for a light lunch (more pancakkoken for me,) and made our way to a canal boat for a tour which I thought was way duller than the city itself when you're learning about it from a monotonous prerecorded voice, bleh. But cindy got some nice pictures on board which hopefully I'll be sble to post tomorrow. Then we headed this way via the red light district which was basically as it is described in all the books. Prostitutes wave from re lit windows, pot is sold (and bought) everywhere and sex shops line the streets. It was definitely interesting but I was glad we were staying in the quieter jordann district. We got turned around a couple times trying to get back here, scarfed down some indian food and came back here to do some stretches and relax. But now it is after 9 pm, we're still jetlagged, cindy fell asleep as I was writing this so I am not at all sure the nightlife is in our future. At any rate, hopfully pics coming soon, more amsterdam tomorrow then onto brugge! Stay tuned...