26 Hours of Travel? Okay...

On Saturday, we got up at 8am like we hadn't been dancing and drinking all night. Without any delays or mistakes, we:

-Caught the bus from Kristiina's apartment to the Uppsala train station
-Caught the train from Uppsala to Stockholm
-Caught the train from Stockholm to Malmö
-Caught the train from Malmö to Copenhagen

After a lovely day of running between and sleeping on trains, we caught the 16-hour train from Copenhagen to Amsterdam. Luckily, it was a sleeper train, so we had reserved beds and did not, in fact, have to sit up for 16 hours.

Our train was a few hours late, maybe 3, getting to Amsterdam, but that was fine - we've been in much worse train delays.

We successfully found the hostel when we arrived in Amsterdam, but it was too far from the city center for walking (1 train stop away). We desperately wanted to shower (we felt like we slept on a train!) but we couldn't check in for a few more hours, so we dragged our filthy selves back downtown to go to flea market our travel books said was on Sundays. Turns out its NOT on Sundays, but we got some exploring in anyway.

Hostel review:
We stayed at StayOkay, which had a chain of 3 hostels in Amsterdam. It was huge, with tons of rooms. Ours had 6 beds an a bathroom en-suite. Kim and I quickly claimed the upstairs loft, which had metal blinds that gave us some privacy and sheltered us from early-morning sunshine. Breakfast was great and filling, with a large selection. Everything was clean and all the other stuff you want in a hostel...the only downside was that internet cost money (3 euro/hour) and it wasn't in the city center, so we had to take trams or the train into town - it was only 10 or 15 minutes away, but its still nicer to be able to walk. On Tuesday we had to take a cab because trams stop running before 1am.