Amsterdam: Day 2

Day 2 we frantically tried to fit in everything we hadn't already done. First we went to a market that we read was cheap - but it turned out to be pretty boring. We left and hit up the Heineken factory. We didn't pay to do the tour, but we went to the gift shop where you can buy a bottle with your name on it. I considered getting some for the beer-drinking men in my life, but the cost to ship it home would have been insane.

Then we went to the Van Gogh museum, because he's Dutch and super famous. There were a lot of well-known works, including: The Potato Eaters (aka The Momo Chas), Sunflowers, his most famous self-portrait as well as a handful of less famous self-portraits, and paintings by people inspired him and people who he inspired. Starry Night wasn't there, though, that painting is in NY.

After Van Gogh we went to the flower market, which we thought would be cut tulips and other flowers, but it turned out to be bulbs and seeds. After a quick lunch, we went to the Anne Frank House.

We got super lucky because there was only a (relatively) short line. At the house you can tour the actual annex the family lived in, which was very interesting but also pretty heavy. If you don't know the story of Anne Frank, Wikipedia it.

To lighten the mood, we decided to PUB CRAWL!!!

The crawl was awesome, but all the photos are on Kim's camera. We went to 6 bars, and at each bar we got a free drink. Not mixed drinks,mostly beer, although some places gave us wine or a tequila shot. Also, the pub crawl workers squirted some vodka-drink directly into our mouths as we entered each bar. It was classy, lemme tell ya.

After getting home at 3:30, we were definitely looking forward to checking out by 10am and moving on to Brussels....NOT.