Holy Schmidt, I'm in Barcelona!: Chapter Four: A Quick Summary of the Past 3 Weeks Part One

This is going to be really vague since I keep not having time to update this. Besides the typical days of long lunches at delicious establishments such as bo de b, walks around the beautiful city of Barcelona, and having a great time at night(when I am not extremely exhausted which seems to be a lot of the time), I really want to write about my travels in as concise of a way as possible.

We traveled to Amsterdam over our first long weekend from Feb. 17th until Feb 20th. I loved the city and had a nice time. When we got there, we headed to our hostel which was supposed to be right outside the Red Light District. It wasn't until the point when we saw our hostel sign right next to a sign for a live show that we realized they may have embellished a bit on hostelbookers.com: we we're staying in the heart of the Red Light District of Amsterdam. Besides being grossed out during the day and sketched out at night, our hostel was a little on the dirty side, but I want to not complain because it is all a part of the experience of traveling.

The first day in Amsterdam was great and filled with amazing free cheese samples, a great trip to the market, the best bagel ever(it was 9 euro though, Amsterdam is honestly so expensive that I would cry if everything wasn't so delicious), and an early night. By this, I mean Laura, Rachel, and I fell asleep to nap at eight and may have slept through dinner by accident. Shit happens when you have a 6:45 am flight and an eventful day in Amsterdam.

The next morning we woke up early to go to Sarah's Pancakes for breakfast. I got a cappuccino with the most amazing banana and nutella pancake EVER. Then, we went to the Amsterdam sign I believe? I can't really remember the order of what we did, but the sign was really fun to climb on and take pictures. We also went to the Anne Frank Haus that day. It was really overwhelming and eerie, but I am glad that I had the opportunity to see something that is so important to history. It was much harder to see than I imagined though. I think it is a place that everyone definitely needs to go. We walked across the city to Heineken that day and it was closed because we have bad luck, so we went to a bar and went back the next day. It was fun and we also went to the Van Gogh Museum, which was great. I also went to DJ Tiesto which was a little much for me, but fun because I got to wear neon. Always a silver lining. Anyway, sorry this is actually the worst writing ever, but I am really tired and just wanted to get this one done before writing all about Sevilla tomorrow.

In summary, Amsterdam is really fun with great food and sights, but it was freezing and once we were done, I was thrilled to be back in sunny Barcelona.

Thats all for now, Adios!

Lauren