In the center of the city there is this slogan, "I AMsterdam". It's all over the place and pretty catchy. Elaina is in there somewhere it's kinda dark though.
Amsterdam has as many canals as Venice in Italy but that's not their claim to fame. What is Amsterdam famous for? I can't seem to remember. Here's a cool building.
Here there is no "traditional" Dutch food so you can eat anything from Mexican, to Japanesse, to Thai. Chips are huge over here, the British ones. We couldn't get enough of them and they really hit the spot after all the coffee.
This place only sells chips, it's called Chipsy King.
They we're good and HOT!
We walked by this tattoo parlor everyday and it was always closed. How do they stay in business?
Now I remember what Amsterdam is famous for, their agriculture!
Here's a view from the front of our hotel. It's one block from the redlight district. Tons of coffee shops everywhere. We got lost almost everynight coming home and we don't know why?
Since there's no Dutch cuisine. I guess it's beer and burger time. Of course we had white beer!
I told Elaina to get these but she didn't want them, they wouldn't stay on her face.
In the redlight district and another coffee shop. Whenever you see windows with redlights, those are prostitutes and it's totally legal. These were some of the prettiest women we saw in Europe our entire tip. NO LIE.
That's me going pee. They have these through out the city. It's just a metal sheild and a drain in the ground. You pee while people are just walking by, you can see them and they can see you. No time for stage fright here. The city comes and pressure washes them each night.
The large building in the background is the main train staion. In the foreground is the water bus that'll take you to your hotel for a small fee.
A cathedral across from the train station.
Pop Surrealism or Lowbrow art... Some of the type of art Elaina is into was loaded in this store/art gallery. She bought a book with works by artist Joe Ledbetter (Los Angeles artist).
My kinda of place!
Elaina really wanted to get a tattoo so she did it. It came out really nice and will forever be a souvenir of our trip. Amsterdam was the only city we were that had tattoo shops. Elaina had the itch to get another and found a small open space on her arm for a new tattoo.
This is a piece by Joe Ledbetter in the book Elaina purchased aaaaaaand this is her new tattoo. A cuddly zombie bunny.
A view of one of the canals. It was a nice day this day.
Here's another water bus.
This was our second favorite coffee shop. Good times!
More chips please! I don't know why they call the place mannequin piss though, Elaina seemed to like it. YUCK!!!
They were announcing everywhere that the city cleaners were on strike so the city was "less clean than normal" I guess that's a nice way of saying DIRTY AS HELL.
Another canal
This was our favorite coffee shop. They had the best hot chocolate, Elaina couldn't get enough of it!
More city
This was our stupor home each night.
One last view of Amdsterdam before we leave.
We loved Amsterdam so much and we didn't want to leave. We were like kids in a candy store here but we knew we had to go back to Paris for a couple days before coming home. Little did we know that plans were about to change./
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