First night in Amsterdam

So we got into Amsterdam around 5pm last night. We should have got in a bit earlier but our train ended up breaking down a few stops from the city, so we caught another one and we made it a bit late... amazingly enough, these are the only hitches we've been running into on our entire trip thus far.

On the train from Brussels, we were seated next to a guy from Wisconsin, who's staying in a houseboat here in Amsterdam for a month. He gave us a heads up on a few places to go while we're here... mainly a good place to watch the World Cup game tonight... which is awesome considering the Netherlands is playing Uruguay tonight, it should be epic. We told him we'd probably see him there or give him a call if we needed some better directions.

So when we got in last night, we made our way to the hotel and just walked to find a place to eat... and it seemed like Everything was closed...wtf. We found a good spot and from there we found out a cool place to shoot some pool. We've actually played in some awesome pool halls in our travels thus far, so that's been nice. The place we were at, had 7 snooker tables and they kept pretty busy on them, which is something you'd never see in the states, practically anywhere. After pool we got back to the hotel and our first night was actually nothing to really write home about... but I just did soooo... yeah. :-p

Today the first order of business is to find a place to do laundry, then we'll get all touristy for a bit and go watch the game later. It's 11:15am now and about time we get the day started, so with that said... I may update this later, or I may not... depends on how the rest of the day goes. While reading a book a few minutes ago, the quote of the day said: "If you've never taken drugs recreationally, don't start here." I'm still on the fence, as almost everyone that's ever known me, knows full well I've never been into any of it... but I'm in Amsterdam where many drugs are, in fact, legal. As the saying goes... "when in Rome..." I guess we'll see.

So, if I don't make it back to blog again because I smoked a joint and did some shrooms before getting naked and running out in front of a train at full speed... thanks for reading the blog. lol