Day 7 – Amsterdam

Day 7 – Amsterdam:
Natalie had conference sessions in the morning, so I slept in. When I finally got up, I decided I would be good and work out (even though we've walked a billion miles, I haven't gotten a real workout in). Oh how quickly your body hurts when you haven't been to the gym in over a week! It was good though, and I wasn't in too much pain afterwards.

We met up for lunch and went to a bustling part of town. We had odd sandwiches (I went for something local and it was lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and egg on top of a thick slice of buttered bread). Natalie’s looked a lot more tasty and normal, it was mozzarella and tomato on bread. After the peculiar lunch we went to a pancake house for dessert and split a pannekoeken for dessert (a sweet pancake, famous in Amsterdam – ours had chocolate and banana on it, it was similar to an open crepe). We did a little shopping, then she had to go back to the conference, so I continued to wander the streets. I stumbled upon the flower market, so I walked through it – there were so many beautiful flowers – I wanted to buy them all!





After Natalie got off of work, we went to central Amsterdam and took a canal cruise. This is one of the “must do” things in Amsterdam. It was pretty cool, but since we had been on the other tour a few days before, it wasn’t quite as exciting as we were anticipating. It was also raining most of the time, so that probably didn’t help things. We’re still glad we did it though, and it was relaxing and fun.

The rest of the evening entailed pizza (yes, they make that better than us, too!) and walking around dam square.