Europe Update! 5/31 Amsterdam Day 1 On Thursday we had our second ‘travel on our own weekend’ Ginger and I hopped on the train to Amsterdam. We had been to Amsterdam briefly a few other occasions but never to really explore the city, and we wanted to! When we arrived in Amsterdam we met up with Ginger’s older brother who was there traveling with friends also, and chucked our stuff in his room before heading to the Van Gogh Museum. It was raining quite a bit that day, but the city was still beautiful as we took the trolley through the city. The Van Gogh Museum was just an amazing place to stand in. At one point I was standing in the middle of the gallery and just turned in a circle as I just soaked in the fact that I was surrounded by Van Goghs. One thing that kind of surprised me was that Van Gogh was such a prolific, and talented, writer. They had a whole exhibit hall just about his writing, and it was so flowery and honestly I quite liked it- the more you know right? After wandering dazed through the halls, Ginger and I grabbed a lunch before retrieving our stuff and heading to Heiloo to stay with some family friends, the Hilferink. They welcomed us with open arms, and went above and beyond in their hospitality for us. We went with them on a quick stop to the grocery store which was also a cool experience, because they had these little scanner guns you took with you to scan items as you went. At the end you put it in a plug in and it transfers your purchases to the self-checkout machine. After the grocery store we headed home and ended up chatting for a while then heading our separate ways to bed. I hadn’t seen them in a long time when I was little, yet they were kind enough to welcome us with open arms and allow us to infiltrate their freezer. After a log day of travel and sightseeing, I got a very, very well deserved rest.
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