Amsterdam

Well okay here is going to be the issue at hand. I want to blog and update but I usually end up writing in my journal first and that's no fun writing the same thing twice and vise versa if I blog first. So hmm we'll see how that works itself out. So Amsterdam.... (journal entry)

Well Amsterdam came and went pretty fast and now we are on our way to Cairo. We had a blast playing tourist, but I guess we weren't playing because well we were tourists. We went into a "coffee" shop and had an interesting time seeing the Amsterdam scene. We hit up this place called Mannican Piss - yes you read it right. It was a fry place that sold fries with ketchup and mayo on top. Sick I know but we had to - it was a cultural must they say. The logo was complete with a little boy peeing too - it was pretty classic. We walked the town, the canals and the fun stores. We saw the red light district and bought a few souvenirs. Oh we found an epic book place where I grabbed a "dummy" book that had a few poems in the first few pages (in dutch) and the rest were blank - aka the best journal I could dream of. We hit up another coffee shop and have some more "legit" coffee. The train ride was uber fun and the delirium of traveling for days with no sleep started to set in. Re and I would laugh about nothing for ever. We continued to dance across the nation (literally -- wait for the video at the end of the trip). It was a fun experience, the architecture was amazing, the weather was beautiful, the people were a kick and the culture totally something I've never experienced. The exchange rate was about .69 euros to a US $1, so things got spendy quick. I'm still pretty suck so I spent more money on cold meds than I would have wanted but it was beyond needed. I got to skype my Papa today, which was totally worth the extra euros.

Well so that was my journal entry that now I re-read it sounds so not personal. God did some serious work on the leg of our trip and the anticipation of more people we are going to meet gets me super giddy. We have met some awesome people and had some epic conversations, especially on the plane rides. God has opened up some great opportunities to poor into our fellow travelers.