I arrived in Amsterdam at 10am. The fist thing I had on my agenda was to take a canal cruise of the city. I actually didn't know this before, but Amsterdam is built on a bunch of canals, much like Venice. The cruise lasted a little over an hour and I was hitting the streets by 11:30.Now most people when they go to new cities tend to go to the more historical sites, like the Van Gogh Museum. HAHAHA not I! I wanted my day in Amsterdam to be filled with fun so I did take in 3 museums while there, but not the types you are thinking. ;)
My first stop after grabbing a quick bite to eat was the Sex Museum. Yup, I thought, why not? It ended up being, well lets just say, very interesting. There were some things that made me laugh, some that made me a little shocked and some that I couldn't even believe would make it into a museum at all. There was some crazy stuff. After a few pictures and a few laughs I was on my way to the next museum of choice... the museum of Bols!
The museum of Bols is a museum where you get to smell, touch and taste how this particular brand of alcohol is made. It was pretty cool. Once inside the first room was the taste area. There were two samples to try which actually were just a samples of berries. the second area was the smell. There was 30 jars set up that you could smell. These weren't smells of alcohol but the ingredients in them. So fruit, herbs, extracts, etc. The third area was were we actually got to pick out the drink we wanted to try. The lady tending the bar made me my drink, which was actually pretty cool to see being done. She actually put 2 strawberries and 2 orange slices in my glass and then just smashed them up, added the sugar and the alcohol and my drink was made. Pretty cool. After I was done my drink (which took about 3min) I went back up to the bar where I got to taste test 2 other types of alcohol they had there. I picked the Blueberry and the Raspberry to try...both yummy! So after about 10min and 3 drinks later I was on my way to the next museum.
The third and final museum on my list for the day was the Madam Tussuad's Wax Museum. Inside you will find celebrities, presidents, etc and they are all made out of wax. Super cool! It took about an hour and a half to get through the whole museum but it was well worth it. As you can see here I ended up getting my picture taken with George after all! Can you tell that we are having a deep conversation?!? I also had my pic singing with Elvis, hugging MJ, standing with Princess Diana and as you can see, Spiderman is saving me from off of a wall. 
Once I was back in Helvoirt, Brent and I decided to go find us some chicken as it was as close to turkey as we were getting. We cooked it up and had a great meal. All in all my trip to the Netherlands this past weekend was very fun. I had fun every day and the country itself is very beautiful. The people also were very friendly and everyone was very helpful. I was glad to have gone and a little sad to have left. I'm not sure if I will ever make it back or not but either way I can now say I have been and had a great time overall. I would highly recommend to the Netherlands to everyone!
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