Day 9-11

Yes, consolidated i know.

we arrived in Munich around 7pm if i recall correctly, and decided quite quickly that it would be much cheaper to rent a car for 2 weeks than take various trains all over Europe, so, that's what we did. By 9pm we were in our new rental car, a black 4 door piece of eurotrash (but it got the job done) by 11pm we had oriented ourselves well enough in the city to head northwardly.8 hours later we were in Amsterdam (it actually took until 10am to find the frikken hotel, and another 2 hours from then to check in, whilst everyone was essentially still awake from 6am the morning prior).

We managed to make it until around midnight on day 9 (roughly 42 hours without sleep) and a after a quick tour of downtown Amsterdam. Sleeping until 7am the following day. for whatever reason, we decided on a hotel that happens to be directly (and i mean completely in the path off) under the outbound runway for Amsterdam International Airport (what this means is, ever 5 minutes a a330 or 747 flys right over our hotel room), which has been lovely.

On day 10 we went for pancakes (which were touted as amazing, and was a true statement), which in turn was followed up with more touring, this time of lesser known parts of the Netherlands. We hit many strangely spelled locations (mainly having far too many duplicate letters in a row). afterwards we re-attempted downtown Amsterdam, this time with more sleep. I split from the group to see what all the less touristy places had to offer, and found another of cool bars and local hangouts (and some very nice locals). It ended up costing 52 euros to taxi back to the hotel (we're located in the middle of nowhere).

on day 11, we woke up in a relatively lax fashion, making it out minus Dustin around 10am, and back by 3pm. toured the city went for a jog (me personally) and re hit the old city center (a much nicer area than centraal station (i didn't add an extra a on accident). we turned in early today (around 11pm) so i could get packed and ready to head home.

I'm quite excited to be headed back to my refidgerator, I miss my daughter dearly, along with my Tiki, friends and family :). See you all soon :D