On Tuesday 17th I was privileged to pick up the one and only Peezy-Petra, my dear tutor, dear friend, dear sister, dear go-bing (yes, bingo is one of our+Ansku's serious hobbies) third member and dear everything.
As she arrived in the morning we decided to take off to Amsterdam for the day.
Our first destination was the Jewish museum where we received the best hosting ever.
The door was opened by a lovely older lady, who welcomed us in with the biggest smile and warmest looks. She guided us where to leave our jackets and where to get free tour phones from.
"Girls, lets take a picture of you here."
"Girls, where did you leave your jackets? Lets take a picture of you in front of that spot."
"Girls, I love taking pictures. You two are so lovely, beautiful young girls that it is so nice to take photos of you. My hobby is taking photos."
The woman was just adorable.
We began our tour downstairs to the museum thinking that we were getting VIP guidance as the lady showed us where everything was. We checked out an extra exhibition and later the woman came to us, took our hands and passed us a couple of mints which she claimed she had nicked from the cafeteria just for us. First Finnish thought: "Why is she acting so nice, is she trying to drug us!"
The harmless lady let us continue our museum tour in peace, reminding us to go back to her if anything was wrong or we had questions.
We didn't find the museum as interesting as we expected it to be. At least it was an experience and we learnt something new.
E.g. something about this man:
Baruch Spinoza. And that Mr. Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon's bro, used to be the king of the Netherlands.
After the Jews in the Netherlands -museum we went to my favorite café of couuurse. We had to hurry, as it was already 5pm and Vennington closes at 5. Thankfully they kept it open so that we could order and get our tasty food and smoothies!
From Vennington we went to Anne Frank's house. I had already visited it with my mum but it was nice to go again, as it really is a good museum. Thankfully the queue wasn't too long this time, and we got in after a 15min wait. The waiting did feel long though, counting all the x's and o's the couple in front of us were giving to eachother! Oh my. We were planning on doing some interesting interruption.
We met up with Alex and Yana to go check out the RLD, La Place of the library (where I had never been before. wow the Amsterdam library is a-mazing!) and a movie, Arthur.
And about Arthur, ah, I can't remember. I was really unfocused and tired during the movie. But I remember it was funny and...I just need to see it again before giving more comments. Some jokes were pretty harsh but funny. Jennifer Garner had a role that really made me dislike her, though. What a witch role.
Lovely day, lovely people.
<3
Linda
ps. I'm having trouble with uploading pictures on Photobucket. The uploading is really slow and doesn't really work at all. The percentages get stuck at 9% constantly. Any tips?
pps. had a listen to gaga's new album yet? marry the night is my top1 at the moment, having americano as a definite dislike.
