Last day in Amsterdam and off to Paris go! Its raining like mad and we spent a good part of the day attempting to buy our train tickets for the high speed rail. Megan booked her ticket at our apartment's WiFi after re-trying the process with 3 different cards. Just as she was trying to book Vivi and my tickets, we received an error. Somewhere in that time the price had jumped from 90€ to 130€ and it wouldn't let us book online. We took a half hour walk to Amsterdam Central station, waited in the wrong line and then waited in the right line. After about an hour of waiting, the ticket attendant informed us that the train was over booked and we would need to buy stand-by tickets. We sucked it up and finally bought our tickets.
I had purchased online tickets to the Rijksmuseum and that afternoon was our last chance to go. Since everyone in Holland had Monday off for holiday the museum was packed. The Rijksmuseum has been closed for the last decade for restoration and it was only recently opened in the last 3 weeks. Our timing was impeccable minus the fact that we only had about a hour to walk around since it closed an hour earlier than we expected. I recommend visiting it but plan to spend at least 3 hours, its huge!
I was super hungry and a bit of a grump by the end. We finally found a thai restaurant after dodging a myriad aggressive offers from restaurant hosts for free drinks and 15€ steaks.
We headed back to our apartment where we met our new flat mates. The Australian mother and daughter had arrived from London and were cooking vegan food in the communal kitchen. We had a delightful conversation and shared travel stories. The daughter kindly offered to make us tea. Megan and I sat down and blogged for a bit. We've been fighting over the wireless bluetooth keyboard, thankfully Vivien has a laptop!
Good night!
Xoxo Shenzi
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