Amsterdamaged..

So I'm in Amsterdam right now but here's what's happened since then. Nancy and I went to Oktoberfest. That was one interesting place. Oktoberfest is pretty much like the OC fair + liederhosen and LOTS of beer. We got there around 11am and then walked around kinda of confused as to what was going on since there were already people stumbling all around. We walked into a couple tents..(you have to be seated at a table in the tent to be served beer) and while we were standing in the Hofbrau house, some Italian guy asked us to sit with his friends. Naturally we knew this was probably a bad idea...but beer is 10.50 euro a stein (1 litre) and we figured we could get some free beer out of it. Anyway, the guys were sleazy but we each got two steins and then ditched them. Hooray for free beer!

Here's the math on that one:
2 steins each at 10.50 = 42 euro which is approx $65!

Ok, so after we ran far far away from the sleazy italians, we managed to find our way into another tent and each buy another stein. We were sitting with some Australians who told us the Aussie lyrics to the Prost song that gets played constantly in the beer tents. (I'm aussie, I'm aussie, I'm drinking a stein!) Trouble sets in right about now...3 litres of beer means you need to pee...I went to the bathroom and returned, Nancy went, and never returned. I waited and waited, and wandered and called and waited and then finally I walked around, took some photos, got a brat (sooo good!) and then some crepes (delicious!) and then sis and interview of myself on my camera. (Awful) and then I called her some more and then finally around 10pm (after being searated for almost 5 hours) I got on a train to Salzburg. Some woman puked on the train and a man in liederhosen kept taking up all the room in our compartment. Gross.

ANYWAY! Nancy did return the next morning and she said that she spent the evening walking into every tent asking if they had seen her friend. But that was all the description given. Haha. She also missed the last train and had to spend the night in the train station and then go back in the morning. All worked out! We went back the next day and bought some souveniers and then headed back to salzburg and went to bed early.

After Salzburg, we went to Cologne, Germany. Nothing too interesting happened there. Of course we sampled the local beer and went to dinner with one of the guys in our hostel and I tried Currywurst. It was good...kinda like BBQ sauce on a big hotdog. Haha. The next day we walked around a bit of Cologne and then headed to the timeshare in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is awesome. We have this cute cabin in the woods and we've been eating and resting (in attempts to thwart our illness....not working) and watching TV in ENGLISH! They have 2 movie channels that show awesome movies allll day. Love it. Today we're in Amsterdam because our attempts to get to Bruges were killed when a woman told us that no trains were going out...some strike or something. We've already seen some titties in the Red Light District. Amsterdam is an interesting place. Haha.