Amsterdam

Jason and I spent 2.5 days exploring Amsterdam and a few small towns in the Holland countryside. I must say that i was expecting Amsterdam to be very seedy and shady given all you hear about the Red Light District and the marijuana usage, and although there is that section of the city (which by the way has become very touristy), the rest of the city is quite lovely. There are over 1200 bridges cutting across skinny canals that are lined with houseboats and bicycles. I loved walking through the town in our hunt for the Original Dutch Pancake House, Anne Frank's house and the Van Gough museum

One of the days we took a tour bus (yes, a tour bus) to a few of the darling little villages on the outskirts of Amsterdam. We visited a windmill village, a fishing village, a cheese mill, a wooden shoe factory (did you know they are completely water proof??!!) and loved every minute of it. We laughed at ourselves as we climbed on and off the double decker bus, but we saw a part of Holland we never would have seen otherwise.