This adventure includes two guests — my friend Becky and her boyfriend Rob. You will see them periodically. The fun thing about this trip too is this is Becky’s first trip abroad, so everything is so new and exciting. I love seeing people experience the world for the first time.
Mattie also made her first trip abroad. And she’s loving it…
After quite a rocky start, we finally made it to Amsterdam! 17 total travel hours after a 5 hour delay in Philly. That means as of this entry (11pm Amsterdam time) we have been awake for 33 hours…
We hit the ground running — and instantly went downtown Amsterdam to start exploring. Well actually, we really just needed food so we went searching for a restaurant. Found a cute little cafe that we could sit outside in the beautiful weather.
We were then refueled to get through the rest of the day… walking through the square, along the canal and over to the famous windmills! My favorite part today was probably getting off the train at the windmills and taking in the whole aroma of … chocolate. Yes chocolate. Turns out we were walking by a chocolate factory and the whole neighborhood smelled exactly as you would want Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory to smell. I wish I could have bottled it up, because it was absolutely divine.
Anyways… exhaustion is kicking in and as always, pictures are better than words on day one 🙂
