It was cheaper to keep us in Amsterdam for an extra day than to send us home on Saturday, so we had a day to ourselves. Travis, Lex, and I decided to go to the Rijksmuseum and then to the Anne Frank house; Alex had lived in the Netherlands before and had seen them all; besides he had a test online to take. So we left him and toured the museum and saw a lot of Rembrandt. Quite a good collection there; well worth the time spent.
We then walked to the Anne Frank house as the tram we wanted to take must have been decommissioned; it was shown on the maps but not at the tracks. Oh, well, so we have sore feet. The tour was sombering; not much left there after the Nazi's cleaned out the place after they were discovered. But you could imagine what they had to go through.
We met Alex outside after the house and went looking for some lunch. We eventually found some subpar schoarma; not quite what Alex remembered but still good. Then it was time for some souvenir shopping and we ended up around the Dam. My souvenirs consisted of a hat as I was getting sunburned and some french fries (the best in Amsterdam so the sign said). Pretty good, but I like the ones I had in Dusseldorf 2 years ago much better.
After a quick stop at the hotel we set out in search of dinner, eventually ending up at an Italian place near the Renaissance. Alex and I had the sole; it was good but there wasn't very much. So after wards he and I went searching for a real schoarma and finally found one, much to the amusement of the others. That one was really good. After getting that down we made it back to the hotel and prepared for leaving the next day.
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