Amsterdam

I was really enjoying Amsterdam today, yesterday I was feeling like it was dirty and just not really feeling it, but today I awoke with a different perspective.  We got up early and hoped on a bus tour around the city to figure out where we wanted to go and what to see.  We went through the holicoust museaum and Jewish memorial.  It was really interesting but very depressing reading the stories of the children and families.  After that we went to see nd old windmill that was used to purify water.  

We went to Van Gogh Museum and stopped to take our pictures by the I am Amsterdam letters.  

   

On the way be back to hop on the bus we had to stop and play in the sprinkler.  This is a cool sprinkler outside the Rijksmuseum.  It shuts off when you walk towards it then once you standing inside of it, then it goes back up.  Kind of fun to stand inside a sprinkler.  

 

Last night we went to the Red Light District. I came to the conclusion that some things re just better not shared with others.  I understand that there is a different, more open attitude here about sex and everything, but walking around seeing those women standing in those windows, but watching men and even women talking about them like objects just made me feel icky.  Even watching families walk through there left me feeling really uneasy.  

To understand how open they are here about things, in The US we fight about transgenders going in the same bathroom.  Here the cleaning guy comes in the bathroom and is cleaning stalls and everything while women are going to the bathroom.  It is like it is nothing and no one seems to even notice they are going to the bathroom while there is guy in the next stall.  

Tomorrow morning we get up and head to Brussels for 1 night before heading back to U.K.  Hard to believe we are on the. Tail pend of our trip and that we fly home this weekend.