I made it to breakfast a little earlier so it wasn't as big of a mess as the day before.After yesterday's taxi debacle I was determined to make it to the Van Gogh museum first thing.
I caught the tram and walked, I got a bit lost, but I managed to find my way on the map. Again there was another long line up, but it didn't take long to go through. I've got two favorite all around painters, one being Picasso and I had already been to his museum in Paris, so I was glad to finally get the chance to go to the Van Gogh one. Again we were not allowed to take pictures, but I managed to sneak a few with my iphone. I truly enjoyed this whole museum, which also featured a lot of other painters that were inspired by Van Gogh or Van Gogh had been inspired by them. He did lead quite a tragic life, but at least now we can celebrate his legacy.
Walking around and looking at his paintings reminded me of back home, or my old apartment as I had a huge print of starry night in my kitchen up until the week that I left.
After that I had an expensive average meal at the museum, I had no idea that just outside and had plenty of food carts! There was also a great park an another I Am Amsterdam sign just around the corner.After the museum, I headed back to the city and explored on my own for a while. Then I met up with Kieran, the Canadian guy for lunch.
After lunch, I rested up for a bit then I met up with the other guys, Brad & Adrian.
We made plans to go to a Sex show later that night, Adrien would be bringing some of his friends that were flying in that day from Dallas. We all meet up, and head down to the red light district for the show. We'd already decided that we were not going to sit at the front, for fear of getting pulled in for audience participation. The place was a lot smaller then I thought it would be, for some reason I pictured some sort of Auditorium, but it was a small room with benches surrounding the stage, kind of like church without the bibles! So we all squeezed into the bench and got some drinks. The first lady that came on seemed a little older, she danced around the pole and then she called a guy to the stage and pulled some sort of neon tape out of her vagina and wrapped him and the whole stage, it just kept coming out for ages! The second girl that went was very good, and could work a pole. She called the same guy up to the stage and she wrote sexy on him with her vagina. The third girl, was the banana lady, this time she called about 4 people to the stage including a girl and had them eat the banana out of her vagina. The grand finally was the couple having sex, well sort of...they didn't finish each other off, but you got the point. So in all I enjoyed the show, it was not as uncomfortable watching as I thought it would be.
After we went back to the hostel, I got one of my roommates Megan to come down to the smoking room. The good stuff was smoked, pictures were taken and conversation was had. Adrian was in the bar area having drinks with his friends from Dallas. We all (Adrian, Brad, Megan, Kieran, Dallas boys and I) decided to go down to the red light district again. This time though, we would seriously be shopping for women. Things happened (;-)), then me and Megan joked around about how funny it would be if we could go in and watch Brad in the booth. Well the joking around turned into a reality, after some shopping and negotiating Wana from Romania agreed to let me and Megan watch for 25 € each. I was curious to see what it looked like inside the booth, Wana's happened to be quite small so we all squeezed in and Megan and I watched the action unfold. For those of you that are interested these ladies don't come cheap 50 € will get you 15 minutes, two positions and she doesn't take her bra off. So I got to see a live show twice, I definitely felt like I had, had the full Amsterdam experience. After that somehow our group ended up splitting up, Megan, me and Brad decided to look for food. We ended up going to this place that sells these amazing fries, apparently it's famous in Amsterdam but I don't remember the name. They were seriously the best fries I have ever had. We called it all a night, I had a plane to catch the next day to Ireland!
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