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All year, I planned to take my vacation in Amsterdam/Belgium and now that time has arrived. To get me started for this elaborate vacation, I was invited to the Menchaca's double birthday party in Stockton. They had make-your-own burrito buffet set out, they had a live mariachi band and they had an Elvis Presley impersonator. When the Elvis impersonator left the building, then they started playing good dancing music and one of the songs was "Let's Get it Started" by the Black Eyed Peas. When this song played, I knew I was ready for Amsterdam! Everyone at the party did a 'soul train' and I had visions of Amsterdam in my mind!

My Adventures in Amsterdam and Belgium

PaulDaleRoberts
2007-01-29 11:34:14

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she said Spanish. Talk about putting my foot in my mouth. She was still quite friendly and provided me with all kinds of interesting information about Belgium and other sights I should one day see. Interesting fun facts of Schiphol is that there are women janitors that clean the men's bathrooms and there is a fly sketched in the inside of each urinal. For what reason I am not sure.

Another Netherlands native by the name of Yameh assisted me in locating a comic book store called Go Joker Strips and Comics, another place in which I promoted my upcoming movie The Legendary Dark Silhouette. I met Krissio Baker who was visiting Amsterdam, she was an American girl staying at a hostel. She explained to me that in her hostel, 12 men and women sleep in the same room and use one bathroom. Everyone in the room become quick friends and that everyone parties together. She told me that one day I should experience a hostel. Sounds like fun, but I like my privacy, I will stick to the Best Western Bastion Hotel.

Another American I met was Stephan Egeberg Hausen from Ohio, he was from Iowa and has family he was visiting in Germany and Denmark. Stephan was in Amsterdam to have a bit of fun. Stephan enjoyed telling me about his travels and experiences. If you, the reader, ever stop in Amsterdam, make sure to take a city tour. Yes, the canal boat ride was a blast, but a city tour will give you a lot of history about Amsterdam. My city tour, I saw where Rembrandt walked, where Rembrandt lived for 24 years of his life, where the 1928 Olympic Games were held at (in fact Johnny Weissmuller who played Tarzan gained his fame at these games, this is where he won many of his medals), Concertgeboew (where you will find famous classical musicians playing at), Museum Square/Van Gogh Museum that have Van Gogh paintings, etchings and sketches. I learned that the prostitutes of Amsterdam were once known as Dutch widows, sort of a joke amongst the people of Holland. The prostitutes ...