Hallo! This is Brandy, again, and still in Amsterdam :). Today was essentially a shopping day. :) After having a nice breakfast from the bakery, sis and I went to a souvenir shop and Chimera, which is this neat fantasy shop (coolest I have ever seen). Then, of course, we went to de Bijenkorf where I got a hat and we looked at lots of clothes (which we didn't buy). We had a couple of cappuccinos at de Bikenkorf cafe, La Ruche, and a slice of appel pie ... well, I think it is an apple cake or tart :).
After shopping, sis and I headed to get some Vlamise frites (Belgian style fries), and I had mine with fritesaus (mayonaisse essentially), while my sis had ketchup. Mmmmm. Later in the afternoon, we went to O'Reilly's Irish Pub to have a late lunch with our friend. Then, we did more shopping at the Magna Plaza, which is a nice shopping center right next to our hotel. We went to Albert Heijn again, mostly because we wanted to eat a little something healthy--so we brought fruit. I was just going to have fruit for dinner, but we ended up at Oriental City--our favorite Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam. My sister meant to order pipa tofu--which is fried tofu balls with diced shrimp in it... but we ended up with half a duck instead. It was still very yummy though... but I guess ordering in Cantonese in Holland isn't the same as Cantonese in the US :). After dinner, we ate the fruit that we got as well as some gevulde koek (filled cookie--with almonds). And then, we watched Hollow Man on TV... we're pretty good at picking out crappy movies to watch on tv.
Okay--side note about the whole Amsterdam trip... I swear people just walk into you here. In the department store today, sis was walking and then someone just walked into her from behind. I saw the whole thing... and it was very strange... how can you just walk into someone from behind while looking forward? This other time, I was between two small shoe display rows, and there was a wall at the end... so I was essentially standing in the middle of a U. So, this lady comes there and blocks my exit while looking at shoes, and I move towards her... and she doesn't move. I have to say "excuse me" to get her to move out of the way. Helllooo? Why would you just block someone's exit. Then, I was getting onto the escalator, and someone with a ladder wants to put it right in front of the escalator (and block half of the escalator entrance)... of course--I'm in the way and he almost hits me. But really, what's the deal with people getting in your way all the time. It is the strangest thing.. but on a sidewalk, if I am walking on the right, someone coming towards me will just walk right towards me and collide with me if I don't move (even though they could walk on the left). Argggggh. Hehe, time to go home before I start beating up tourists and crazy Dutch ladies.
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