It's Okay, We're with The Bridge!

HOLA. Since our last post, we have done a lot of exciting things here in Amsterdam. The next night we spent in bed watching a movie called Threesome. We were a little skeptical at first, but it ended up being a really funny/weird/comedic performance of the 1980's. When Carla's aunt came to check on us she asked us what we were watching. Ofcourse we didn't want to sound like we're sex fiends, so we just said "I don't know." This is when she proceeds to pick up the remote control and go to the T.V. guide page and find out what it is called and what it is about. We felt like we were 10 years old sneakily watching some R-rated movie or some shit it was just horrible. "Okay girls, it's called Threesome." We replied with the "Ohhh okay we didn't know." Meanwhile there were sex sounds coming from the T.V. because two of the characters were about to do the nasty. This all in all was a terrifying moment for Carla. She just shruged it off as best as she could.

The next day, we went on a canal ride and went to a really good cafe afterwards. We shopped a little bit and we bought Holland shirts which you will see in the pictures. The only bad thing about wearing bright orange shirts here is that people come up to us and speak Dutch and us being stupid Americans are just like no no, we don't know Dutch. And then they wonder why we have the shirts...it's a big mess. We went to Carla's uncles to watch the game for the first half and then went to a pub for the second half and around the Red Light District. For those of you that don't know, the Red Light District consists of streets with windows and girls in them half naked. They lure the men in and then bang them....sweet huh? Well, the ones we feasted our eyes on were no pretty sight let me tell you. More than one were quite hefty and the rest were just plain hid thinking they're sexy. We went into a dead Irish dive bar and met a nice couple from America (The guy was a gemologist hahaha) and a nice guy from Melbourne who we ended up hanging out with the rest of the night. We forgot that the night bus runs once an hour, so when we got there really high we had just missed it. So, we walked around holding hands in our Holland shirts and just said "Nay" which is how people here say no. We didn't want people to think we were lost etc. because Carla was very uncomfortably high. After we waited for an hour we got the night bus home.

Yesterday we went to the Van Gough mueseum which was really awesome and then walked around a bit. We were really excited for the bridge to play that night. We got ready, and took the tram to go see them. We weren't really sure what to expect but we knew we were going to yell something along the lines of "We're from Baltimore." We finally find the bar and it's completely dead and they are in the back room with about 5 locals listening to them play. We had come up this whole plan on how to meet them/ hang out with them earlier that day but considering we comprised 20% of their listeners this was no hard task. Their manager and friend were at the only table so we talked to them and explained how we love the bridge etc. We tried to get all the locals to dance which were 5-6 80 year olds with missing teeth but failed. Finally when they got more booze in them they started getting up and dancing as best as an 80 year old can. Yay!
We were pretty much the life of the party and the manager said it sucked that not a lot of people were there because they were playing really well that night. We felt like it was a private concert or something which is sawweeeet.

Afterwards we ended up going to another bar with them and hanging out with them til dawn when they had to catch a plane back to the states. Carla kept saying, "It's Okay, we're with the Bridge" and when we walked over an actual bridge she said, "The bridge is walking over the bridge." She thought this was quite witty but, everyone just laughed at her.

Today we basically slept all day, had a nice Indonesian dinner, and topped that off with a little Love Actually. Katie is currently on the third book of Harry Potter re-reading so she can finally read the last ones.

Tomorrow we are planning on going to some more museums, walking around, maybe smoking some doobies as Carla's sister so nicely put it on the phone while Carla's mom was in the room. (Thank you for that one.) We're staying for the Holland vs. Russia game on Saturday and then departing from here on Sunday. Germany, Belgium, or Sweeden....not sure which yet.

We hope everyone had a good time at Bonaroo if you went! We want to hear the stories:)