Jour 19- Anne Frank House and Pub Crawl

Saturday came around and when we said we were going to wake up at 9 a.m. to go to the Anne Frank house, we were lying....again. We woke up at 11 a.m. instead. I took a gnarly shower in a gnarly bathroom with no towels (i used spare sheets instead) and got ready for the day. After feeling slightly cleaner, Natalia and I went to visit Libby and Jordan who were staying in the room below us with 4 other randoms. The guys turned out to be super cool. They were all from Kentucky and were a little older than us (24 or so) and were traveling. One guy, Brandon, worked on cruise ships, so he travels around a lot during his time off. Kind of a cool job when you think of it. We talked to them for a good hour and told them that we should go to pubs later. We said bye, and were off to the Anne Frank house/museum.

The boys did their own thing. We went and got lunch, hit up a coffee shop and then went to the musuem. The Anne Frank house is a place everyone should visit. Standing in the place were she was in hiding for 2 years was remarkable. The rooms were not furnished, it was Otto Frank's wish that the room be left empty, as it was when they were discovered and the Nazis seized them and all of their belongings. The most interesting part was Anne's room that she shared with her younger sister, Margot. On the walls, "to make it look home-y", Anne had glued magazine clippings of actresses all over the wall. To see that was amazing. It was part of her personality on the walls. I really enjoyed the tour, and 8.50 euros was definitely worth it to experience a little bit of history.

After, we went to shop around for souvenirs and then headed back. We all took a nap and then around 7 we met up with the guys in Jordan and Libby's room. All of us (the group including the new guys) went to "De Rockery" which is a pub/smoke shop and we hung out, drank beer that we thought was real beer but really nonalcoholic, and talked. We left there shortly b/c all we wanted was a place to drink real beer, so we hit up a local Irish pub nearby our hostel for a bit.

After, the guys went off to the Red Light District again, and we went to a few more pubs and McDonalds. I said I would not eat Mickey D's in Europe and I ate it practically every night in Amsterdam. DAMN IT! After we got home and went to bed around 12:30 a.m. Tomorrow was going to be a big day before we left. On the agenda: IAmSterdam sign, souvenirs, and Heinken Brewery.