Our Last Day in January and Half of FebFirst

Yesterday we got up early cause we had to change hostels. The plan was to get up at 8:30 and meet by nine but I arose at seven, unintentionally, and had a nice time slowly packing up and getting ready for the day. I was down in the lobby messing about on my computer before my alarm went off. Pat joined me at the appointed time and after breakfast we still had an hour to go till check out and an hours and a half till we were due at next hostel. We decided to use the excess time to relax in the common room. After about an hour we collected our stuff from our rooms and proceeded to our next hostel. When we checked in there and got to our room, there were some Australians who had been using the room for the previous few nights. We chatted for a while as we settled into the room but soon I was off on a two hour nap. When I awoke we decided to walk around and explore the city some more, with the secondary goals of finding an ATM and some food. After a while we had found and used an ATM but had not found a place that looked inviting for food so we decided to head back to Wok to Walk. It was still amazing and we will likely be there again soon. After that we dropped by the hostel and after a while decided to venture out in search of a liquor store and supermarket, for absinthe and snacks respectively. Mission accomplished we got back to the hostel and sampled our loot. In short nougat is really good and absinthe is really bad. After we had adequately sampled each, we decided to go walk around the red light district. That was a surprising amount of fun, scantly clad women in the windows trying to entice you is a pretty funny experience. Once we got bored of the spectacle we decided to get food and ended up at another Burger Bar. After a bit more wandering we called it a night.

February 1^st, we got a good night sleep last night and awoke this morning to the problem of not having a hostel past tonight once again. We decided that we would battle against our hostel’s crappy internet and get rid of this problem for the future of our stay in Amsterdam. The biggest problem in solving this, internet not included, was that Amsterdam get super packed on weekends causing prices to rise and availability to plummet. Additionally most hostels, or at least the available ones, required a minimum of two night stay at the hostel over the weekend. After much research and deliberation we decide on the Bulldog for the night’s of the February second and February third. It was a bit pricey, even all things considered, but it is bound to be a fun time. We looked for a less expensive yet still fun place to crash for next week and decided on St Christopher's at The Winston. We booked in there till the morning of the Eighth at which point we will likely be leaving this great city.