Days 2 - Amsterdam

Day 2 - June 19

Kevin finally got to Amsterdam around 5pm. He had two very long days of travel (he left Portland late on June 17th). When I got back from work, we headed out to "see the city" and have dinner. We walked from our hotel to the Dam square, had a beer and then headed down a side street - to get away from the tourists... It was much calmer and quieter as we walked away from the square. After dinner we tried to get back to our hotel. Tried being the key word. Before leaving the restaurant I asked for directions to the hotel, she pointed to the right, so that is the way we went. We left at about 9:45, we finally got back to the hotel at 12:30. Yes, 12:30. I don't think you could be more lost then we were. We kept following signs to Centraal Station, but couldn't seem to make it there. We ended up walking in circles far to the east of where we were supposed to be. We tried to orient our selves with the maps at the tram stops but didn't do a very good job of it. Maybe we just weren't seeing the road signs (or they didn't exist), I am not sure. After we walked around the same windmill about 3 times we decided to stop for a beer (at 12am) and then gave up and took a cab home. We had been walking away from our hotel....