**So I started this post like three days ago, but I’ve been pretty busy and typing on a Blackberry is kinda slow. Anyway, I’m going to finish it as if I did it all in one sitting. If there are a lot of errors and typos, sorry. If I feels inclined I’ll fix it later.**

I obviously didn’t get a post in last night. Cris and I had an extremely full day and I wasn’t up for it when we got back to the hotel. So here’s a quick rundown of what we packed into our last day in Amsterdam.

We started out at the Rijksmuseum. I’m not sure if a bunch of it was closed or not but the building on the outside is way bigger than the area we were able to walk through on the inside. Inside was a pretty interesting mix of artwork and artifacts from the golden age of Dutch history when the Netherlands was the great economic power in the world.

The next thing was the highlight of the day for me and that was the canal cruise. The weather turned out to be absolutely perfect and the city was really able to show off. We had already walked some of the areas the tour went, but it also took us to some places we hadn’t gone so that was cool.

After our tour we walked to a couple of old houses that they turned into museums. They have some of the old original furnishings and decorations in the houses and you can freely walk through and check them out.

From there we went up to the botanic garden to get a piece of Dutch apple pie in their cafe, which is supposed to be some of the best in the city, and to check out the butterfly house.

Next, we went to a little flea market because Cris likes to do random stuff like that and then to the Rembrandt House. The Rembrandt House was a really well done museum, I thought, but it was the end of our day and we were running low on time again. The saddest thing about Rembrandt is that as great of an artist as he was he was flat broke by the time he died and he was forced to sell off all his possessions.

That was the end of our touring day, but I have to comment on the place we went for dinner. Its called Pasta e Basta and its a musical Italian place. While you eat they have a guy playing the piano and every couple of songs one of the waitresses would sing a song as she walked around the restaurant with a portable microphone. Good food and a very entertaining meal. Definitely a good way to cap off our visit to the city.

Today we left Amsterdam to come down to The Hague, or Den Haag as I like to use the real name since its one of the few things I can actually say in Dutch. The Hague is okay. Perhaps we just didn’t know the right place to go in the limited amount time we had to spend here, but the city wasn’t near as interesting as Amsterdam to me.

Last night (Wednesday) after my mettings ou hosts took us back up to Amsterdam for a night dinner cruise through the canals. If you ever visit and you have the time and money I would definitely recommend doing both cruises. The city is quite beautiful at night and is worth seeing both during the day and at night from the canals.

I’m now on a train from The Hague to the airport in Amsterdam. I’m very tired…and the train is crowded…and I have to sit on a plane for over eight hours. This is going to be a fun day.