Going to Brussels and Amsterdam was a very interesting experience. It was the first time that I had to travel alone through europe, so I was a little bit nervous. Everybody else left thursday night and I left on friday night. I took a bus all night on Friday night to Madrid and caught my plane to Brussels at 730 am. That was an experience in itself! An all night, uncomfortable bus with a baby crying behind me wasn't a very fun way to start my trip. Not to mention, the Ryanair airplanes! They don't call themselves the low fare airline for nothing. They cut back EVERYWHERE they can. The seats would not recline one bit, I had to have my feet in the aisle in order not to suffocate, and I couldn't even get a drink of water for free, but it was cheap, so that's what you get I guess. I finally made it to the airport in Brussels to realize that I had to pay 13 euro to take a 45 minute bus ride into the city. At least I was finally there! In the bus station, I had my first interesting bathroom experience. It was the first time I had to pay to use the bathroom. I had to pay .50 to go to the bathroom and all the while, a large Dutch woman is trying to talk to me in a language that has a very strong resemblance to the teacher in Charlie Brown.
Haha It was the first time I had felt clueless with a foreign language. I never thought I would miss spanish so much! I met up with Molly and Josie and finally got to do some fun stuff! We walked around the city and pretty much just fed our faces all day. I had the most delicious eclair of my entire life, a Belgian waffle with tons of goodies on top, and of course some CHOCOLATE!! Ahhhh I was in chocolate heaven. The fact that they gave out free samples wasn't helping much either! We went to see the famous statue pipi which is a tiny boy peeing. Literally. It was the strangest thing in the entire world, but funny to see. After all of this, we headed to Amsterdam. The first night in Amsterdam, we had a very hard time finding our hostel. We used up our entire allotted hour of metro use because we kept getting off on the wrong stop. Luckily, people are nice there and happy to help us. Wandering into the red light district on accident was a little scary, but funny as well. The hookers standing in the window weren't the awkward part, it was accidentally making eye contact with the man coming out of the building haha. The next day, we got up and went to see the Anne Frank. I don't think that anybody else really enjoyed it as much as I did, considering they weren't hyperventilating as we were approaching the building hahaha. The only bad part, is that they wouldn't let me take pictures, but oh well. It was the most powerful thing I have ever seen. I walked through the tiny space that 9 people lived in hiding for 2 years. It was definitely an experience. After I thoroughly depressed everybody by making them go to Anne Frank we at awesome pancakes with tons of goodies on them and then headed back to the hostel because it was getting late and it was really cold and rainy. 
One amazing invention of Amsterdam: The strupwaffle Mcflurry. Yes everyone, I went to McDonald's lol. It was the best ice cream ever! I had 2 in two days, which isn't too bad considering I have zero self-control. The next morning we woke up and pretty much just went to a lot of coffee shops and walked around the city to take pictures because it was finally nice out. The city is so beautiful. There is a canal that runs everywhere throughout the city, which was a surprise to me. Also, all of the buildings are so skinny and close together. It was unlike anywhere I had ever been before. Later that day, we went to the Van Gogh museum. It was so cool to see all of the original Van Gogh paintings. The next morning, we had to wake up early to catch our bus and head back home, but not without stopping so that I could buy my weight in chocolate bahahha You didn't think I was going to leave without some did you?
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