Okay, The City of ""Wow""

Here we are and, yes, it's everything that we had expected and hoped for. Maybe even more I think. I've been to a lot of places in my four years of living here in Europe and this place, Amsterdam, seems to take everything that is possible in a whole continent and plunk it right in one small city. All we can say is Wow!!
The woman are gorgeous; the men too, but I have my fears that most are gay. Alas, good thing I have Gerhard. Just try to keep your eyes open and not flicker onto 25 things in one minute. It's impossible. The smells --oooohhho, the smells. Marijuana everywhere mixed with the wet smell of canal water in the air. Something all its own here.
We got off the train - a relaxing trip but very crowded, and then headed straight to the tourist office as usual to get a city map, some advice about our next train ride and how to get to our hotel. Very friendly people here who ALL speak english. We subbed to our hotel to find an adorable room. Shocker of the year - to watch tv in our room, it will cost 25€ for the stay - yeah right, who thinks that I'm a sucker. Who needs tv anyway when I can poke my eyeball into a small little hole in the red light district and see any show that I want?
G and I walked for three hours this afternoon and took a million pictures. Hit all the bars and ""coffeeshops"" that we could in our area and brought home a supper from a local grocery store which is our habit to do.
Our new little laptop is doing just fine however, our plug-in device to convert energy doesn't work lately because all the plugs are inserted into a hole in the wall and won't let the prongs reach. Oh bother!!!
Tomorrow, we head out to the Red Light District and then to Van Gogh (my favourite) before we take in a tour of the Hennikien Museum and the Hemp, Marj and something else museum. Busy day, better go have a glass of wine to calm myself down. Life is great!!!
J and G