Amsterdamned

Ok I'm late again. But I am going to catch up now. So hang in there.
The weekend of February 1st we went to Amsterdam. Not going to lie, for all the hype around Amsterdam its lacking for sure. Not to say that it isn't a beautiful city, it's just not worth the hype. I was however rather surprised about the beauty of the architecture of the city. Also, there are canals everywhere in Amsterdam which are beautiful to walk along.
When we arrived we headed out into the city, it was night time and we hunted about for a place to eat. Everything is Amsterdam is really expensive so we settled on an adorable little Italian place, with a kitty in it, who was not friendly. It was late so after that we went to sleep.
In the morning we took quite the adventure out to Amstelveen to Clara Maria's clog and cheese factory. Aside from the fact that it was the worst smelling place I've yet to come by it was incredible to see how they make clogs and how they make cheese. We got a history lesson and learned about how the lady who owns the place stayed at it when it was a bed and breakfast and met her husband there where he was milking cows. She decided to stay and marry him and run a cheese and clog factory. Crazy!
After that delightful experience we headed back and met up with our friends Katie and Jen at the Anne Frank House. We found a little pub for dinner and I ordered dutch meatballs which are not meatballs at all but fried balls full of gravy and tiny bits of pureed meat. I was disappointed. Afterwards we just wandered around Amsterdam and experienced the night life.
In the morning we hit up The Van Gogh Museum which was nice to see, they did not have Starry Night though which was sad. Then we went to the Anne Frank House which I enjoyed even though everything in the house was a replica and it was room after empty room. I just think it's sad that real people lived like that. After that we went to the sex museum which was an experience for sure. It was rather amusing and full of 17th and 18th century sculpture of sex and sexual paintings and so on. There was also a lingere section and plastic people and a triple X room that we skipped out on. After all this fun Katie and Jen decided to meet up with their friends and Becca and Jenn (my travel buds) and I decided to head home a little early to make it in for Carnaval which was the next day!