Amsterdam the weather

Just arrived in Brussels after a three hour train ride from Amsterdam, so I'm going to keep it short but the hotel here in Brussels has free Internet so I'll post more extensively over the next four days.

Friday can be considered a travel day, all day travel day that is. Our flight was delayed over an hour, leaving us sitting in the airport for a good amount of time. The flight was only an hour long once we finally did board and take off, barely any time in the air with the seatbelt sign off, I think I got through four songs on my iPod before I was told to turn it off again for landing. Once we got to Amsterdam a train took us to center city, then a tram to our hotel, with some confusion thrown in there with which tram to take, causing an unnecessarily long walk to our hotel. Who knew we would ever be so excited to see a holiday inn?

Today we woke up early to eat and then catch a free tour of the city. The tour was great, our (austrailian) tour guide knew the city well and had lots of great stories and history for us, but unfortunately the weather refused to cooperate. It went back and forth from sunny skies to torrential downpours and sometimes both at the same time. It made for wet and uncomfortable touring over three hours, but I never felt bored by the tour. Nate met up with us after the tour, he and I will be traveling together until the 7th, becky and her roommates leave brussels on the 5th. We then found shelter at a restaurant for lunch and waited out the rain. When it cleared up we explored the city canal streets more, seeking shelter whenever and wherever necessary when the rains came.

Around 8 we headed back toward the train station and caught our train for Brussels shortly after. A busy and wet day, but we had a lot of fun and I found Amsterdam to be a pretty cool city.