Amsterdam: Just My Size!

OK, so I feel like Goldilocks a bit in Amsterdam because everything is... "just right" for my tiny self-- tiny houses, tiny sinkes, tiny toilets... which is funny because the Dutch seem to be kinda tall and big people, but enough about that.

I took a lovely canal ride from Anne Frank House towards the museums and had a little lunch by a moss-covered fountain outside the Rijks museum.

I went out at night with a really cool girl I met at the hostel named Leslie, who has been traveling alone in London and Paris for a while. The most amazing things were coincidental-- she went to Cal, she had my exact same luggage (except smaller, because she's smarter than me), and she is interested in women and war/human rights law and other topics you all know I dig (but most other people don't). So we had a great time going out.

She and I both wanted to take a look at the famous red light district, but didn't want to venture alone and female in to that environment. so it was very informational and eye-opening, and we were both glad to be there together because we were pretty much the only women in sight not for sale... bizarre........ and hopefully Leslie'll email me the pictures she took so you can see the craziness too.

After a long day of fun and walking everywhere (so many canals!), I took a free shuttle to the beach (about halfway between Amsterdam and the Hague) and will stay at a hostel there for 2 nights. More soon...