Dam good city!

So incase you were not aware, my two friends Aly and Stacey and I are doing a 4 day lay over in Amsterdam before we head over to Uganda. We got here safely yesterday and it has certainly been an adventure ever since! We were so excited when we found each other at the airport, and after a while we figured out how to get on over to our hotel. Our hotel is pretty nice haha certainly nothing special but its all we need, a place to sleep. We have to go up three flights of stairs to get to our room, and they are seriously the steepest stairs I've ever been on. It was hilarious trying to get our bags up them. That must have been a site to see! We spent yesterday walking around and just seeing the city. We all missed home a little bit so when we saw the hard rock cafe we had to get dinner there (i know, laaame) haha but we were glad we did. As we were sitting at our table, none other than a bunch of lds missionaries came walking in! It was so fun to see them, we talked to them for a few minutes and then headed out. We explored some more and eventually made our way back to our hotel. We went to bed pretty early because we were so tired. Apparently we reallllyyy needed sleep..because we didnt wake up this morning until 1230! ah i havent slept in like that in so long, it was definitely needed though. Even though we got started late on our day, we got a lot accomplished. We found our way easily over to the Van Gogh museum (we're basically pros at Amsterdam now haha). It was so cool! I really have such an appreciation for art now that I've taken my humanities classes. It was so neat to see paintings in person that I studied at school. We then went over to the Anne Frank house which was really cool too. It is so amazing to actually see the places that I've learned about growing up. I feel so lucky to be able to travel like this and experience other countries! The culture is definitely very different here haha definitely a litttttle different from Provo; there's the constant smell of smoke for one thing. I love being here though it's really fun. I can't put up pictures right now, but hopefully some soon! We leave in 2 days for Uganda and are sooooo excited. It is going to be so amazing! Love you all!