Amsterdam!

We made it to Amsterdam! Sorry for the lack of writing, but we are just having way too much fun out and about town and I am exhausted by the time we get back. The last few days in Paris were amazing! We ended up seeing the Bastille Day fireworks at the Eiffel Tower which were absolutely insane!! They took up the ENTIRE sky and went non-stop for 40 minutes!! It puts the Vancouver Celebration of Lights to shame. I tried to upload some pictures, but the internet in this hotel is wayyyyy to slow to even load the exporter. The next day we went to a sewer museum, which took us underground to an old London sewer. It was stinky. We went to the army museum, where Brendan looked around for a billion hours and I sat in the courtyard and read my book (Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch). On day 6 we woke up early and went to the Eiffel tower! Finally! We got there at 830 and waited until 9 until it opened. We got up right away!! It was everything I imagined it would be! So magical and cool and pretty. The only downside was that you obviously couldnt see the Eiffel Tower in the Paris city skyline, my favourite part. All in all, Paris was lovely! Truly truly magical and I cant wait to visit again one day! We had to catch a 6:25 am train to Amsterdam the next day, which was quite the ordeal! We were told the metro started at 5:30 and the first train we needed to catch didnt come until about 5:45. We decided to take try and take a taxi instead of the second train, but none of the taxi drivers spoke English and wouldnt take us for some reason! They kept pointing in one direction so we sprinted (with our big backpacks and at 6 in the morning) to where they were pointing and to our surprise our train station was there, just a few blocks down! We sprinted to the train terminal and made it!
We are currently in Amsterdam in a lovely lovely hotel. It has a gym and a sauna and free breakfast that has freshly squeezed juices, dried fruit, granola, pancakes, bacon, pastries and more! Much nicer than the free breakfasts offered at our hostels that were literally just bread and jam. Yesterday, we walked around our hotel to a nice park where we discovered a large windmill! Today, we went into town and walked around the canals. There are so many bikes here! The roads always have a bike path that is at least 4 feet wide and every spare rail has bikes chained to it. We are planning on renting bikes for a day and experiences true Amsterdam life. Tomorrow, we are going to the Anne Frank museum and then buying tickets to a hop on, hop off canal tour. We can jump on any boat within a 24 hour period and create our own little relaxing tour of the city.

Will try to right again soon!
Missing everyone at home and hope everyone is doing well :)