My friends from SU and I took a weekend trip to Amsterdam from January 31st to February 2nd. We got there early Friday morning and I remember the airport being huge. We took a taxi to the hotel, checked in and dropped our bags, and then hit the city. The first place we went was Bulldog Café which was a typical coffee shop in Amsterdam, but a normal coffee shop for them is one where people can purchase and smoke marijuana inside and around the property. I actually got a coffee because I had been traveling all morning, but we met up with a group of our friends there. After we finished our business up there we walked through the streets and over the canals to get to the Van Gogh Museum. We bought our tickets at the door and headed right in. Inside we learned so much about Van Gogh’s history and saw many of his early paintings as well as self-portraits. After that, we were lucky enough to get tickets for the Anne Frank House. Usually, people would have to purchase these tickets in advance, but if you keep refreshing the website you can get lucky and tickets will become available later in the day. At around 4pm we showed up to the Anne Frank House, which I was truly very excited to see. As soon as you enter you can feel the history in the house. Guided tours were included in the ticket price and you were able to hear the whole story from start to finish. I spent about an hour and half walking through the house, up to the annex on a steep staircase and was able to see where Anne Frank and her family had hidden during WWII. It was an eye-opening experience and I felt very fortunate to be able to learn more about the Holocaust and Anne Frank’s story. The museum was one of the best Holocaust exhibits I have ever been to. After an emotional experience at the Anne Frank house we went back to the hotel to freshen up for dinner. We went to dinner at Casa di David and it was fabulous. After dinner, we headed over to the Red-Light District. This experience was something like no other. We went to Moulin Rouge in the district and it was quite the experience (I will leave this to your imagination). The next day we ate a lot of cheese at the cheese museum and went to the tulip museum. We then walked over to an outdoor market where we ate Stroop waffles and shopped. At around 3pm we went to the Heineken Museum which was so cool to see the behind the scenes of making Heineken beer. After the tour we were sent downstairs to enjoy the bar and get free beer (we spent a decent amount of time there of course). Dinner that night was at this tapas place called Happy Happy Joy Joy! Which was so fun and yummy. The next day we stuffed our faces with pancakes for breakfast and then headed back to the airport to go home to London.