Amsterdam is well known for it's tea choices you know.

For someone who has drank less and slept more than any other time in my life, I certainly am tired.

We're seeing all sorts of things. The museums, the canals, dog crap all over.

I dont' have time to write. I dropped Alice for her nap and headed out on my own for a while. For a suburban girl I'm fairly savvy about finding my way around, I'm impressed with me.

I have some flickr photos up for now and I hope to get some more writing done, maybe tonight while Alice has her tea after dinner and I wish for Logan to be here to head to bar so I can have nice loud conversations and people watching.

The amount I drink is of great interest to the Bradley's. Of course their sobriety is of great interest to me. I had three beers with dinner and the conversation somehow turned to how you can't tell when alcoholics are drunk. Hrm? I am afraid to tell them I can drink far more than that at playdate. I shudder to imagine the looks. Of course, let's hope Alice doesn't read this site until we're home.

Our vacation style in the recreation department are seriously mismatched, I make Alice feel like a teetotaler and I feel like a lush in comparison to Alice and her Dad.

I'm honestly amazed people live lives free of any alcohol, even on vacation. I'm stunned. Utterly stunned. I just don't even want to imagine a life like that. It makes me tear up.

Anyway here are the pictures and I've been keeping notes so I don't forget things. The hardest part about being here is wishing Logan was here with me. It's not that I just miss him, it's that he and I are perfectly matched in the recreation department. In fact if he could just fly over for dinner and drinks each night I think things would be perfect.

Comments

[ChristyD]

I think it's so hard to find a good travel-mate. Your note about wishing Logan were there is so sweet. So many women (like me) would be relieved to be away from home for awhile and might forget about how nice it is to travel with the hubby. Have a great time.

[marian]

and you are already writing in the dutch i see! i'd drink with you if i were over there.... maybe some of those nice people who drank so much with the blurbodoocery will come and do the same with you. surely they must be somewhere in the vicinity?

[IrishGoddess]

Wow, that would be hard to hang with someone who doesn't drink. How does she do it? If it helps, know that I am with you there in spirit, and thus, you should drink more! I've always felt I'm a better parent because I drink.

[Andie D.]

OH I WOULD SO DRINK WITH YOU!

Why travel if you can't have some damn fun? Have to admit that I'm surprised by Alice. Would've pegged her as at least a glass or three of wine type of gal.

One of the reasons I stayed at my old company for SEVEN years was that we all had the same recreational style when we traveled together. Ah, good times.

[Kristin]

I would be your perfect traveling mate, other than the fact that I am pregnant so I can't drink. Normally, though, three beers with dinner is like a night off. Especially in the land of really good beer.

Actually, this is why I know this is probably my last pregnancy -- not having alcohol is pretty unbearable. I am so pathetic that I don't even like going out to dinner or traveling anywhere right now for the simple reason that I can't drink. What might be the point? Get full and go to bed? I can do that at home.

Enjoy!

[Jaycee]

How very cool that you are finding your way around on your own! I would be proudest of that. It's tough when drinking styles (or lack of them) don't match. I feel it every time I go out with a certain group of friends... I just don't drink like they do. And I feel like a total snooze.

[lindsayc]

it is odd when you are mismatched in that particular way. i come from a family and also married into a family where the pre dinner and dinner drink(s) are the norm. that said most of my friends don't drink or rarely drink, and think we are all a bunch of lushes! so long as you both understand each others point of vue, who cares and totally go to that bar yourself, savvy girl.

[Alice Bradley]

Jesus christ, people, don't you get comic exaggeration? I do drink, just NOT AS MUCH AS MELISSA.

Of course, that all changed tonight. I can barely type, what with all the liquor in my system. Holy freaking shit. Wheeeerrrp.

[ozma]

That sausage thing scares me.

[Belinda]

We're the sober people too, but I don't think anyone can tell; especially not with Alex. We're not in danger of being discovered, I don't imagine.

[zeldafitz]

Oooooooo, the mismatched drinker conundrum. So awkward! So difficult to admit that you just don't have as much fun as you would half in the bag! But if you look at things historically, the sauce swillers always seem to have the most fun, eh? Whilst our sober compatriots must have portraits deteriorating in attics somewhere...How is it possible to have sex and gab and sob without delightful inhibition-quelling lubricants? Je ne comprends pas. (That's Dutch for "Get me another beer.")