Amsterdam

Amsterdam was another very livable city. It was only about 700,000 people and we could bike accross the city in about 15 minutes. The first day there we rented bikes and Carly (our old roommate) showed us around the city. We went to lots of parks and absored the sun while we caught up with her. That day was the hottest day in April for Amsterdam's history. That evening we went over to her house for dinner...we sat around the table drinking wine and talking about the world, when did we grow up?
Everyone in Amsterdam has a bike, but they're all the sit up straight, country ride type. Frank described it best, "I feel like I should be going on a picnic in the park with a girl wearing a sundress." On our last day in town, we biked out of town (8km one way!) on a mission to see some tulips and windmills. We found one ugly windmill but decided that the country was still pretty. We thought the bikes would be 19.50 Euro but the guy mischarged us for only one day. We were feeling poor so we took advantage of it so they were only 9 Euro.
We walked through the Red Light District which actaully glows red at night. The girls were all wearing their underwear and not doing much in their windows. Some were even eating or checking their email.
The toilets in Amserdam are worth a sentence or two. They have these odd shelves that we dubbed the 'shit shelf' which is pretty much a raised part of the bowl that catches the poo and leaves it above water so that it stinks. Its supposed to be some water saving thing but we didn't appreciate it.
Now we're in Berlin and have spent one successful night on our hostel boat. Its actaully a boat that floats in the water near the old wall. We have no idea what we're doing today but since BErlin is 8 times as big as Paris, we won't be walking the city!