Last days in Paris and Amsterdam

So the day after my shoe broke we got up and then we went to the Effel Tower but we did not climb it because we had a dinner date with ken Neuman and his family at noon and if we waited in those lines we would never get out of there. It was beautiful day so we got some perfect pictures!!! We then had lunch at Ken's and it was nice meeting his family. They are from Texas but had lived in paris in 1990 til 1993 and now were here for three months this summer. After that we went to a museum that had everything in it and I mean everything! We ended the day by going to where all the artists are painting. That was the hot spot and we just had fun people watching and listening to little bands along the way.... oh and eating crepes. :) On Sunday we went to meeting with Ken and then we went to the train station to get a train to amsterdam. We waited in line forever because we had to get a reservation and we got one then for like a little over an hour so we just killed some time and then we took the train first to brussels and then Amsterdam. We got in around eight and our hotel was recommended to us and we had no idea how to get there. After walking around for i don't know maybe 25 minutes we finally found out we just needed to take tram 2. We got on tram 2 and the people kept piling in and before long we were just crammed in there. So you can imagine getting off. We had to lift our suitcases above everyone's head hoping that we would not knock them out. If we did who knows if they would even know. We did find our hotel and it is very nice and is located in a good spot once you find it. We walked around til about 11:00 last night and then I was dead tired so I made ann call it a night:). Today we got up and first went to the Anne Frank house. It was very sobering and it was very interesting to see everything from that portion of history. After that we went to the Van Gogh museum and even though I'm not big on art museums this one was good.  Then we just strolled around and since it was in the afternoon and not night we took a walk down the red light district. Very interesting to say the least. You can do anything in Amsterdam I am pretty sure. We also did a boat tour of the city which was about an hour and then came back to the hotel just to rest for a bit and I am sure we will be going back out tonight. We have to check out tomorrow at 11 and then will probably get a train to Brussels. We have a hotel there for tomorrow night and then a flight out of Brussels to Dublin Wednesday morning.