Day 9 - we wish we were still 17

On Saturday we woke up early and enjoyed the complementary breakfast at our hotel, and made sandwiches for lunch from the breakfast buffet (yay ham and cheez!) Then we went to the Van Gogh museum, which is around the corner from where we are living. When we bought the tickets, which were a whopping 14 euros, we realized that 17 and under get in free, and we said we were 17 but they needed ID so we still had to pay =( for the first time on this trip, we wished we were under age! The Van Gogh museu
was cool, but a bit of a rip off. They say that they have over 200 paintings, but most of them are his earlier works that are very average Nd dark and replicas of other paintings. They only have like 4 famous ones And the most famous, the bedroom, was under restoration. But we did learn more about van goghs life which was interesting.

After van gogh we went to the rijksmuseum which is full of old Dutch paintings that are so realistic it's scary. We didn't like it too much so we left quickly. We walked to this area called "the nine streets" which is a shopping district with a lot of expensive boutiques. Here were also some vintage stores which we discovered are such a gimmick! They sell urban outfitters clothes and say they are vintage and hey had my Fred flare sunglasses! The other vintage store called episode is a chain vintage store that has he same fake vintage stuff in every store! I saw the same sweater in the episode here and te one in Brussels. RE-DICULOUS!

After some window shopping we went to dinne and then to the Anne Frank house which was so cool and very moving. We went Ito the secret annex. Otto frank preserved the annex but decided that he wanted the rooms to remain unfurnished, but the photos that Anne put on The wall are intact and the stairs that go up into the annex are insane. Actually, we've realized that all stairs in holland are insanely small, steep, and windy. It's like straight out of a German expressionist film. At the end of he exhibit they had anne's actual diaries which was surreal to look at. We left the house and decided it was our favorite museum of our trip so far