My excellent friend from HS came to visit and it was about a year since we last physically saw each other (skype not included). Anne was stopping by the A'dam for about five days before she heads off to vienna for her music festival for about a month, comes back for a day and then fires back to canada and then fires back out to spain for about eight months for more lessons with a world renowned cellist.
anne makes out the trip to biljmer (work) to join us for drinks... too bad I couldn't really join them cause the guy that interviewed me over the phone (not my manager) invited our department for drinks as he was transferring to london.
Anne borrowed my bike during the day and at first she was scared to use it cause she was afraid that she forgot how to ride it but she got on and successful navigated the city! and then I come home and she tells me she slowly fell off the bike and had a little scrape... haha.. SUCH A TOURIST. After the drinks we headed to the KEANE concert which was outdoors and it was raining hardcore that day! woohoo (pics to come)
Headed to the RLD after dinner and I think we walked for about 30 mins before Anne wanted to get out... she was all quiet and awkward ha ha... by teh time we got back we were beat and headed off to bed.
Saturday we have a first breakfast together and we spend the day to navigate the noordmarkt and hang around the jordaan area.
Cheap ass flowers from holland. She said her mom would be there everyday.. I said my parents would overload on the 5 euro orchids.
the noordmarkt has an organic section with over priced fruits and vegetables.
Market also sells everyday things and antiques as well.. definitely my favourite in the city in such a chilled out neighbourhood.
after the market we head to Singel 404 for some sweet open-faced sandwiches and lounge out side along a canal. The lady we were sitting with kept talking dutch to me cause I was using simple dutch words to converse with her - I guess I could take it as a compliment for her to think I was a native speaker.
After lunch we head to the Jordaan area to walk around, look for a gift for my room and possibly find something to wear to the konichiwa bitches birthday party that night.
found some free ads at the episode store so we went with the Yakuza gang - 80,000 members and growing!
Konichiwa bitches party happens here (pics next post) - we party till 3am.
minutes after this photo was taken she realized she left her cell phone at my place. so then I had to mail it to her... aiya so MA FAN.Anne gets up at 9am to go pack and catch her 12pm flight to austria. When we get to Schipol and she takes Luthansa to Austria, the women asks if she's checking in her suitcase AND her cello and Anne says of course. We then place both luggage things on the weight thing and then the woman says "you know you're over 20 kgs", and I say "well that's because you still have the suitcase on there" and the woman says "that's because it's 2o kg max each person." and that's when it hits me... european to european flights you get MUCH less luggage.. I thought maybe with the bigger airline is better but nope. so anne had to pay 10 euros each kg she was over. so Anne was freaking out but there wasn't anything she could do. So the woman writes up a slip to pay at another counter and notices she only write 15kgs over... and when we get to the counter, the woman has a double take and goes "15 kgs?!!" and Anne confirms... I think the attendant felt bad and noticed only charge Anne 110euros at the with the 10 euro processing fee so all in all still paid a lot but only half of what she was suppose to.
After that she's was on her way!! Oh my little Anne.. all grown up!
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