Posted: Tue 4th May 2010 10:39 pm
Awesome report and pics. Always brings back great memories of how Amsterdam is!!
We get on the tram (very buzzed) and go to the Rijksmuseum. The tram police got on and checked everyone's tickets. I'm glad my friends and I actually had tickets, as some unlucky guy got nailed.
At the musuem, we check out the masterpieces. Is this museum ever gonna be finished with the renovation? I mean, it's been going on forever!
The IAMSTERDAM sign is in front of the R Museum, so we have to take pics in front of it. We had lunch at a restaurant/bar on the corner. I feel very touristy today, but hey, aren't we? I even got to try bitterbollen. It was OK.
A couple of quick bowls and on to the Van Gogh Museum. We check this out fast because Mary is so done with museums. I lead the girls to the Albert Cuypmarket, not to shop but to finally go to Katsu.
From the tram, There's a rock show at the...
Katsu is very crowded and extremely smokey and my friends want to bail immediately. So I tell them, "I'm not leaving until I buy the MJ I've heard so much about". I buy 2- E 20 bags of Black Widow. I didn't realize that the weed is pre-bagged here, but I checked it out and it smelled and looked great.
Ok, let's go, I wanted to check out de Graal. We walk back thru the market, I grab some bakery munchies for now and later. We find de Graal and it's pretty quiet. Weird layout though, you have to go back out side the door to make a purchase, if you have been here, you know what I mean. I buy 2g of cheese and Mary buys something also. AJ seems a little shy about buying weed, but contributes monetarily. I LOVE going to the counter and checking out themerchandise. And buying! What fun, it is so the reason I'm here.
So down the steps, (which I almost fell down
) to a comfy table. We roll up a j of the black widow, a j of the cheese and a j of the stuff Mary bought. I so enjoyed that session!The scene in here gets a little weird. Some chick asks to borrow Mary's lighter and is going on about something. She starts stretching on the floor and doing yoga. She seems to forget she has our lighter. Some other guys come in that Mary said made her nervous and now she wants to leave. I thought she was being paranoid and AJ is oblivious to all! But we leave anyway cause it's getting late in the afternoon and we want to go home and chillax.
I almost get us lost on the tram by going the wrong way on the wrong line #. We are so baked and laughing our asses off. We eventually make it back to Dam Sq area and I talk everyone into checking out the RLD cause AJ has not seen this part of town yet. We walk through it and there are drunk guys yelling and carrying on. We decide that this is not fun, but you know what is? Vapo bags at 4:20!!!!
Mary and AJ are saying, "Are you kidding, we are so tired! (What weenies!). But I make them go anyway. But it's not like I had to twist their arms too hard.
I buy 2g of NYCD and a couple of space cookies. Nice budtender gets our vapo bags ready. We order drinks and relax. This is one of my favorite places. I'm the slime oozing out from your TV set... I think that when my kids go off to college, I'm turning my basement into a mini replica of 4:20. Grateful husband is a thumbs up. (I had to call him from here to tell him of my brilliant idea. He was sad again
.)On our previous visit to 420, I had given the budtender a couple of discs that grateful husband down loaded of Zappa. Musical selections that he noticed that were not included in the coffeeshops playlists. Everyone working here is real nice to us, but I think they would have been nice even without the Zappa gifty. We are so high and feeling wonderful, but it's time to go. Stomachs are rumbling - Last dance with Mary Jane for the 420 cafe. We smoke some more hits, I suck what's left in the bag and we head back to Mary's hotel, tired but immensely satisfied.
We shoot through all the alley short cuts that I now know by heart and get to the hotel in 5 minutes. We hit up the member elitist lounge for free snacks and lots of wine. Now we're getting buzzed on the wine (did I say I can be a bit of a wino?) and realize that we can't go to far in our condition. So we eat dinner at the hotel- yum- risotto with pan seared scallops. It was top notch! Of course the 2 winos (me and Mary) order more wine and now I need to smoke a joint. Where's the smoker friendly restaurant when you need one?
After dinner we went back to the free members only lounge (it's good to be an exectutive, great travel perks) and ate dessert and drank more. I'm very wasted and need to go home and crash on my couch with a joint. AJ and I leave Mary and go home, waving to our lady friends in their windows. We lay around, watching something stupid on TV, smoking a joint. I wake up sometime later, passed out on the couch with one of those porno ads on the TV. I have no idea what time it is, probably around 3AM. (I never know what time it is!
). I carefully drag myself up the stairs to sleep in my bed. Goodnight!
mixed emotions on that one lol I'm sure as a mama you can relate. Thank you for sharing and cheers, deb.
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