Ft & 1st born's 2015 420

[Lemming]

Fair play! That's quite a list.
Great to see you again. I have no idea how we got around those crawls in the state we were in. Brilliant that we did though.
Thanks for organising the Cups and the crawls. We successfully delivered the final Cup to 420. I didn't have my camera with me at the time but, hopefully, Bleak and Papi have pictures.

[macky]

Your a machine nice to meet you and first born.

[ftcarer]

Again, we had a great 420 , loved it , you lot are a wicked bunch to be around thankyou all for helping to make our cup a success maybe see you next year

All the following is based on the list of where we went & what we brought & mashed memories

Saturday 18/04/2015

06:10 flight , arrive around 08:00 NL time , straight through customs onto train , drop bags at hotel , into Utopia for just before 09:00 , lovely , what shall we have then ?
S5, Citral, Diamond hash , Boomerang , Amnesia Haze & the empty window seat
Sat & just smoked for a while in the sunshine , enjoying that 1st joint back .
S5 was bloody lovely , very fruity on the verge of spicy , 1st born had got the Citral to give it another try ( effects are good enough I just can't stand the taste personally) , he still doesn't like it , think he gave the rest of it away at some point .
Sufficiently chilled we took a slow walk towards Siberie in hope of Lemon Haze Hash , checking a few of the souvy shops out on the way .
Success on the LHH v soft v tasty & a great price at 11.50 , didn't stay for a smoke , noticed a few baccy pouches out on the tables in there .Free lighter & papers each.
Walked back to Warmoesstraat & the Koopermoolen to check in , quick walk over to Het Gelderse to grab some of there cheese (mate said it was good enough) up to Central for Amnesia Haze (outstanding version , everyone seemed to be getting some ) & Champagne hash , whn I asked for some I was left with v small pieces as 1st born had taken 3 g's ontop of the Amnesia .
On to Voyagers to see what's about & who's coming to Haarlem

Voyagers - Sweet Pink Grapefruit , mmmmmmmm delicious high , rolled a smal pure 1 & sat by the window .
Not sure if we were the 1st ACDers there for the meet but soon enough it was myself , 1st born , occasional bowl, lemming , papi (great to finally meet you mate ), treetop, smirks & tokes & vapes flowed
After a decent smoke we got to Haarlem around 14:00 , straight over to WW Sativa , broke into 2 groups here with TT, smirks & occasional bowl ?going for a munch beforehand , while the rest of us went straight in .
Grabbed the Sour T & Golden Maroc hash, a drink & toasty from the counter at the back & settled at a table .
Sativa has been re-done since I was last in there , bud counter at front still , then into a largeish room , 6? tables , 4 chairs at each , pool table , counter at back for drinks/snacks , nice place to chill out & get wrecked for a while , which we did
Moving on we took wander to Join Us for a b&f , I got White Widow , turned out later to be a damn fine smoke
Wandering on we went to WW Indica but with them having the exact same menu as Sativa it was decided to just carry on to Birdys , with plenty of windmill pics along the way lol.
A longish(was prob alot shorter than it seemed) very mashed walk & we're a few 100m's from Birdys , TT, smirks & i think papi , stop at the food van/counter down the road while the rest of us carry on to Birdys .

NO JELLY ah well , shit
I got their LA Kush (mmm kushy) & Temple cream , tasty smoke if a little harsh. 1st born got the LA & Cream hash , settled on a couple of corner tables & the next t&t was underway .
Smoke or 2 later & we realise that we have ACDers missing , either they had an extreme munchy attack or took the wrong road from the food van , which when they turn up after 30/40 mins turns out they did aswell as walking past Birdys a few times , worse places to get lost while stoned
Toking continues then madmaxx turns up with Willies Wax which helped in no way of stopping the wreckedness lol , cheers mate damn strong , great to meet you
At some point a decision was reached that going to La Grotte before tomorrows crawl would be a good idea
Floated back to the station , think we may have got split up a little as a group on the way but all made it to the platform & the train at the same time .

Back to Dam around 19:45? group split again , 1st born & I wandered back to the hotel to refresh then out to the Old Quarter in hope of pea soup or hutsspot , mmmmmm.
not only were they serving niether of those , they don't even have a restaurant anymore, wft , head to another restaurant connected with the Koopermoolen(10%off for guests) "have you booked ", "no", you can have a table maybe around 21:30 " .
Hungry, slightly pissed off & not wanting noodles or a burger we went randomly into Dolce Vita , Italian restaurant on Warmoesstraat , drinks & spag bol ordered , 1st born notices a pizza on the next table , "if my food looks that shit , i'm leaving , they can stick it", lol, didn't look to bad to me , when our food does arrive it's a diiferent matter though , fucking demolished it he did , then had a damn good go at finishing mine lol, throughly nice meal only downside was the orange juice , or orange coloured water it really should be called .
Full bellied we shot back to the hotel for a quick smoke & re-up then headed off for the evening .
Stoney chatty walk later - taking in b&f's at Siberie -LHH for both of us , Doors-Jack Herer for 1st born , Greenhouse Effect(old Hill Street @the Market)-Bubblegum for 1st born , Kinky Kush for me - & we're walking into Solo .
Grab some Galantus outdoor , not strong , not long lasting but I really like the taste , chilled out a while smoking & chatting about the day .
Another stoney walk took us over to Resin for a looksee , Platinum Ice looked and smelt awful so was left with them (if anyone tries this in the coming wks , let me know if we made the right choice ) while we went to Prix d'Ami to finish the evening .
Straight in with a hi from the guy at the front , busyish for 00:00 on a sat night but served quick enough , Mr Nice G-13 Haze & Grapefruit Kush for me , Master Kush for 1st born , all 3 were really good smokes i'd happily buy again .
Sat on 1 of the sofas chilling , think papi came in at some point , not sure if he stayed or we wandered around with him for a while , may have got a crepe thing lol but think we were back at the hotel for around 01:30 , smoked a couple in the room then crashed , great 1st day

Sunday 19/04/2015

Up around 08:00 , smoke , wash , smoke , smoke , roll smoke out & up to La Grotte for 10:15, meet papi outside , once inside & settled we're introduced to Macky & afraidofspiders (great to meet & toke with you both) madmaxx , smirks turn up & another smoke up is on smokes are passed food is eaten a good time is had
Heading off for a high walk , we may have passed by Siberie & the start of the LHH is all gone for now , got to CS137 to find it still closed shit , great start to a crawl lol , 11:55 , the hope is for a 12:00 opening we're chilling , chatting & toking outside , bang on 12:00 the tender opens the doors & welcomes us in .
Taking a look at the menu 1st born & I asked if we could have a smell of something which I forget , talk about melt down lol, "I've just opened ,I have to get it all ready , i don't have time for you to check things , if you want to buy , buy , if you don't then leave ", hhhmmmmmm "we're all interested in buying mate but not without checking , how about we wait over there until your ready to serve us "

So we chill for a while , tbh I found his outburst funny as fuck lol, so we rolled & chilled , got the volcano going got shouted at for being to noisey lol, naughty stoners lol, how dare we enjoy ourselves , after 15 mins or so the guy calls over again , " all ready guys , who wants to be 1st " sorry to those there but it was going to be me no matter what , think I may even have pushed & told 1st born to move so I could be
1st thing the guy did was apologise for his outburst , explaning that he was late blah blah Pretty sure I checked/smelt every weed tub lol , taking my time just to see what happened
He showed me everything with a big smile on his face , fair play
Left the Orange bud until last , when I let him know that far as i'm concerned they have the best i've found so far (over last 4 yrs , beaten only once by Siberies Cali Orange) the Joker would have been proud of the smile I got from him , nice big bag safely stashed along with some , Pineapple Express , nice enough but nothing special, 1st born got some Skywalker Kush , v nice floaty stone
Not sure what the others got , think papi had some of the Orange Bud aswell .
Stayed a while chilling & chatting before leaving & the slight confusion on which direction began lol.

Smirks led the way , stoned phone map reading kicking in so after a not to long 15-20mins we're walking through Chapiteau's front door ( I should have trusted my own directions , i got me, 1st born & papi there in 10 mins on tuesday lol )
Got the Wappa(missing that deep almost rotting wappa stench but nice heavy stone to it ) & Lavender & 1st born got the OG Kush . Think everyone got given a lighter .
Onwards to De Republiek , mistake by me here as I thought we'd be able to chill a while but no chairs in there & only a wall counter with little space , not enough for all of us anyway .
Mostly same menu as Siberie being 1 of the chain but no LHH , told we should check out Siberie lol or Loft (never made it there) for it , got some Acid (Paradise's version of diesel far as i know , nice enough but not diesely/fuely far as I could tell) heading on , smirks stays for a bong at the counter , telling us he'll see us soon round the corner at Catch 33 .

Into Catch33 grab some lovely Mango Haze , 1st born gets SSH & we all settle into the very comfortable room in the back , where we proceed to smoke a shitload more Smirks joins us telling us about a local mumbling something about fucking americans as he was leaving Republiek , lol
Another great ACD t&t done & were wandering towards Spirit & Treetops pinball comp
Passing by 't Keteltje, no purchase , pretty much same menu as Prix d'Ami but € or 2 more expensive here for some of it & Bronx , got some silverlemon haze , v nice fruity smoke , smirks asked if it was a silver/lemon cross or silver haze / lemon haze depending what was about , got 3 yes answers so it's 1 of them lol , nice airy shop though , owner had no prob with me taking a menu shot except to moan that it would be a better pic if I put the menu on the windosill as there was better light there lol , even took it over for me & lined it up against the glass

Walking on & we're quickly at Spirit , wandering into a ICMag testing session in the back room .
The next 2 hrs consisted of a shiiiiiiiiiiiit load of weed & hash , toked, bonged, vaped Pool games , madmaxx was unbeaten a little pinball madmaxx winning , beat me by a close 300 points , well done mate big mix of ACD/ICMag lots of strains being passed around , think everyone was battered
Left there absolutely hammered & happy around 17:00? , purposely slow walk back to the hotel for refresh more than likely grabbing crepes along the way . Smoked a bit in our room before heading to Utopia , Tangelo Kush , yummy yum yum yum never thought i'd be so into pissyvomit lol , lovely heavy stoney smoke chilled awhile , no idea if it was just the 2 of us or others lol, sorry if I have forgot who was there
Took a wander about , ending up at Central for more Amnesia Haze & getting some Chemdawg aswell, looked pretty scraggy but the fuely smell was there so went for it , turned out to be a pretty tasty smoke
Back to Utopia for more Tangelo Kush , mmmmmm pretty sure we finished the night here before a stoned smokey wander about took us back to our hotel smoked a few more and crashed out , day 2 well spent

Monday 20/04/2015 420

Up to my alarm at 08:00 ,light a j got a few mates flying in with their friends so am meeting them at Central at 09:00 with a few smokes
1st born smoked away a load of his hash over the last 2days & his chest is killing him , needs a couple more hrs rest so he stays while I head out .
Meet mate at Central , they are smoking outside but disappointed they couldn't get the Am Haze as it was out , hand over the 2g's I picked up yesterday for him along with the cheese from Het Gelderse ( said it was good cheese not great ) . Went down to Greenhouse Effect(HSB@M) I grabbed there Silver Bubble , no idea what they got & we settled in the back .
Only had a j in there before heading off so I could show them where there apartment was for later (Amsterdam Cribs X4 , oppo Oude Kerk ) , led them up & left them at Hunters (I know it doesn't have the best rep nowadays but i've seen my mate since he got back & while he couldn't remember strains , his memorys crap without weed lol, he was raving about Hunters stuff hitting the spot) while i checked on 1st born , he was awake,feeling better & toking , wanted 30 mins more to chill .
Left him there checked out Hunters , mates gone lol, so went up to Voyagers & got more SPG , so so nice straight back to the hotel where 1st born is good to go , so with j's for the journey off we go .

Slow wandering chatty smokey walk down to Betty Too , as most know , loved Betty Boop , 1st visit to Too , i liked it there , nice quietish street , grabbed the Casey Jones , nice stoney smoke , 1st born got their Exo cheese , it was cheese & was ok
Small group were leaving as we got upstairs , OB & afraidofspiders arrived v shortly after us , toked a while sitting at the balcony window v nice spot to chill
We all left towards Bluebird , me & 1st born did a b&f on the way at Bushdoctor for cheeseolator , strongish & not as harsh as I remember(nice reminder offie )
Walked up & right past Basjoe, onwards to Bluebird arriving around 13:30
Upstairs we go ,WPA (not had before but real nice , very soft , quite strong was told it has been stronger though) Lime , mmm another top tasty smoke , fruity sour & Sour Kush ,which was just that 1st born got the SSH, good enough free lighter & raw papers , my favs .

Into smoking room , get 1 of the window seats , nice little spot , ACD are here lol, me , 1st born , papi, smirks, treetop, lemming , j , gapie , afraidofspiders, occasional bowl , madmaxx, bleak, spidergawd , macky, wife + friend were there I think but left for macky to chill after pulling a back muscle .
A long,hazey,stoney,vapey session took place, someone (good on you whoever it was) got a group of 4 to join in on the Volcano & vapes with us , (smirks- "we are the ACD Borg , you will join us" )they left suitably wrecked soon after
Got to around 14:45 & seeing as everyone who would possibly be attending cattales' memorial smoke at Prix @15:00 were together in Bluebird , we decided to have it there (apologies for the none posting of this) , thankyou to everyone joining in whether you raised a j or a vape to her I think she would have loved it that we were there toking a shitload together
Made sure I got any voting slips that needed to be given in , tucked away safely , session continued until 15:30ish when everyone started wandering off to there chosen 420 venue , me , 1st born & I think OB (3 of us were in Voyagers for 420) wandered up to Voyagers for ours .

Sweet Pink Grapefruit all gone , nooooooooooo got some Starbuds Sister , nice enough but not SPG , 1st born got the Lemon Bubble & was very happy with it , I thought there was little taste but a good stone . Hortilab grinders for everyone .
Had a quiet 420 smoke in Voyagers with 1st born , occasional bowl & a few others , none ACD.
Chilled out until just after 16:30 , then went back to the hotel to refresh & check the votes .
Votes counted , headed back to Voyagers , just missing Lemming , J , maybe others , think we met smirks there & decided to take a walk with him to the boat trip venue (what was it smirks? 3 canals past Grey Area lol) smokey walk , we got there in the end , time to spare I think if not much
Leaving the boat trippers(letting them know , cup results would be at Utopia at 20:30) , me & 1st born took a smokey slow wander back to Wok to Walk on Warmoesstraat, then the hotel to eat and chill for a while .
Ate , smoke , rested & headed out around 20:00 ,toking & not rushing we got to Utopia around 20:30 , more Tangelo , more S5 , coffee, thankyou very much Ingi 1st born got some LA Woman.
By 20:45 Utopia was full , me, 1st born, papi , gapie , madmaxx, treetop,lemming , j , occasional bowl , mackys wife + friend ( macky still resting ) afraidofspiders, spidergawd , think thats all right lol .
***@smirks , did you arrive at Utopia before or after the presentation ?***

So give Lemming the results , which he reads 3rd to 1st , Birdys 3rd , Catch 33 2nd , Utopia 1st , "you fucking what?" is what we hear from Ingi , that changes to "are you seroius?" when she sees the trophy now on the counter she follows up with tears thankyou's & bearhugs for everyone + free drinks for entering the shop for the rest of the evening , ACD or not .
Well done Utopia, well deserved & thankyou to Ingi , Nel , Jessica & James (may have his name wrong ) for the last few years,all the best to all of you , a truly great place to visit & chill gutted I more than likely won't be visiting again but glad I got to 1 last time
Ingi is adamant that she wants to keep working in CS's , so hopefully we'll hear from her about where soon enough

Session continued throughout the evening , I made a quick trip back to the hotel to grab Birdys 3rd place trophy as madmaxx was staying in Haarlem so would drop it off for us all (cheers maxx , was good of you mate ) got back to Utopia to a video of Gapie eating 10g's of AVB , mad bastard , session still going strong , everyone passing joints or vapes
Catch 33 t&t presentation set up for 13:30 tomorrow
Think people started heading off from 23:00 onwards ,txt comes in from madmaxx , Birdys very happy with 3rd place , free g & a tea for maxx , hope you enjoyed mate , jelly man nicked & in jail ,smirks leaves to get his vape box to leave stashed behind , "be back soon" , me , 1st born & papi stayed until closing(01:00) , wandering off on a slow , mashed walk think we split around 02:00 ,with us heading back to the hotel .
Smoking & chatting in our room ,1st born crashed around 04:00 , I woke up in the chair around 05:00 & crawled into bed lol , fucking great 420

Tuesday 21/04/2015

Wake at 08:00 , toilet , smoke , back to bed lol, wake again to alarm at 10:00, up & light up .
Up , washed sat back smoking when a txt comes through from papi , Amnesia Haze back in @ Central .
We're up at Central in 20 mins, check the Amnesia tub , bloody scraps , lol, have to move quick around here sometimes lol.
Went into Voyagers for the testing tuesday , kushy & strong stone , At some point we met up with papi , may have gone La Grotte again but he may have to fill in the blank bits here lol.
I know he told us about smirks txting him about passing out last night & bonging in Greenhouse before he left for home .
We ended up wandering out to Chapiteau again , I got more Wappa , can't have been to bad , remember papi coming out saying "I asked the guy if I could have 1/2 g , he said I could have €1 worth if thats all I wanted"

Over to Bronx ,3 of us chilled out here this time , got more silverlemon haze , sat at 1 of the upstairs table overlooking the shop , really nice place to chill , i'll have no probs returning
Stayed until 13/13:15 when it was time to move on to Catch 33, grabbed some superpolm on the way in , cheap n cheerfull , quite tasty as it happens.
Settled in the back with 1st born & papi , think macky & afraidofspiders were already in there , Lemming & J arrived , was treetop there ? anyone else ? had a nice session , went & explained to the lady working why we were there , she was very happy they had come 2nd , said they would have to try harder next year lol .
Soon enough time to head off for our last few hours in dam . Trophy was on display next to there menu when we left Saying our goodbyes , off we went .

Walked back to the center with 1st born & papi , splitting up , 1st born & I grabbed some last souveniers for home before going for a final pack up , stopped at the front desk " no sorry you can't go up someone has checked into your room , you can leave your bags down here until you leave" , " wtf are you on about mate , we haven't checked out of the room yet, are bags are still in it" , 1 phonecall later & yes he believes are bags are still up stairs & yes of course we can go up , 10 f'ing mins tht wasted lol .
Pack everything up , quickly roll a few, last smoke in room , check out , leave our bags and head off for a final short wander Back to pick up bags & up to Voyagers for a final hour of dam toking
In we go , smoking room is just emptying so we settle in there , those that have just left have left stuff all over , fuckers , start clearing the tables while asking the guys working how they put up with this shit lol, got some Tangie , which was over & free drinks also a g of something else with all the change we had left , €9 odd & yes we got the full g
Chilled in the smoking room toking away chatting about the trip , papi turned up , 1 guy working said he had to buy to come in the room , the other told the 1st to shut the fuck up lol & let him in , shared a last j or 3 between the 3 of us until soon enough it was 19:00 & time to leave , saying our goodbyes we left for the station having a j of Tangie.
Over to the airport quickly enough , check bags & out for a last smoke , S5/SPG/LHH mix for me Lemon Bubble/??? for 1st born , toked away then wandered to Mcd's for a munch , through security quick enough , took our milkshakes away , fuckers lol.
Quick enough flight , breeze through security/customs , into car & home having a relaxing smoke by 23:00 , another trip done

Thanks again to 1st born & all ACD

[Bliss Receptor]

Bravo!

[AzLaker]

Excellent!!

AzLaker

[jiffa]

Thanks for sharing, sounds like everyone had a smoke filled time

[gapie]

hows my crazy ice amnesia I gave u
I check this stuff under a microscope of bleak
damn modufuckah I need a picture of this shit in microscopey stylie its looks crazzzeeee

[eightball]

top quality reporting.

[gapie]

reading quick thru the travelogue in utopia me eating the vape stuff from smirks what he smoked that week put it up I don't care if my face is on it I am famous here in on ACD thus all no worries about that and thnx smirks for the vaporizer and the vape stuff I ate that night I slept well if I remember correctly lolsz

[Marok21]

great report sounds like u had a lot of fun

[Smirks]

Great report ft!

I arrived at Utopia on Monday just after the presentation, I think. Or more likely I was there in time, oblivious to the presentation and told the outcome after waking from one of many cat naps I had that day.

And yes I didn't make it back to Utopia on Monday. Got back to the apartment I was staying in and thought, oh yes let me just lie down for a few minutes. Big mistake, next thing I knew I awoke looked at the clock and it was 12.55am. I'll finish my final day trip report some day...

[gapie]

[ftcarer]

Thanks for the comments again , great to see those that were there will try and add some pics asap

Great report ft!
I arrived at Utopia on Monday just after the presentation, I think. Or more likely I was there in time, oblivious to the presentation and told the outcome after waking from one of many cat naps I had that day.

And yes I didn't make it back to Utopia on Monday. Got back to the apartment I was staying in and thought, oh yes let me just lie down for a few minutes. Big mistake, next thing I knew I awoke looked at the clock and it was 12.55am. I'll finish my final day trip report some day...

you're a bongmachine couldn't help but get a catnap pic mate i'll pm it to you

[Kermit]

Nice trip report, bit too much reading for me but got through it, more of a picture book kid me

Try Betty's on a Friday/Saturday night m8 it was like wormstreet in November, full of totally pissed up kids (compared to me)

Good results on the cup, and sounds an epic trip, gutted I missed it.

[ftcarer]

Cheers mate , it was a great trip & great 420