Hestia's Trip, April 2009, day 9 & 10, start of meets
Posted: Wed 20th May 2009 03:18 pm
Day 9, Wednesday April 15th.
A good night's sleep, shower, 4 cups of coffee and a nice smoke on the terrace blueberry from the 420. New lodgers in the other room, a young couple from New York, America, the Bronx to be exact. They are in Europe for their honeymoon and just came from Paris. They are smokers, too.
After breakfast we all went out to the terrace and got lit. I also gave them a pipe I had extra. It's what they use back home. Also some reefer to use in it to get them started. Welcome to Amsterdam.- they're soooo cute!
And then I'm ready to hit the road! So I head towards the Paradox and get some of their purple Haze, a great smoke, good high. Right price too, somewhere around 8 or 9 Euro a gram. After that I went towards the Dam. Stopped by the Grey Area and got some Chockolope here, a good buzz and it tasted pretty good too! Talked to a young head from around Chicago, had been traveling through Europe for about a month so far. He said he was having a Blast! He had some cheese going in a bong so we hit on his for a spell ,then we hit on some of my Chockolope too. A really good buzz.... Well time to be moving on so I
.
Left there walking again and had a sudden case of the munchies. Fortunately I remembered a food shop next to the 420 and so moved in that direction. I am glad I remembered this place, good pizza (ham & cheese) and also had a chocolate waffle with nuts and whipped cream. Good and filling,
Feeling much refreshed I pop next door to the 420 and have my usual Lady Grey tea and SSH.
Go to my window seat, lit up and did some writing on my article. A good visit as always,. they take good care of me. Looking at the time I see it is already 5:30, so I guess that I need to get moving. The landlady is cooking Dutch tonight and I can hardly wait. So off I go, making sure that I stop at the Freeland on my way back, I just thrust my head in the door, laugh wickedly and say "Look! It's Sunny". Give me another day or so and I'll have these poor Bastards flinching, ha, ha, ha! Life is good., sick but good.
Back to the room by 6:00, scored a cup of coffee and hit the terrace for a buzz up. You ought to see my 420 bag! It's growing by the day! At 6:30 I am called up to eat. Yeah, I'm starved!
It was fresh tortulini stuffed with ham, served with a gorgonzola cheese sauce filled with chopped ham. A sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley on top. Brilliant! It was rich and smooth, an excellent meal, made better by sitting at the table watching the busy Amsterdamers hurry home from work. Thank you landlady, you are a dream come true! She even does laundry
After dinner, more strong Dutch coffee and cookies. With sitting and talking and watching TV. Then off to bed, after a sit on the terrace with a pipe or two of soothing smoke. tomorrow is the start of the meet & greets, Old Amsterdam and Soulrider. So I must gets me beauty Z's.
Day 10, Thursday, April 16th.
Yahoo! The start of 420 today for me as far as I'm concerned. Up by 7:00, a full bracing breakfast of coffee, oj and a bowl of Basjo's special white cheese smoke. Yumm, Yumm.
Ready to go 10:00. It's a beautiful day, sunny and warm, how perfect! Hardly a cloud in the sky (thank you Mother). Did more shopping today, when L was here we kept passing a delf shop, old and new. The display in the window looks interesting. Yet every time we passed the shop had been closed. Today it is open. The place isn't a shop, it's a freakin' museum, in the back room there's the old delf and I'm enchanted. Wish L was here, he'd go ga ga for this place.
I find a blue delft schnauzer, we have a schnauzer, Abigail Precious. Have to have it. I also take photos. And being in a shopping mood, I give in a bit and pick up 3 sliver rings and more beautiful scarfs & T-shirts.
Found two scarfs that will be perfect for mother hen (Hennie). That's my new name for her. I called her Mother Hennie last night and she spoke Dutch to me, "Fook you, Ann." I totally laughed my ass off. But I'm getting off track, stoner mind yah know. One scarf is white silk with embroidered flowers and the other is bold patterns of red, blue and gold. They'll be perfect for her. She has reddish hair, blue eyes and a creamy complexion.
All of a sudden, I'm starving and being in ledeisplein square I just go to the burger King and eat like a hog - coke lite, large French fry and a monster whopper. It's so good that I can actually feel my arteries hardening.
After stuffing myself I hit the Dolphin for my version of dessert, a gram of white dolphin and a peach Loosa. I am so stoked up. I feel so alive, so in touch with where I'm at.
Time to be moving on towards rembrandt square, get out my old trusty map out and "let's go find the Old Amsterdam, OK?" It's 1:00 in the afternoon.
What a pretty square. All the flowers and trees in full spring bloom. The air is rich with the smell of it all. I do a pretty good job finding the Old Amsterdam without L's help and get lost only once or twice, so what? Is there really anything wrong about getting lost in Amsterdam? Every wrong turn reveals another treasure.
Ah, ha! I found the Old Amsterdam coffee shop. It's closed! What the Fook? this ain't right.
What to do? Oh, hey look, another coffee shop just down the road! The Arabica(sp?) This coffee shop is a treat not to be missed. Good sounds, not too loud, good vibes, awesome Amnesia Haze! By far the best I've had so far, so I buy some more, get while the getting good, remember the 420 bag. So anyway I take a seat in the window booth and smoke it up. Peach Loosa and 3 pipes of Haze.
Hot damn! I'm just way high. Now while I'm sitting here, I get to talking to my booth partners. One's an older gentleman who only smokes hash and is quite knowledgeable about it, too. A good talk, learned a lot! And on my other side there were 2 young ladies, sweet as Amsterdam waffles. One blond/blue, one brown/green. Tall and beautiful, In there early 20s ,said they were models from Germany looking for a coffee shop to party in for the evening so I told them about the 420 thing and the meet and greet going to happen at the old Amsterdam. I thought that 2 beautiful girls would be welcome to the party, figuring that there would be a few single young men about. The only problem was that the Old Amsterdam didn't open until later than expected. By the time it did they were bored and left. Oh, well! Soulrider were are you?
When Old Amsterdam finally opened I went in. It's a nice place. I'd be quite willing to visit it again. Bought some Dutch Diamonds and pop lite, kicked back on the couch by the window and piped up. Only problem was that I was still so mashed from the mass ingestion of the Ambica Haze that the smoke from the Old Amsterdam kind of got side tracked if you know what I mean. what a Bummer, But not to worry I'll do some later. When I'm straighter.
After waiting for Soulrider for about an hour without him showing, decided that this scene wasn't going to happen. So I hit the road and headed towards the red light district. Go to Basjo's. Have a coke lite and a nice sit. After this I go to the 420. Lady Grey and a gram of blueberry in a bong. Buzzed my ears off again.
Too buzzed to write, so I walk wasted! Wander around for a spell then to the Freeland, of course. I was right, I've got them nervous now! Life id funny, I'm tired and head back to the room. Yeah! Hennie loves her scarfs. She's going on a cruise soon and said she's taking them with her. Yes I was right, the colors are perfect for her. Especially the Bold red, blue and gold one. She also cooked us dinner, Stampot and old Dutch dish. Potatoes, endive & bacon cooked together with meat balls. Wonderful food and good company. I'm tired, down to the room & out to the terrace, pop and the stuff from the Old Amsterdam. Now I get it, Wow! Then stagger off to bed by 10:00. After all the good cooking I'm taking Hennie out to dinner and singing tomorrow night. It should be a hoot.
A good night's sleep, shower, 4 cups of coffee and a nice smoke on the terrace blueberry from the 420. New lodgers in the other room, a young couple from New York, America, the Bronx to be exact. They are in Europe for their honeymoon and just came from Paris. They are smokers, too.
After breakfast we all went out to the terrace and got lit. I also gave them a pipe I had extra. It's what they use back home. Also some reefer to use in it to get them started. Welcome to Amsterdam.- they're soooo cute!
And then I'm ready to hit the road! So I head towards the Paradox and get some of their purple Haze, a great smoke, good high. Right price too, somewhere around 8 or 9 Euro a gram. After that I went towards the Dam. Stopped by the Grey Area and got some Chockolope here, a good buzz and it tasted pretty good too! Talked to a young head from around Chicago, had been traveling through Europe for about a month so far. He said he was having a Blast! He had some cheese going in a bong so we hit on his for a spell ,then we hit on some of my Chockolope too. A really good buzz.... Well time to be moving on so I
.
Left there walking again and had a sudden case of the munchies. Fortunately I remembered a food shop next to the 420 and so moved in that direction. I am glad I remembered this place, good pizza (ham & cheese) and also had a chocolate waffle with nuts and whipped cream. Good and filling,
Feeling much refreshed I pop next door to the 420 and have my usual Lady Grey tea and SSH.
Go to my window seat, lit up and did some writing on my article. A good visit as always,. they take good care of me. Looking at the time I see it is already 5:30, so I guess that I need to get moving. The landlady is cooking Dutch tonight and I can hardly wait. So off I go, making sure that I stop at the Freeland on my way back, I just thrust my head in the door, laugh wickedly and say "Look! It's Sunny". Give me another day or so and I'll have these poor Bastards flinching, ha, ha, ha! Life is good., sick but good.Back to the room by 6:00, scored a cup of coffee and hit the terrace for a buzz up. You ought to see my 420 bag! It's growing by the day! At 6:30 I am called up to eat. Yeah, I'm starved!
It was fresh tortulini stuffed with ham, served with a gorgonzola cheese sauce filled with chopped ham. A sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley on top. Brilliant! It was rich and smooth, an excellent meal, made better by sitting at the table watching the busy Amsterdamers hurry home from work. Thank you landlady, you are a dream come true! She even does laundry
After dinner, more strong Dutch coffee and cookies. With sitting and talking and watching TV. Then off to bed, after a sit on the terrace with a pipe or two of soothing smoke. tomorrow is the start of the meet & greets, Old Amsterdam and Soulrider. So I must gets me beauty Z's.
Day 10, Thursday, April 16th.
Yahoo! The start of 420 today for me as far as I'm concerned. Up by 7:00, a full bracing breakfast of coffee, oj and a bowl of Basjo's special white cheese smoke. Yumm, Yumm.
Ready to go 10:00. It's a beautiful day, sunny and warm, how perfect! Hardly a cloud in the sky (thank you Mother). Did more shopping today, when L was here we kept passing a delf shop, old and new. The display in the window looks interesting. Yet every time we passed the shop had been closed. Today it is open. The place isn't a shop, it's a freakin' museum, in the back room there's the old delf and I'm enchanted. Wish L was here, he'd go ga ga for this place.
I find a blue delft schnauzer, we have a schnauzer, Abigail Precious. Have to have it.
I also take photos. And being in a shopping mood, I give in a bit and pick up 3 sliver rings and more beautiful scarfs & T-shirts.Found two scarfs that will be perfect for mother hen (Hennie). That's my new name for her. I called her Mother Hennie last night and she spoke Dutch to me, "Fook you, Ann." I totally laughed my ass off. But I'm getting off track, stoner mind yah know. One scarf is white silk with embroidered flowers and the other is bold patterns of red, blue and gold. They'll be perfect for her. She has reddish hair, blue eyes and a creamy complexion.
All of a sudden, I'm starving and being in ledeisplein square I just go to the burger King and eat like a hog - coke lite, large French fry and a monster whopper. It's so good that I can actually feel my arteries hardening.
After stuffing myself I hit the Dolphin for my version of dessert, a gram of white dolphin and a peach Loosa. I am so stoked up. I feel so alive, so in touch with where I'm at.
Time to be moving on towards rembrandt square, get out my old trusty map out and "let's go find the Old Amsterdam, OK?" It's 1:00 in the afternoon.
What a pretty square. All the flowers and trees in full spring bloom. The air is rich with the smell of it all. I do a pretty good job finding the Old Amsterdam without L's help and get lost only once or twice, so what? Is there really anything wrong about getting lost in Amsterdam? Every wrong turn reveals another treasure.
Ah, ha! I found the Old Amsterdam coffee shop. It's closed! What the Fook? this ain't right.
What to do? Oh, hey look, another coffee shop just down the road! The Arabica(sp?) This coffee shop is a treat not to be missed. Good sounds, not too loud, good vibes, awesome Amnesia Haze! By far the best I've had so far, so I buy some more, get while the getting good, remember the 420 bag. So anyway I take a seat in the window booth and smoke it up. Peach Loosa and 3 pipes of Haze.Hot damn! I'm just way high. Now while I'm sitting here, I get to talking to my booth partners. One's an older gentleman who only smokes hash and is quite knowledgeable about it, too. A good talk, learned a lot! And on my other side there were 2 young ladies, sweet as Amsterdam waffles. One blond/blue, one brown/green. Tall and beautiful, In there early 20s ,said they were models from Germany looking for a coffee shop to party in for the evening so I told them about the 420 thing and the meet and greet going to happen at the old Amsterdam. I thought that 2 beautiful girls would be welcome to the party, figuring that there would be a few single young men about. The only problem was that the Old Amsterdam didn't open until later than expected. By the time it did they were bored and left. Oh, well! Soulrider were are you?
When Old Amsterdam finally opened I went in. It's a nice place. I'd be quite willing to visit it again. Bought some Dutch Diamonds and pop lite, kicked back on the couch by the window and piped up. Only problem was that I was still so mashed from the mass ingestion of the Ambica Haze that the smoke from the Old Amsterdam kind of got side tracked if you know what I mean. what a Bummer, But not to worry I'll do some later. When I'm straighter.
After waiting for Soulrider for about an hour without him showing, decided that this scene wasn't going to happen. So I hit the road and headed towards the red light district. Go to Basjo's. Have a coke lite and a nice sit. After this I go to the 420. Lady Grey and a gram of blueberry in a bong. Buzzed my ears off again.
Too buzzed to write, so I walk wasted! Wander around for a spell then to the Freeland, of course. I was right, I've got them nervous now! Life id funny, I'm tired and head back to the room. Yeah! Hennie loves her scarfs. She's going on a cruise soon and said she's taking them with her. Yes I was right, the colors are perfect for her. Especially the Bold red, blue and gold one. She also cooked us dinner, Stampot and old Dutch dish. Potatoes, endive & bacon cooked together with meat balls. Wonderful food and good company. I'm tired, down to the room & out to the terrace, pop and the stuff from the Old Amsterdam. Now I get it, Wow! Then stagger off to bed by 10:00. After all the good cooking I'm taking Hennie out to dinner and singing tomorrow night. It should be a hoot.
