Off to Amsterdam...

Today we're off to Amsterdam. We're taking the night train. I hope the sleeper car is more comfortable than last night's bed. Amar and I switched for one night (I didn't want the top bunk) and boy was that a mistake. There was a lump right in the middle and the mattress sagged so that I always ended up on the lump!

Sunday we went to see Tower of London, Tower and London Bridges, The Monument to the Great Fire, St Paul's Cathedral, and much of the financial district. We arrived at St. Paul's just in time for Even Service.

Later that evening we went out to the hostel sponsored bar for some £2 pints. On the elevator down, we met three Americans. One of which was from Annandale, VA! The other two were from Michigan. Their roommate was from Lithuania.

Soon it seemed like the whole hostel had emptied. I talked to several interesting characters. The Germans who were here studying English. The token Brit. The really dumb girl from Louisville, Kentucky. The Australians Carmen and Loz (short for Lauren somehow). Loz and I hit it off as we talked about cats for quite awhile. She's studying to be a vet and she just left her three month old kitten back in Australia.

Afterwards we ran into the Argentines again and we all went to a club which I really don't remember the name.

Yesterday, I hung around the hostel while Amar went over to Covent Garden. Today, before our train we're going to go by Westminster and see the standard tourist fare (Big Ben, Parliment... Big Ben, Parliment.)