MAY 13- En Route to the land of the windmills

So I was sitting with Cachi on the flight all the way to Amsterdam. My other friend, Val was four seats  in front because the counter lady wasn’t able to place all three of us in a single row. I took the window seat while Cachi took the middle seat and her seatmate on her left was a very large Dutch man. 

hello, Dutch sky

Since we were using the same airline as the one going to Hong Kong, I was already familiar with the music choices inside the airline. So I made a playlist with the indie music scene. I browsed through the pop section and my jaw dropped. Omg. I wasn’t kidding. I think Cachi caught me with my mouth agape. I found Adele, some Maroon 5, and god forbid, Lissie. Shit. They had Lissie. I thought I was the only person in the whole world who listens to Lissie. God. I was refreshed to know that an airline recognizes her talents as much as I do. LOL. 

So in the end, I made a 57-track playlist. I think it took me around 20 minutes to manually add each song. I had to do it twice though since the airline had to reboot the system. That meant manually adding them for another 20 minutes… That wasn’t fun, let me tell you.

I also got the to watch a couple of episodes of Modern Family. I don’t usually watch movies on airlines because sitting in a very restricted seat for more than an hour while watching a movie without breaks isn’t very comfortable. I usually just pop in some TV shows or music. I did get a few episodes of True Blood… but I had to stop it during the sex scenes because that would be awkward. I mean, our seats were in front of the lavatories, so there’s absolutely no one or no seats behind us so people would be standing behind our seats, waiting for their turn to use the bathroom. Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to have someone catch me watching the really graphic sex scenes of True Blood? Uhh… no. Lol. Speaking of sex, I caught Cachi’s seatmate to be watching a sex scene. Now i checked the entire movie playlist on the plane, and there were absolutely no porn titles in there (well, none that I could think of)… so I wonder what the hell he was watching… because, boy, those sex scenes WERE graphic. 

Food on the airline was incredibly good! Oh my god. It was a better improvement over than that shit they serve in PAL. Blech. We even got Haagen Daz ice cream! … And we were in coach, for crying out loud! Much, Much, MUCH better than PAL for sure. 

food menus... damn, they were good!

When we touched down in The Netherlands, I’ve never been so completely overwhelmed with all of the tall, blonde people in the airport.. Geez… It was like a Bel Ami festival! Don’t pretend you guys don’t know what that is… LOL. I know you know… Anyways, I think I saw one of their actors in the baggage area… or that could be just my senses playing with me because I was too excited! 

Hello Netherlands!

My friends and I booked a hostel in Centraal Amsterdam, so we bought a ticket to got there. Guess what happened? Our fucking first stop in Europe, and we already got lost! Fuck. This better not be a foreboding sign for the rest of our stay in Europe. To make matters worse, when we got off in a train station to go take a bus, the entire city was on a metro strike! So, we had not choice but to ride another train back to the right station… Problem was… finding the right fucking train. Lord almighty… Reading the instructions did not help at all because they were all in Dutch. That. sucked. Val had to ask a cashier in a local supermarket which train to take. Oh lord… we better not get lost again...