Day 92 = April 5

 This morning we got up, ate breakfast and made our 40 minute walk back to the train station.  We got there and had a little time to spare so we got some drinks and walked around looking at things.  Amanda got an Ampelmann postcard and then we were looking at some food in a little store and I saw a green bottle of something in the cooler, I looked again and it was Mountain Dew.  So, of course I had to get some.  It was not American MD; that was for sure. I don’t know if was the fact that I was not use to drinking it or what but I am sure too that it was made different because it tasted a little different.  It was not too bad though.  Kept me wake most of the way back to Leiden.  The train ride was not bad.  It was a high speed train and it brought us all the way from Berlin to Schiphol Airport, which is only a 15 minute train ride to Leiden.  So that was really nice.  We left Berlin at 10:30 and got into Leiden at 5:30.

When we got to Leiden, Amanda and I were both really hungry so we decided to stop and get some fries and mayo.  Really long story short, it was IRRITATING.  A quote from Amanda’s blog, “Both of us were hungry and we knew that it would be awhile before we got dinner, so I suggested we stop to get fries and mayo.  We stopped at a place where I had gone before.  I ordered in Dutch but the guy apparently didn’t understand me so I ordered in English.  He still didn’t understand me so he directed me to the lady that was working.  I ordered and paid. Twenty minutes later, they realized they forgot about me.  I told them again which was even more difficult. If I wouldn’t have paid, I would have walked out a long time before.  To make a long, irritating story short, I will never go back to that place.  When we left, it became apparent that they were just making things difficult for me.  I have never been so irritated.  We finally got our fries and ate them on the walk back.  At least they tasted really good after all that trouble.”  Sorry I did not feel like rewriting that. 

After we got back to Amanda room, we unpacked and then went to the grocery store to get food for supper.  We ate, Amanda worked on homework and then we went to bed.

Rick