Why I have my legs crossed in this picture is beyond me, I dont know what I was doing there. I apologize.
Ok so a couple weeks back we decided to head to London. It probably cracks the top 3 cities I have been too so far and may claim the top spot, tough call though. We did alot in London; we went to Tower of London, Big ben, some museums, (including a wax museaum which was a suprisingly good time) and eye on londo. We stayed in a hostel and also at our friends apartment in Chelsea. Chelsea is apparently the very ritzy area and I easily saw more Aston Martins and Bentley's then I have ever seen before and will probably ever see again. It was almost uncool to own one because they were so common. The apartment we stayed at was a block away from Hugh Grant's house which we stopped by to check out he was nowhere to be found. The highlight of the trip was going to an Ice bar. The ice bar, as the name suggests, was completely made out of ice. Everything was ice, the walls, the bar, the glasses, it was very impressive. Reservations are needed to be made weeks ahead of time and you are only allowed to be in there for 45 minutes at a time but it was still worht it.

This past weekend we went to Amsterdam. Easily the most bizarre and different place I have been. Everything there was backwards. I'm not sure if I necessarily like or disliked the city but it was definetly worth experiencing. A couple interesting facts about Amsterdam that I found out while talking to the townies. For one, the population in Amersterdam is 900,000 and the number of registered bikes in the city is 2 million. Everybody rides a bike, not for exercise but just as a way to get around. It was strange. Also, I inquired why the city is so liberal on it's laws concerning drugs and prostitution. I was told that the city is soo leniant on them and basically legalized them was because it controlled the crime. Apparently, they were unable to control the crime and was afraid the city would became like "los Angelas" the taxi driver told me so they decided to legalize everything, alleviating the crime that comes along with it as well as generating revenue for the city because of tourism. This was what I was told from my taxi driver but he seemed like a legitmate character so I'll take his word for it. Amsterdam concluded our traveling for my time here. I only have two weeks left here in Italy and am trying to make the most of it although it's somewhat difficult being I delayed about every one of my papers that are due at the end of the semester but I'm confidet in my writing skills that this will not present a problem. Next week I will give a recap of everything I saw and did including my Top 5 lists of various topics.