We are now back from Amsterdam and it was awesome. I have never seen such a place. The buildings were so beautiful; very interesting architecture. I have also never seen so many different people from all over the world, and heard so many different laguages being spoken all around us. We figured in a 1km radius there was probably people from 30 different countries. The main purpose of our trip was to go to a Stuart Wilde conference, and for us it was the best part of our trip. I do not know how to describe Stuart Wilde so I recommend checking him out yourself. I will say though, that the people we met at the confrence were so amazing and so very wise. I made an especially good friend with a guy named Paul. For some reason I thought I reconized him, probably from another life but we seemed to hit it off right away. "Hey Paul, can't wait to hang out with you again, maybe at the next Aya ceremony!" We even walked through the red light district which was an accident. Very dark people walk through those streets; it's sad that people put themselves in places where they are exposed to that darkness. Not so accidental however, was our presence in the coffeeshops. They are everywhere! We checked out several and were more impressed by each than the last. It's true what they say about Amsterdam being a place that is very relaxed and unique.

We took a lot of pictures and will put them up shortly. The hotel we stayed at was called NH Krasnapolsky, which is right in Dam Square straight across from the Palace. It was very beautiful where we were.

Like I said, we are now back in Canada, Regina actually, which was the next place we would have gone if Tara had not gotten hurt. It is pretty nice here but we are going a little crazy because we are limited in what we can do. We are also waiting for our camping supplies to be shipped to us as we chose not to take everything with us to Europe. Quite frankly, after coming back from Amsterdam, Regina is not all that exciting. We are staying in a hostel and it is a pretty nice place with nice people. Nice people seem to pop up all over the place and I hope it keeps up.

Just a few thoughts that I would like to mention; when you are on the road the fact that public washrooms like to use newspaper or loose leaf for toilet paper is not appreciated. Yes, I know that is not actually what it is, but it sure feels like it on the ol' arse. Further, I believe that we should have a water sprayer above the toilet paper because wet toilet paper cleans better, you know, after #2. We could call it, A-Hole Lot Cleaner (thank Tara for that genius name). Lastly, we should change a lot of the stop signs to yield signs. Why? Because then we would save on gas (due to less starting from complete stops), and there would be less wear on brakes. That is all for now, thanks for hearing our rant.

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