During my time off, I was able to see a lot of what Amsterdam has to offer. The Van Gogh Museum was one of the first places I went to see. I was tired because I had just gotten off a plane, but some of his art is so amazing that I didn't want to wait to see them.
I went into the city centre after going to the museum to look around, maybe do some shopping, and get something to eat.
I had heard a lot about Amsterdam, but I thought a lot of it was exaggerated. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's all true. The strong smell of marijuana is the first thing you notice, and then you start to see girls in the windows who are almost completely naked.
As if the prostitutes in the windows weren't enough, there are also live sex shows and sex shops on every street selling every kind of sex toy imaginable. However, this wasn't what interested me.
Then, as I kept walking around, I began to notice something other than pot and naked women: casinos.
I grew up in New Jersey, which is only about two hours from Atlantic City. After I turned 18, I spent a lot of time in casinos. So I went inside to check out some of them.
So, I ended up spending most of my time after that in those casinos. The first one I went to only had video gaming machines, but they also had video poker, video blackjack, and video slot machines. I didn't do very well there, so I only stayed for about an hour and 100 Euro before leaving.
The next place I went to was better. In these casinos, people don't wear jeans, sneakers, and T-shirts like they do in New Jersey. Instead, they wear nice clothes. I tried to play blackjack at this casino, which had real table games, but there was a player there who either didn't know how to play or was cheating with another player. I'm more likely to think that he didn't know how to play blackjack.
So I started playing Roulette and did really well. At one point, I was up about 400 Euro before I started losing. So I decided to leave this casino and go for a walk.
The next day, I went to another casino to see if my luck was back. I put some money into a slot machine and after three spins, I won another 200 Euros. I felt lucky, so I went into the poker room, which is when things got really interesting. I joined a game, and these guys were really good, but I won as much as I lost, and by the end, I may have even had a few Euros more than when I came in.
After about 5 hours of playing, I decided to go outside for a walk to stretch my legs. I ended up deciding to sit down and have a cup of coffee, but I didn't know the difference between a coffee shop and a cafe.
In Amsterdam, a caf? is a place to sit and drink coffee, while a coffee shop is a place to buy and smoke marijuana. So, as I sat there and drank my coffee, I saw a few people smoking joints. Now, I've heard about this and smelled a lot of pot while I was there, but I didn't know it was sold like this in the open. So I bought some pot and tried it.
I went to the counter where other people were buying weed. The guy behind the counter was very nice and showed me a menu of what they were selling. I bought a joint of white widow in the end. The man working behind the counter told me that his stuff was very strong, but I wasn't ready for this.
I got through about half of the joint before this feeling hit me. I've been drinking for a long time, but even when I was in college, I never got this drunk.
I finally got out of there and went to get some fresh air and waffles. I decided this was the time to go back into the casino and win my money back. In the end, I lost another 600 Euro, fell off my chair in the casino, and had to be helped up.
So, if you go to Amsterdam, be careful because the grass there is very strong.
