North Carolina is Sticky

Champion pre-funking with the finest materials on Durham Chapel Hill Blvd! Tomorrow the Western Washington Vikings will face the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor and I will be there! I still can't believe it!!! I hope I'm able to sleep tonight!

Stubbe's Haring

For my last meal in Amsterdam I decided to go with a local delicacy and hit a famous traditional fish stand for some herring. Apparently the Stubbe family has been selling herring for over 100 years and I think they have been so successful by keeping it simple. Fresh fish, sweet pickle slices, and onions on a fluffy bun. I was a little skeptical but it was perfect! I was expecting a strong fish flavor but that wasn't the case at all. The herring was very light and flavors of the onions and pickles worked with it brilliantly!

The Secret Annex & The Windmill Brewery

The weather in Amsterdam has been rainy. While its nothing I'm not use to, it was a little brutal to be standing in a downpour for 30 minutes while waiting to see Anne Frank's secret annex. It was a surreal experience to be in the space where she spent 2 years cooped up, unable to go outside or talk above a whisper. It made me feel stupid for being bummed about my rain soaked clothes and cold hands. We decided the best thing to lift our spirits was a trip to the Brouwerij't IJ brewery on the outskirts of the city with at the site of an old windmill. The beer was actually quite remarkable and the friendly clientele, all of which could speak a minimum of 3 languages fluently, were lively and highly concerned about upcoming presidential election. Everyone we encountered was team Obama. 

Amsterdam is My Kind of Place!

This pretty much sums it up so far!