Day 3: Bikes and Windmills

The third day in Amsterdam Cat and I decided to rent bikes and pretend like we were locals with bright red bikes and big red signs on the front that clearly gave us away as tourists.


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From the bike place we found a route that took us north of Amsterdam to the town of Zaanse Schans. The route was about 40 km, which is way further than I've ever ridden a bike before. It first took us up through the town of Landsmeer and through this beautiful park with lots of meadows like these and also along lots of canals.







Our goal was to reach Zaanse Schans, which has 8 windmills for tourists to come and gawk at. We stopped in the main part of town to find some lunch, and ended up in this little place that sold sandwiches and hamburgers and stuff like that. Cat and I are just minding our own business and scarfing down our food because we just rode 20 km. The only other customers in this place are a group of teenage boys sitting a couple booths over from us. Well they get up to leave, and our table is facing the window right where their bikes are parked. We notice they are acting kind of strangely and looking at us a lot, but they all get on their bikes and get ready to leave but one guy. I don't know how they decided, but apparently it was his job to moons us and then they all raced away on their bicycles. Pretty hilarious. It was also a pretty pathetic moon. I kept hoping we would see them again as we rode through town so that we could show them how it's done.

May 22, 2010