For our last day in Amsterdam, we started off by going to the Anne Frank house. The line was pretty long so we decided to walk around a little and do some souvenir shopping and eat lunch. When we got back to the museum, the line was a lot shorter. Inside, the museum starts off by explaining the Anne Frank story. The family, along with another family, went into hiding, after the Nazis took over Amsterdam, above the actual factory that Otto Frank owned. They lived up in the top 2 floors of the building which was labeled as spice storage and therefore had all of the windows blacked out. The stairs to these floors had been concealed by a bookshelf, and we were actually able to walk up those stairs. It was very surreal to see the actual size of the rooms they lived in.
After the museum we went to Vondelpark and walked around and did some people watching. There were groups of young people sitting in the park eating sandwiches and enjoying wine and children on field trips with their class. After hanging out here for a little bit, we went to eat dinner. We went to another restaurant on the “ethnic aisle” and had unlimited spare ribs! It was pretty late by the time we finished eating, so we went back to our hostel to pack and go to sleep.
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