Wednesday, April 24: Stockholm, to Amsterdam

I arrived at Stockholm and the process was pretty smooth. I 
got through customs and border security pretty smoothly. It’s now 7:30 PM for some reason my phone has not converted automatically to their time which is six 
hours ahead so my plane starts boarding in 10 minutes, but I was able to find, a water station and also a plug-in station where I could 
plug in 
my USB right into the wall, which is pretty convenient because they don’t have them in the airport the United States that I know of. Well, that connecting flight I was pretty miserable. The 

guy in front of me acted like an entitled boomer in the worst variety

 kept banging the chair took up all the space in there luggage area and I just hit 

a wall where I was just I felt like the cabin pressure was high, but 

I was holding on… Anyway, once I landed, I thought I could just walk out somewhere

 catch the train but no, I just kept walking and walking and walking

 and walking out how to get the Sim to work. I know it now works. I can get 

the Internet, Facebook and Google Maps but no texting or phone 

calls so oh well , I finally found a place to get coffee next to the Starbucks. I was going to

 go to Starbucks but I decided to go to a place it’s local so I’m 

waiting for Bob who said he could pick me up 11:07 AM Amsterdam time. Well, Bob found out there was 5 Starbucks at the airport so he found me and we talked a little bit and then we walked

 a little bit more to the train which took us to a nice part of the town and then we took a ferry ride, which is really nice 

Next he took me to  
the Amsterdam museum and showed 

me around town. We saw this huge old shipyard which is now on Arness colony 

and they have these things that are literally called pisswarres. 

I could literally piss outside its clothes but you just piss on the sidewalk. It’s just one of the weirdest things I ever experienced.



  It was really weird. I mean I did it, but I could look through little holes and look at people as on pissing which is blowing let’s put it that way. Anyway, I was tired

, but I persevered and had a little coffee to help me. I was running on adrenaline.Anyhow , one thing I noticed is that the there are bikes everywhere and 

yes I heard about that everyone has but they are really aggressive and you have to keep your eyes open. You’ll get run over by bikes. I gotta be really careful

 not stare at my phone. Anyhow, the weather is really 

changeable. It goes one minute. It’s got sunshine. Next minute starts to rain. We even 

had hail for a little while , but then it stops so it’s not torrential rain. 

It’s just periodic off it on again. This is the only place I’ve seen where it looks really 

it. we also went to the recently opened holocaust museum here in 

Amsterdam. It’s very powerful and it’s minimalism and the spells a word in 

Hebrew the way it’s designed. Each little brick is an even of 

person who is killed by the Nazis in Amsterdam by itself it’s a lot of people

 holy shit. It’s a lot of people, speaking of which Lisa got me a ticket 



today and Frank. From what I’m told it’s hard to get there so I’m going there tomorrow at 10 AM.   
I have a museum card that I paid for the Bob got me so it’s a really useful thing to have here in Amsterdam and it will also be a wonderfulsouvenir
 when I get back. I’m still also get a Transit card but hasn’t arrived in the mail yet. Bob broke them back and asked if it was on its way so it’s all cool. You just use a credit card to get on the trains.

Monday, January 22: Travel Day with American Airlines

Well, Mary and I made the best of a crappy situation. We decided we would not go to any 

hotel because it wouldn’t be worth it since we have a standby That starts boarding at 7:15 AM. So we were told there’s a that starts 

boarding at 7:15 AM. So we were told there’s a place we could get food through our credit card since there’s no stores open 

and there is no human so you just go in grab a sandwich so Mary and I grab some grub and it wasn’t bad tasting. We enjoyed
the food and we had a little fun , I took a picture of Maryann I get it giving us giving the 

double finger. The one middle finger salute to American 

Airlines for screwing us over I had an , I took a picture of Mary and I get it giving us giving the double finger. The one middle finger salute to American Airlines for screwing us over. I had a hoagie in my mouth and we both made weird expressions. Anyhow, 

we decided to sleep underneath one of the tables of people charge their phones, so I use the yoga mat  as a bed and we used the Turkish towels that I bought 

is covers and use various clothing as pillows. We slept, as well as who could considering the extreme dleeping all night at the airport we got up and Mary bought some



 coffee and an English muffin sandwich from the Starbucks. We did manage

 to get on the standby flight. Thank God for that. Soon as I sat in my seat,


 I fell asleep and I wrote back to Larry. Also, today I was determined to get my phone fixed so I ran back-and-forth to Apple Store. I showed up right after I arrived at Mary‘s. Dumped off my stuff and ran over to the Apple Store. They told me to come back at 11:30 
so I went to Mike’s and I ran back to the Apple Store at 11:30 and they told me to come back at 1:30. The phone was fixed successfully but it cost me 350 bucks, now I have to go back and edit my blogs and get my pictures resurfaced which will take at least a week. Believe it or not I ended up going to yoga class. I bought some turquoise shorts, which were very funny at the five and dime place near the five guys and the five below