Anne Frank House

During our free weekend, Lauren, Ross, A.J. and I ventured to Amsterdam. And what an adventure it was. After being ditched by the boys within the first hour of being there, Lauren and I realized it was just the two of us for the weekend. We wandered around a foreign city for two hours looking for their hotel in the dark and when we finally found it, they had left. Scary - I know. The entire city had a certain scary aspect to it. Or maybe it was just how different it was from anything I could have ever imagined and it came off very frightening to me. Lauren seemed to find it very amusing, including my reactions to everything because I was in such shock. Besides the unique activities the city has going on, it is also a beautiful place with canals running through it. There are pre-World War 2 boats in each canal that you can ride and tour Amsterdam.
The most interesting and cultural part of the city was the Anne Frank House. I guess in the beginning I thought that since I was Amsterdam, I couldnt leave without seeing the house. However, after I went inside - I was so happy that I had. The museum costs 7.50 euro and you walk through out the house. On every wall, there are quotes from Anne Frank's Diary. They strategically set up the house to have quotes from the beginning of her life during the beginning of the tour, and by the time you reach the attic where the family hid, there are quotes about the Nazi's envading Holland and being around her town. The entrance to their hiding point was hid by a bookcase that had been opening up. You have to climb up a 2 foot step to get into the hiding place. And then you climb two stair cases that rested on a 150 degree angle, very very steep. We saw the room that Anne Frank slept in, and her kitchen. Even though I have read her book, it made me want to read it again so that I could picture everything she is talking about. Though I would have never wanted to be alive in Amsterdam as a Jew during this time, like the Colleseum, I wish I could go back in time and just see how things really went on during the time that all of these important historical events happened. It was amazing to be in the same exact place that Anne Frank hid from the Nazis during World War 2.