Queen's Day weekend
Every year, on the 30th of April, Holland celebrates the Queen's Day, and Amsterdam is the main spot. Thousands of people from not only Holland, but also abroad, come to the city to enjoy its transformation into an open air city-wide festival that goes beyond crazy and wild! And it all starts on the evening of the 29th (appropriately named Queen's Night). This year, the Queen's day fell on Monday, which was great because that meant a whole long weekend of celebration! And what a weekend!
On Friday me and Paulo already had people coming over to sleep the whole weekend at our place. These were three sweet sisters (Jenny, Karolin and Theres) from Germany, who actually came to spend the weekend without knowing it was the busiest weekend of the whole year!
Also on Friday I spent the evening with Miss C., as she was going Saturday morning to New York, to spend a lovely week with her parents. Although I knew I was going to miss her a lot, I really wanted her to enjoy the most she could in the city that never stops! So, Saturday started not so nice because I had my sweet Miss C. going away from me, but since it is for a good reason (her having a blast!) I could easily fill up my joy again during the day, specially since I had my Casino Royale party coming up that evening. Although somethings didn't go as planned (and believe me, they will change pretty soon!), I had a lot of fun and I guess everyone as well!
Then Sunday came and the celebrations started! We went to Niewmarkt, a popular spot to start the evening, where an enthusiastic and funny band was playing and making us all move to their 70's sounds like crazy! After dancing too much, drinking a lot, and talking and hugging too many unknown people, when the bash was finished we moved on to the Chocolate bar in Heinekenplein, which was completely crowded but still a lot of fun to be at!
There were not much hours of sleep before the beats of music in boats started pumping through the walls on Monday! I woke up with a smile and started also playing loud music for everyone at home to wake up and smell the party fever going on outside! What a blast! We walked a bit around the city, and then went to dance at the Stoperaplein the whole afternoon... well, at least until deciding to also go to the Chemistry party at the Amstelveld! The whole day met with tons of known friends, SMSing and calling all the time, on the huge mess that is this frentic celebration! I just can't wait for next year's ;-)
On Friday me and Paulo already had people coming over to sleep the whole weekend at our place. These were three sweet sisters (Jenny, Karolin and Theres) from Germany, who actually came to spend the weekend without knowing it was the busiest weekend of the whole year!
Also on Friday I spent the evening with Miss C., as she was going Saturday morning to New York, to spend a lovely week with her parents. Although I knew I was going to miss her a lot, I really wanted her to enjoy the most she could in the city that never stops! So, Saturday started not so nice because I had my sweet Miss C. going away from me, but since it is for a good reason (her having a blast!) I could easily fill up my joy again during the day, specially since I had my Casino Royale party coming up that evening. Although somethings didn't go as planned (and believe me, they will change pretty soon!), I had a lot of fun and I guess everyone as well!
Then Sunday came and the celebrations started! We went to Niewmarkt, a popular spot to start the evening, where an enthusiastic and funny band was playing and making us all move to their 70's sounds like crazy! After dancing too much, drinking a lot, and talking and hugging too many unknown people, when the bash was finished we moved on to the Chocolate bar in Heinekenplein, which was completely crowded but still a lot of fun to be at!
There were not much hours of sleep before the beats of music in boats started pumping through the walls on Monday! I woke up with a smile and started also playing loud music for everyone at home to wake up and smell the party fever going on outside! What a blast! We walked a bit around the city, and then went to dance at the Stoperaplein the whole afternoon... well, at least until deciding to also go to the Chemistry party at the Amstelveld! The whole day met with tons of known friends, SMSing and calling all the time, on the huge mess that is this frentic celebration! I just can't wait for next year's ;-)
