Afternoon in Amsterdam!

After our overnight flgiht from Toronto, we finally landed in Amsterdam!  We knew we would have a 9 hour layover, so decided to trek into the city.  After semi-successfully navigating the Schipol airport, we managed to get tickets on a train into the city center.  Our ride was smooth, as we were almost certainly in the silent compartment (something we only noticed after half an hour of excited conversation).  Oops!  Once in the city center, we started our mission to locate the "I Amsterdam" sign - not an easy task as we were quick to learn that it moves on a regular basis.  But, this journey was happily interrupted by coffee, lattes, and lunch at Bagels and Beans (coffee beans, not fava, green or string).  Fed and caffinated, we found the sign and proceeded to take an exorbitant amount of pictures of it, on it, with it and in it.  After what was likely an hour photoshoot, we ventured on to the Heineken brewery to jump on the last self-directed tour of the day.  Highlights include free beer and a 4-dimensional-being-brewed experience.  Soon after we realized that as great as being brewed was, it was not worth missing our flight to Nairobi.  And thus began our Amazing Race style journey back to the airport.  An hour of sweaty speed walking, street navigating and people/bike dodging later (who knew there was a separate bike lane off-limits to all pedestrians?!) we arrived back at Schipol airport and boarded our flight.  Off to Nairobi!