The Flight

It wasn’t too bad, I finally got to see Blades of Glory. We managed to get some sleep on the plane, and we actually arrived early, despite it leaving 20 minutes late. The Amsterdam airport isn’t much different than Toronto’s, except the baggage carts are free, or at least ours was. That made negotiating the airport much easier. A cabby told us 55 Euros to get to the city center and the train ticket was 3.60 each. Pretty obvious which route we took. This was the first time we actually had to carry our bags since leaving Burlington during our move. They both weighed in at around 50 lbs, and our backpacks were nearly 20 lbs. This was probably the one part of our trip that we would have to say was the worst during the first two days. Lugging those bags from the train station to BW Campers was awful, by the time we got there (and we did head in the wrong direction for a bit) we were exhausted. This was when we received our first set of bad news. When we were at the bank getting travelers checks to pay for the camper, we realized that we had forgotten about the 1100 euros for insurance and 1000 euros for registering the car (that registration seems a bit steep, considering Canada is only 80 bucks, but apparently it’s mostly taxes). I know that I was told in an email about these fees, but I forgot and it didn’t change the fact that we didn’t have enough money to pay for the van. So, we went and cashed our travelers cheques, withdrew what cash we could and put the remainder on our credit cards.