A cool hotel room and some sleep fixed a lot of things. I felt much better in the morning.
If you have noticed in all the past photos of this trip, the weather appears gray. It was. When we left Indiana the Midwest was being scorched by 90 degrees temperatures day in and day out. When we arrived in Amsterdam it was is in the low 70's and spitting rain. Despite the rain, we welcomed the cooler weather. It stayed in the mid-70's throughout our first week in Europe. However, the weekend we went to Paris things started heating up.
Ireland remained nice and cool. I think I'm wearing the same fleece pullover in almost every picture due to the cooler temperatures. However, while we were in Ireland the European continent turned into an oven. The night we arrived in Amsterdam the city had set a new record high of 101 degrees during the day. When we checked in with our daughter in the morning she was miserable. The Hostel did not have adequate air conditioning and she was burning up. She was supposed to check out by 10 am Saturday anyway so we asked if she'd like to check out a day early and stay at the hotel with us. She said "yes" in a heartbeat.
We were originally booked at the Moxy for two nights but our room was not large enough for three people. After an hour on the phone with Marriott Bonvoy customer service my husband was able to get our reservation switched to the Residence Inn - which just happened to be the top several floors of the building we were already in.
View from the Residence Inn
We were definitely in a more industrial part of Amsterdam
Nice spacious pull out couch for my daughter
Nice air conditioned room for us
After moving into our new room my husband and I went back into central Amsterdam. My daughter had an end of session performance at 2 pm and my husband wanted to check out the cheese shops before then.
We found some incredible old aged goat milk gouda here but decided we'd better get it later rather than carry it around with us in 90 degree weather. We ended up getting some snacks for lunch and eating them in a park before heading to the theater.
After my daughter's show we went back to the Hostel and moved her out. By now we were all hot and cranky again. We took the tram back to Centraal Station and decided we were too hot and tired to try and come back into central Amsterdam again so we picked up some groceries and took the bus back to our hotel.
We spent the evening cooling down and resting. It was getting time to go home.
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