Well, we are thoroughly exhausted and anxious to board our flight so that we can try to sleep for a couple of hours. We have, however, enjoyed figuring out a couple of things about Amsterdam:
1. The toilet paper in the bathrooms in the airport is bright orange. I'm talking Halloween orange. We had quite a lengthy discussion about why on Earth would the toilet paper be orange, and then we figured it out - it's the color of their sports teams (and maybe even their national color???)
2. There is a little fly painted in each urinal. Eric told me about it, and then I remembered a report we heard on NPR about how the janitors at the airport were tired of cleaning up boy messes and they tried an experiment with painting flies in the urinals. No more mess. Apparently, the flies provide something to aim for.
OK - so maybe that isn't very exciting info about Amsterdam, but hey, we're stuck in an airport for four hours! Not much else to discover. Although we did enjoy sampling cheeses and eating Haagen Das. Also enjoyed looking at postcards of the beautiful and interesting sites that we aren't seeing. :)
4 comments:
Hope you got a couple of the postcards as mento's of the "Journey to the Center of the Earth"...I just check via the lost luggage website and your stuff is on it's way to Bangladesh via tramp steamer. It should make it to Houston in time for Eric's b-day :-)
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I was thinking about the toilet paper, maybe it is the color of the rival team??? thta would be more in keeping with its purpose...yes??
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Dutch are playing the World Cup. Orange is the national color for sure. Goes all the way back to William of Orange type stuff. I would agree though why would you want it as toilet paper?
Wish that fly trick worked for public women's restrooms. Orange toilet paper, huh? That's pretty wild. You're bringing some back for posterity (bah-dum-dum), right?
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