Day 15 - January 23, 2011

Well, since I got home at 3 in the morning last night I slept soundly until noon today!  I tried to sleep longer because I was mentally preparing myself for the all night shoot that was going to happen tonight.  We have a call time of 8:00 p.m., but I just couldn't sleep anymore.

Amy and I had talked about doing something, really anything because we wanted to do something for ourselves on our semi-day off.  So what did we decide to do...shopping.  None of you should really be surprised, let's be honest!  We headed to Dam Square.  It is surrounded by shops, boulangeries, Madame Tussaud's, palaces and the biggest phallic statue/monument that I have seen since the Washington Monument.  Picture below.

And here are some other touristy pictures that I was finally able to take during our dreary-weathered morning out.

Before heading home to take a power nap and relax before a night of shooting, Amy and I stopped at a boulangerie (french for bakery) and I stocked up on sweets and then headed home for nap time.  I slept for 3 hours and when I woke the three of us girls were driven to Albert Haijn (grocery store) by Erwin to stock up on food for the night because we were told we weren't getting a hot meal.  Erwin, how do I describe him?  I have taught the locals this saying "Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none" and that is all I need to say about Erwin.  He thinks about half as much as he talks and sometimes he is a little too much to handle, but he was giving us a ride to the store so I was grateful, but annoyed at the same time!


When it was time for our pickup, we were taken just outside the city of Amsterdam to our lead actor and producers house, Rik Sinkeldam.  This is where we were meeting for the shoot and setting up makeup and wardrobe.  Our set location was a creepy overpass on a dimly lit road.  We brought our own generator to light the scene just as we needed so the whole scene looked great but it was quite miserable.  It was drizzling the whole time and we only had the passenger van to keep us dry during takes, so no one really utilized the van, we all braved the rain.  But I was amped on practically a liter of Red Bull so there was no way that I was falling asleep and I was in a very, very good mood!  I was actually probably too much for people to handle on the Red Bull.  People dislike cheerful Americans and they dislike them even more when they are bouncing off the walls at one in the morning when all anyone wants to be is home asleep.  But now since I have gotten to midnight in my story and I am about to start a new day I will continue this story in a new post.

See you there.

-M