From Amsterdam

So pretty funny story, we got to the train station in Amsterdam and needed to transfer to the metro lines to get to a different station. Since we thought we were pros by now, we just bought single tickets to the Amsterdam Centraal and that was that. When we tried to get through the barrier on to the platform, there was no where to put the ticket, and since we needed to get through a turn stop thingy, we were kinda lost. It seemed like there was some sort of "to go" mechanism but our tickets just were not doin the trick. We stood there like tool muffins for like 2 minutes swiping our train tickets over this magnetic thing. After that didn't work, sarah pressed this info button that was maybe also labeled SOS and the thing started beeping so we walked away pretty quickly...we finally asked and found out we had bought train tickets, not metro tickets. Oops.