I just got back from Amsterdam a couple of hours ago. I was there for 28 hours and felt like I saw a whole lot of the city, so with your 3 days, you should have plenty of time. You must go to the Rijksmuseum (sp?). Spend a lot of time on the second floor -- in the Hall of Honor (I think that's the name) where Rembrandt's The Night Watch and other tremendous works hang. That whole floor is awesome. Also, you must go to the Anne Frank House. Those are the two purely tourist-y things I did and they were both great. Most of all, walk. Amsterdam is an amazing city. I'm not lying when I say I probably walked 10 miles from 7 am yesterday to 9 pm. Definitely get some Indonesian food. The place that I went to wasn't so great, but hey, there aren't too many Indonesian restaurants in Chicago so I figured I had to try it. In the pantheon of East Asian food, I'd rank it below Korean, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese -- so I guess it's toward the bottom. But I haven't had Laotian yet!!