Sorry its been a while but I have been rather busy. I am going to try to catch you all up. Last time I blogged it was the day before this volcano named EYJAFJALLAJOKULL (yess that is the real name, I did not just start hitting the keyboard) started to erupt, spilling ash into the air all over Europe. The last time a volcano spilled ash into the air and a plane flew into it, something like half of the planes crashed. This I guess was a very long time ago, so half of the planes really means something around 8. So with no information about what this would do to the plane engines, they shut down the air space all over Western Europe, and more importantly the UK. I guess this is the biggest flight disterbance in the history of the world, as major airports like Heathrow (London) have never been shut down for 6 days before. Its put British Airways into asking the gorvernment for a bail out and I guess had some damage on the economy becuase people selling fruit and perishables couldnt get their products into europe and they were just dying in the ports. British people were also stuck all over the world and running out of money staying in hotels with all their kids and it was a mess...this was also happening around the same time that the UK was having their first ever televised debate for the election of the new Prime Minister, which I felt bad about because it was totally over shadowed by the volcano.
Well I wasn't flying anywhere that weekend but I happened to have three friends and a father who were supposed to fly in to see me!! I was so excited for Sara, Jess McVey, and Mike Star to come see me for the weekend and for my dad to come and see his old college roommate, John, and to see him for a week. All of that was canceled. My dad was able to find a new flight leaving Wed. night and arriving Thursday morning. So I did end up seeing him very briefly in Thursday because I had my farewell dinner with my program, and then on Friday, when he helped my pack and take my bags to the airport to be left in left luggage for while I traveled and then we went out to a very fancy dinner in Covent Garden at this awesome french restaurant. I tried my very first escargot (snails....they were kinda weird...wouldn't eat them again) and then I had a crepe filled with lobster and prawns (shrimp) and mushrooms. It was to die for.
My farewell dinner was awesome. It was a three course meal in a hotel in London. Everyone got dressed up and we got some free t-shirts that say "I did it in London, Where will you do it?" and then it lists all the places that CAPA has programs. It was cute and funny and I have been wearing it to bed for the past week and a half. After that almost half my program went to a bar for international students with cheap drinks and they also have karaoke, so we can all imagine how that turned out. It was sad because everyone was saying goodbye and I realized how much Im going to miss London and everyone that I met here. I am super excited to come home but at the same time I never want to leave. I miss everyone at home wayy to much for me to have stayed here any longer than I have and I am very happy to be coming home to them soon.
On a happy note, many of the people in my program are from UMass and the University of Pittsburgh, so we have already set up trips for visits and I will hopefully be seeing most of my friends from London again very soon!
Miss everyone from home!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Easter Bunny and Espania!!
Hello all. So last time I left I think I was talk about dreaded Easter dinner for 25 people. Well no one else found stuff to do and they all invited their friends so we really did have more people than our apartment could hold but it was all worth it and so much fun.
On Friday I overslept and missed 13 calls from my dear friend Ellen (sorry El) and left her at the train station for 2 hours. Her fault really for coming at 630 in the morning, but whatever. I woke up and ran as fast as I could to the station where we were reunited in all of our love. It was great and then we napped and hung out all day. On Saturday we woke up and Ellen and her friend Marissa went for an adventure and I started preparing with my roommates for Easter dinner. This involved chopping up onions and celery for stuffing, which we made from scratch with 4 loaves of cut up bread. We cut up all that bread and we watched a movie. It was a lot of fun but the real work began the next day when we woke up at 9 am to start cleaning turkeys and pealing 300 pounds of potatoes. Turkeys were fine and were in the ovens by 11. (Ovens because we actually had to carry these turkeys across the apartment buildings to our friends ovens since 3 turkeys (yes three) don't fit in a UK oven (which barley holds one) ) Stuffing was interesting because the biggest pot we have is probably the size of the smallest one I own at home. So we made it in something like 6 batches. But let me tell you it was delicious!! Jenn and I probably ate enough for a meal while we weer making it. The rest of the food took forever and making potatoes involved something like 6 pots of boiling water. It was all a little hectic but everyone had the best time and loved all of our food. Everyone elses contribution was wine and beer, so needless to say we got a noise violation by the end of the night, but nothing happened in terms of repercussions (don't worry family). The rest of Ellen's trip here was awesome and It was so awesome to see someone from home. We went and saw Oliver and that was AWESOME and I took her to my favorite bar, ONeils, and to my favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Locos.
Ellen left Tuesday night while I was in class and a play called The Habit of Art. It was pretty cool. It was about a play, so a little confusing but the best part about it was that it was in one of my favorite theaters, the National, ANNNNDDD the main stars in it were Uncle Vernon and Madam Maxine from Harry Potter. It was pretty cool. Uncle Vernon is a large man and he was wearing a fat suit so he pretty much took up the whole stage but I'm not judging.
That Thursday we left bright and early for Madrid, Spain, which I have to say is one of my favorite places on earth. Mostly because it was the first time I have seen real sun in like 4 months. We were all kinda getting sick and we were all just wiped and we decided that we weren't going to jam pack this vacation like we did on spring break and so we went with absolutely no plans at all. It was the best thing we could do honestly and we pretty much just ate drank slept and ate for an entire weekend. We took siestas everyday (in true Spanish fashion) and we laid out in a park every afternoon. I couldn't have asked for a better vacation. We came back longing for Spain and very relaxed. We did actually do some touristy stuff for those of your that might freak out at me for not. We went to the cathedral, which was gorgeous! and we went to the palace and to all the other things we could do for free. I know i was told I had to go to the art museums but we didn't and I'm sorry everyone that told me to go, but we were tired and it was too nice out to smell museum air for 3 hours. But I don't regret any of that. I want to go back to Spain at some point, probably wont be happening on this trip but It was a great place to be.
I officially only have 11 days left in London and I am getting very sad, although also very very excited for my last 4 trips around Europe and then to go home. I miss everyone at home, and today I decided I was a little sick of getting dressed everyday and so I told my roommate that when I get home I'm going to wear sweats everyday for 2 weeks just to rub it in London's face. I have only been in scrubby clothes in my apartment and once to the grocery store to gt milk or something. But no one wears scrubs here! and I cant take that anymore. I just want to look like a slob already!
With only 11 days left we have started to cram everything we havent done yet in, so we decided that tonight we would go to this place called Ice Bar. Its a bar made enterily of ice and its kept so cold you need a parka and gloves to go in and your only allowed to stay for 45 mins. Im pretty excited because it sounds cool and since we can only stay for 45 min we decided that it would be a cool thing to do during the week instead of the weekend. So keep a look out for some pics of me in a parka!
Thats it for now everyone. Miss you all!
Cheers!
On Friday I overslept and missed 13 calls from my dear friend Ellen (sorry El) and left her at the train station for 2 hours. Her fault really for coming at 630 in the morning, but whatever. I woke up and ran as fast as I could to the station where we were reunited in all of our love. It was great and then we napped and hung out all day. On Saturday we woke up and Ellen and her friend Marissa went for an adventure and I started preparing with my roommates for Easter dinner. This involved chopping up onions and celery for stuffing, which we made from scratch with 4 loaves of cut up bread. We cut up all that bread and we watched a movie. It was a lot of fun but the real work began the next day when we woke up at 9 am to start cleaning turkeys and pealing 300 pounds of potatoes. Turkeys were fine and were in the ovens by 11. (Ovens because we actually had to carry these turkeys across the apartment buildings to our friends ovens since 3 turkeys (yes three) don't fit in a UK oven (which barley holds one) ) Stuffing was interesting because the biggest pot we have is probably the size of the smallest one I own at home. So we made it in something like 6 batches. But let me tell you it was delicious!! Jenn and I probably ate enough for a meal while we weer making it. The rest of the food took forever and making potatoes involved something like 6 pots of boiling water. It was all a little hectic but everyone had the best time and loved all of our food. Everyone elses contribution was wine and beer, so needless to say we got a noise violation by the end of the night, but nothing happened in terms of repercussions (don't worry family). The rest of Ellen's trip here was awesome and It was so awesome to see someone from home. We went and saw Oliver and that was AWESOME and I took her to my favorite bar, ONeils, and to my favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Locos.
Ellen left Tuesday night while I was in class and a play called The Habit of Art. It was pretty cool. It was about a play, so a little confusing but the best part about it was that it was in one of my favorite theaters, the National, ANNNNDDD the main stars in it were Uncle Vernon and Madam Maxine from Harry Potter. It was pretty cool. Uncle Vernon is a large man and he was wearing a fat suit so he pretty much took up the whole stage but I'm not judging.
That Thursday we left bright and early for Madrid, Spain, which I have to say is one of my favorite places on earth. Mostly because it was the first time I have seen real sun in like 4 months. We were all kinda getting sick and we were all just wiped and we decided that we weren't going to jam pack this vacation like we did on spring break and so we went with absolutely no plans at all. It was the best thing we could do honestly and we pretty much just ate drank slept and ate for an entire weekend. We took siestas everyday (in true Spanish fashion) and we laid out in a park every afternoon. I couldn't have asked for a better vacation. We came back longing for Spain and very relaxed. We did actually do some touristy stuff for those of your that might freak out at me for not. We went to the cathedral, which was gorgeous! and we went to the palace and to all the other things we could do for free. I know i was told I had to go to the art museums but we didn't and I'm sorry everyone that told me to go, but we were tired and it was too nice out to smell museum air for 3 hours. But I don't regret any of that. I want to go back to Spain at some point, probably wont be happening on this trip but It was a great place to be.
I officially only have 11 days left in London and I am getting very sad, although also very very excited for my last 4 trips around Europe and then to go home. I miss everyone at home, and today I decided I was a little sick of getting dressed everyday and so I told my roommate that when I get home I'm going to wear sweats everyday for 2 weeks just to rub it in London's face. I have only been in scrubby clothes in my apartment and once to the grocery store to gt milk or something. But no one wears scrubs here! and I cant take that anymore. I just want to look like a slob already!
With only 11 days left we have started to cram everything we havent done yet in, so we decided that tonight we would go to this place called Ice Bar. Its a bar made enterily of ice and its kept so cold you need a parka and gloves to go in and your only allowed to stay for 45 mins. Im pretty excited because it sounds cool and since we can only stay for 45 min we decided that it would be a cool thing to do during the week instead of the weekend. So keep a look out for some pics of me in a parka!
Thats it for now everyone. Miss you all!
Cheers!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Home Sweet Home
Hello everyone!
So today I wasn't feeling well when I woke up, I think I am coming down with a cold or something, but I called out of work so that I wouldn't be dead tonight when I had to go to class and a 3 hour long play for class. So Ill tell you all about my weekend. Well Wednesday night we do what we always do and we went to Imperial College for 1.50 beer night. That is always a lot of fun because its all college students and there is usually a football game one and people are just always in great friendly moods. We made some friends, the football team was there actually and they decided it would be a good night o have everyone dress up, and when I saw dress up I mean in ridiculous outfits like Pokemon, and animals, aliens, and anything else ridiculous you can think of. So there was a lot of us talking to them wondering what the heck was going on. We met up with our old ginger friend Frankie and made plans for later in the week to hang out. We also made plans with some other people, because we think its about time that we had some non-American friends. In all it was a great night, as usual.
Thursday night we stayed in because we were all starting to get sick (reason I stayed home today). I think its actually been miraculous how I haven't really gotten sick here that bad. I have had a couple colds here and there but for the amount of running around I have been doing and considering that I am in a large city with dirty air, I haven't been that bad. My roommate and I were actually talking the other day about how sometimes we blow our nose and its black! And she told me that's because of all the dirt in the air, and I just never knew. I was very surprised that my asthma hasn't killed me by now with that kinda air quality.
Friday night my roommates Erin and Mairead and I met up with my dad's college roommate John and his wife Jane for a few drinks. We went to a couple different places around London and just chatted and caught up. It was a great time tho and my roommates love John and Jane. After that we me up with someone we have hung out with a couple times at the college bar. His name is Quenten and he is french, but he lived in Canada for like 8 years so hes a little more grounded then just plain French people ;) He said that a bunch of his friends were going to this club and said we were more than welcome to join. We told him we don't usually do clubs because they are way to expensive and usually have an entrance fee, he said he knew someone there and that we could get in for free. Well he kinda lied but he got us in for 10 pounds instead of the usual 20. When we walked in it was like walking into a scene from my super sweet sixteen! There were chandeliers (spelling?) and all the walls has cushion like things on them and there were like velvet couches and it was just insane. So we stop drooling over this place (which we were very under dressed for by the way because we didnt know we were going to a club, and had dressed to meet up with John and Jane) and we go to the bar to order a drink. I get there and I am looking at the menu and my mouth dropped becuase bottles of wine were over 100 pounds and there was a bottle champagne for 1655 pounds! Can you believe that! I heard someone else ask the bartender what the cheapest thing on the menu was and he said a shot of liquor for 6 pounds. So I sucked it up and bought a 9 pound vodka tonic with lime. Needless to say that was my only drink at the club. But we had a blast dancing to the crazy music and watching all the rich people around us getting bottles of Grey Goose and lighting them on fire with sparklers and stuff..I think that type of place would be nice for a special occasion. Like maybe out last weekend here and we can all get dressed up and go to a nice place like that instead of slummin' it at the pubs. But for just a regular weekend out? This girl on a budget cant handle it!
Saturday night we were too tired form our hours of dancing that we decided to stay in. We had a few of our new british friends come over and we just hung out in our apartment and had a few drinks but I was fine with that because I got to do it all in my PJ's and slippers.
It wasnt a very exciting weekend in terms of adventures. This was the first weekend that we were not away somewhere and no one had anyone coming to visit, so it was nice just to be us. Next weekend tho is Easter and Ellen is coming from Paris to visit! I CANT WAIT! She is also bringing a friend or two and then my roommate Erin is also having a visitor so well be cozy like sardines this weekend.
On top of all of those guests, my roommates and I have decided that we should put on an Easter dinner for all of our friends. Well our guest list has kinda blown up and now were up to almost 25 people. I don't know where everyone will go (people will probably be eating on beds) or where were going to be able to get all this food from..but were going to try to make it work. Hopefully some people will just decided to do something else and we can get that list down to a few less people.
Well that's all for now. I have a play to go to tonight for my theater class. Should be good but Ill be out late so I'm going to take a nap to make sure I make it!
Ta!
So today I wasn't feeling well when I woke up, I think I am coming down with a cold or something, but I called out of work so that I wouldn't be dead tonight when I had to go to class and a 3 hour long play for class. So Ill tell you all about my weekend. Well Wednesday night we do what we always do and we went to Imperial College for 1.50 beer night. That is always a lot of fun because its all college students and there is usually a football game one and people are just always in great friendly moods. We made some friends, the football team was there actually and they decided it would be a good night o have everyone dress up, and when I saw dress up I mean in ridiculous outfits like Pokemon, and animals, aliens, and anything else ridiculous you can think of. So there was a lot of us talking to them wondering what the heck was going on. We met up with our old ginger friend Frankie and made plans for later in the week to hang out. We also made plans with some other people, because we think its about time that we had some non-American friends. In all it was a great night, as usual.
Thursday night we stayed in because we were all starting to get sick (reason I stayed home today). I think its actually been miraculous how I haven't really gotten sick here that bad. I have had a couple colds here and there but for the amount of running around I have been doing and considering that I am in a large city with dirty air, I haven't been that bad. My roommate and I were actually talking the other day about how sometimes we blow our nose and its black! And she told me that's because of all the dirt in the air, and I just never knew. I was very surprised that my asthma hasn't killed me by now with that kinda air quality.
Friday night my roommates Erin and Mairead and I met up with my dad's college roommate John and his wife Jane for a few drinks. We went to a couple different places around London and just chatted and caught up. It was a great time tho and my roommates love John and Jane. After that we me up with someone we have hung out with a couple times at the college bar. His name is Quenten and he is french, but he lived in Canada for like 8 years so hes a little more grounded then just plain French people ;) He said that a bunch of his friends were going to this club and said we were more than welcome to join. We told him we don't usually do clubs because they are way to expensive and usually have an entrance fee, he said he knew someone there and that we could get in for free. Well he kinda lied but he got us in for 10 pounds instead of the usual 20. When we walked in it was like walking into a scene from my super sweet sixteen! There were chandeliers (spelling?) and all the walls has cushion like things on them and there were like velvet couches and it was just insane. So we stop drooling over this place (which we were very under dressed for by the way because we didnt know we were going to a club, and had dressed to meet up with John and Jane) and we go to the bar to order a drink. I get there and I am looking at the menu and my mouth dropped becuase bottles of wine were over 100 pounds and there was a bottle champagne for 1655 pounds! Can you believe that! I heard someone else ask the bartender what the cheapest thing on the menu was and he said a shot of liquor for 6 pounds. So I sucked it up and bought a 9 pound vodka tonic with lime. Needless to say that was my only drink at the club. But we had a blast dancing to the crazy music and watching all the rich people around us getting bottles of Grey Goose and lighting them on fire with sparklers and stuff..I think that type of place would be nice for a special occasion. Like maybe out last weekend here and we can all get dressed up and go to a nice place like that instead of slummin' it at the pubs. But for just a regular weekend out? This girl on a budget cant handle it!
Saturday night we were too tired form our hours of dancing that we decided to stay in. We had a few of our new british friends come over and we just hung out in our apartment and had a few drinks but I was fine with that because I got to do it all in my PJ's and slippers.
It wasnt a very exciting weekend in terms of adventures. This was the first weekend that we were not away somewhere and no one had anyone coming to visit, so it was nice just to be us. Next weekend tho is Easter and Ellen is coming from Paris to visit! I CANT WAIT! She is also bringing a friend or two and then my roommate Erin is also having a visitor so well be cozy like sardines this weekend.
On top of all of those guests, my roommates and I have decided that we should put on an Easter dinner for all of our friends. Well our guest list has kinda blown up and now were up to almost 25 people. I don't know where everyone will go (people will probably be eating on beds) or where were going to be able to get all this food from..but were going to try to make it work. Hopefully some people will just decided to do something else and we can get that list down to a few less people.
Well that's all for now. I have a play to go to tonight for my theater class. Should be good but Ill be out late so I'm going to take a nap to make sure I make it!
Ta!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Side Track
Whats up Americans! Im going to take a little detour from my spring break catching up (or lack of) because I was not writing because I wanted it all to go in order but now I don't care and your all going to get to hear about some other stuff that's recent. yayy!
So after I got back from spring break, Matt was here for the week. I felt horrible because I had to work and go to class but I did call out one day and we went to the London Zoo...It was fun, it took FOREVER to find because its in the middle or a park and there are no signs, so we walked around for a very long time and it was cold, but we got to see some cool tigers, so I guess it was worth it. I also got him a ticket to a play that my Theater class was going to see. I was very happy about this because it was one of my favorite plays that I have seen. It was called Off The Endz, and it was about the projects in London and these people trying to get out of it and make something of themselves but how they get sucked back in to life in the projects because of drugs and stuff like that. Well it was hilarious and very good, and there was another naked man in this one, but I think Matt enjoyed it anyways.
Matt left on Sat. and I think I slept for 24 hours straight because I was so tired from Spring break and traveling and worrying about Matt alone in the city. But that was awesome
The next week I had to go to another play for my theater class and it was Enron! hahaha It was a musical about the Enron scandal and it was hilarious and if anyone is coming to London I would say go see it.
Ok thats it for right now because I have to go get some allergy shots!
peace and loveeee
So after I got back from spring break, Matt was here for the week. I felt horrible because I had to work and go to class but I did call out one day and we went to the London Zoo...It was fun, it took FOREVER to find because its in the middle or a park and there are no signs, so we walked around for a very long time and it was cold, but we got to see some cool tigers, so I guess it was worth it. I also got him a ticket to a play that my Theater class was going to see. I was very happy about this because it was one of my favorite plays that I have seen. It was called Off The Endz, and it was about the projects in London and these people trying to get out of it and make something of themselves but how they get sucked back in to life in the projects because of drugs and stuff like that. Well it was hilarious and very good, and there was another naked man in this one, but I think Matt enjoyed it anyways.
Matt left on Sat. and I think I slept for 24 hours straight because I was so tired from Spring break and traveling and worrying about Matt alone in the city. But that was awesome
The next week I had to go to another play for my theater class and it was Enron! hahaha It was a musical about the Enron scandal and it was hilarious and if anyone is coming to London I would say go see it.
Ok thats it for right now because I have to go get some allergy shots!
peace and loveeee
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Spring Break: Amsterdam
So after our very long and very cold train ride on the Eurostar from Brussels we arrived, very late, in Amsterdam! Let me start off talking about this stop by saying that although Amsterdam is known for some very promiscuous things, they are not the only things to do in the city. The city is actually BEAUTIFUL and full of a ton of history.
That being said, as soon as we got to the train station we gathered our very tired selves and headed to our hostel via cab. The man charged us a little more than we had expected but we were too tired to fight with him. Now prior to our arrival we were warned by our travel agent that where we were staying was pretty close to the red light district, but I was not prepared at all for what I saw. The area of the city that we had to drive through to get to our hostel literally glows red, and had half naked and almost fully naked women dancing in windows. It was very shocking but at the same time I cant complain because we were warned.
After a little trouble checking in at the Hans Brinker hostel, we were given our keys and headed off to our 4 person room, complete with bunk beds, a bathroom/shower, and lockers (so no one would steal our stuff). So we decided to unpack a little and then Erin's friend decided she better go off to her room to sleep...and the door wouldn't open. We were trying for 10 minutes to open the door to our hostel room with no success. We then (and by we I mean me) had to proceed to call the front desk from my cell phone to ask them to send someone down to room number 9 because we were locked in. The man then says "your locked out?" and I had to repeat "no, we are locked in" and after a long pause he promised to send someone over soon. A man knocks and asks us to open the door, so I then had to explain AGAIN that we were locked in our room. He opened it and then shut himself in with us to show us how to unlock it. He then unlocked it with no problem and left. So that man definitely thought that we were anything but sober, but we were too tired to care.
We woke up early the next morning and after our free complimentary "breakfast", which was actually just bread, and went to the city center for a free walking tour of the city. The tour was about three and
a half hours and was the same thing we did in Dublin. Our tour guide was ADORABLE! None of us can actually remember his name but we were all very much in love with him. It was raining all morning, but it seemed to break up a little during the tour and we were able to see our first glimpse of sunlight since we left London. We saw a lot of the city and learned a lot about the culture and history (if you are interested in learning some you can email me, but for now you can just now that the city is incredible). After the tour we went with our tour guide to a pub for some lunch. He told us a few places to go out that night and some areas to stay away from. But for the most part the city is very safe. Actually a fact I did learn is that despite poplar belief, marijuana is illegal in Amsterdam, however not a single person has been arrested since the law came into place 30 years ago. They are starting to get a little tighter with the laws saying that no one who doesn't already have a "coffee shop" can create a new one. But the way the city is getting around that is to create franchises. The city actually has the least drug addicts in the EU, because all of the people who would usually be going into rehab for all their cocaine usage, just smoke pot instead. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me! One of my favorite stops on the walking tour was when we went to this little area that used to be a secret church. The church was actually where the pilgrims went after leaving England, and before coming to America, as a place to escape religious persecution. I felt very cool, since those are my ancestors, and I have never had anything like that before. We also learned about the history of the liberal-ness of the city and saw a lot of beautiful canals and buildings.After that I did one of the most depressing things I have ever and will ever do , and we went to Anne Franks house. It was the house that she and her family hid in during the Nazi occupation in WWII. Amsterdam actually helped to hide many Jews during the war, and right before the Nazis invaded, they sent all but 7 Jews over to Sweden (I think) so that they wouldn't be taken into camps. I actually started crying in the house (now turned into a museum) as I watched a video of Otto Frank talk about Anne, and how he felt when he came back and years later when he read her diary. He started talking about how sad he was because he never actually knew her, and talked about how he would give anything to see his family again. It was very depressing, but I would honestly tell people to go, just for that museum.
After that we decided that we all needed a little alone time and went back to our hostel to take a little nap and cry and stuff.
The nap was pretty uneventful, but we woke up in time to make it to the Heineken Experience, which was AWESOME. Everyone was so friendly and we learned how drink our beer properly, right before we got on to ride to be brewed like a bottle of beer. The whole place was very cool and i loved it, so I decided my new favorite beer is Heineken :) At the end of the whole experience you are given two beers to enjoy at a bar. When we walked in there was a group of men who came up to us and said that their friend was celebrating his bachelor party an asked if we would sign our name on his shirt and give him a kiss on the cheek. I thought the idea was adorable and that any man who came to Amsterdam for his bachelors party and spends it at the Heineken Bar asking for women for kisses on the cheek is a saint, so I did it, and then they took a picture to make a nice little scrap book of all of his "scores".
Well in all the Heineken Experience was awesome and to commemorate that i got myself a sweatshirt. I'm a sucker for a nice hoodie though.
The next day we woke up to more rain and decided today would be he day for the Van Gogh Museum. It was pretty incredible but we were all very tired and famished so we left after maybe an hour and a half to get some food and try to check in our flight so we found an internet cafe which was also a "coffee shop" we saw this stuff called cheese pot and i
thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. But we check in no problem and then went to an Italian place for food where plates of pasta were 5 euros. I was very excited about this and almost order two because I haven't seen food that cheap since I have been in Europe. (I didn't). After a long day of wondering around the streets of Amsterdam, which is BEAUTIFUL but very easy to get lost because its all made up of rings of canals, we found our way to a pub for some drinks and then went to bed since we had to wake up at 5 am the next day to head off to Copenhagen!!In all Amsterdam is somewhere everyone should visit. The End
Sprng Break: Brussels
I apologize for this EXTREMELY delayed post but I have been very busy. I also understand that no one can see the pictures that I put up? Ill try to work on that asap...
SOOOO for spring break my 3 other roommates and I decided to do a little tour of continental Europe. Our first stop was in Brussels, Belgium. We woke up very early to get to the train station by 7 am. We were very very tired and it was a bit of a struggle to get there, especially since the tube doesn't start running regularly until later in the day but we got there and checked in successfully. We had some food and saw a group of men drinking...at 7 am...we were a bit confused but maybe it was the start of some bachelor party or something. The train ride was around 3 hours from London to Brussels, and we slept the whole way...I was a little sad about that since Im sure it was very scenic but it was very early. We get to Brussels and we meet up with one of Erin's friends from home. She has no one to travel with over her spring break while studying in Rome, so she tagged along with us for the
week. The first thing we did of course was get lost, then we walked around the city and found a waffle stand. I got a Belgium waffle with Belgium chocolate and it was the best thing I have ever tasted. Then we decoded to go see the only thing that Brussels is famous for, besides being the headquarters for the European Union, and that is the Mannekin Pis. Its a statue that is also a water fountain of a little boy peeing. It sounded very funny and we thought it would be nice to see..and we were seeing chocolate molds in shop windows of the statues and they were adorable. We get to the statues and we almost walked right past it because it was so small...we just stood there thinking we were on candid camera because we had heard all these stories about how the towns people dress him up for special occasion
s and how much they love him. Well the entire statues is in the corner of two buildings and hes probably the size of my head. It was very disappointing but we took some pictures and decided to keep going.
There is also a square in Brussels called the Grand Place and it was in fact very grand. It was a lot of gold plated buildings all very ornate and beautiful, we walked around there for a while but started to get cold so we stopped in a pub for a drink before we decided to get back to the train station to catch a train to the oh so lovely Amsterdam. The train station however was a nightmare, but after many platform switches, a few delayed trains and seeing s
ome drunk people puke we finally caught a train out of Brussels around 10 pm.
SOOOO for spring break my 3 other roommates and I decided to do a little tour of continental Europe. Our first stop was in Brussels, Belgium. We woke up very early to get to the train station by 7 am. We were very very tired and it was a bit of a struggle to get there, especially since the tube doesn't start running regularly until later in the day but we got there and checked in successfully. We had some food and saw a group of men drinking...at 7 am...we were a bit confused but maybe it was the start of some bachelor party or something. The train ride was around 3 hours from London to Brussels, and we slept the whole way...I was a little sad about that since Im sure it was very scenic but it was very early. We get to Brussels and we meet up with one of Erin's friends from home. She has no one to travel with over her spring break while studying in Rome, so she tagged along with us for the
week. The first thing we did of course was get lost, then we walked around the city and found a waffle stand. I got a Belgium waffle with Belgium chocolate and it was the best thing I have ever tasted. Then we decoded to go see the only thing that Brussels is famous for, besides being the headquarters for the European Union, and that is the Mannekin Pis. Its a statue that is also a water fountain of a little boy peeing. It sounded very funny and we thought it would be nice to see..and we were seeing chocolate molds in shop windows of the statues and they were adorable. We get to the statues and we almost walked right past it because it was so small...we just stood there thinking we were on candid camera because we had heard all these stories about how the towns people dress him up for special occasion
s and how much they love him. Well the entire statues is in the corner of two buildings and hes probably the size of my head. It was very disappointing but we took some pictures and decided to keep going.There is also a square in Brussels called the Grand Place and it was in fact very grand. It was a lot of gold plated buildings all very ornate and beautiful, we walked around there for a while but started to get cold so we stopped in a pub for a drink before we decided to get back to the train station to catch a train to the oh so lovely Amsterdam. The train station however was a nightmare, but after many platform switches, a few delayed trains and seeing s
ome drunk people puke we finally caught a train out of Brussels around 10 pm.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Sorry
Hello all of my loyal readers....I know it has been a very long time since I have updated you in my life stories and I am apologizing..... I came back from spring break with a weeks worth of adventures to write about....(which i kept a journal while away so Im not forgetting anything dont worry!) ....and then Matt came to visit and that adds a lot more adventures to write about and subtracts time to write them....I am working on updating my 900 new pictures for the next few days and I Promise that the blog will be up to date soon enough...again apologies (sarah) Ill be back on track again soon....also those of you who have your own blogs that you write....if you could write me a little summery of your last few posts so that i can catch up quicker it would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!!!
Cheers!!!
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