Ok - "quick" update! Random fact - Chocolate is not allowed at our school. Weird. I bring it everyday.
Went to Brussels with Susanna two weeks ago (Friday to Monday) to spend
the weekend with some friends of hers from school. Ate a lot of
chocolate (chocolate shops EVERYWHERE!!!), waffels smothered in nutella
(heavenly!), and other yummies. We wandered the city a lot, eventually
could give other directions. :) Her friends were super sweet and we were
spoiled. It's a comic book city so a lot of the building sides have
cartoons on them. Walked and saw lots of sights - the main square in the
city, the Mannequin Pis (fountain of a baby peeing). the anatonium and
mini Europe (has 350 miniture models of famous European buildings like
the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.).
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| German wine and Belgian Beer. |
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| Night art event? |
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| At Erin's favorite place in Brussels |
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| Best Doughy Waffels w/ Nutella |
The weather was AMAZING. Definitely happy about that since this past
weekend was rain rain rain. We went out to a night festival called "Nuit
Blanche"- an art
festival that runs from 11pm-5am. There was a whole bunch of exhibits
throughout the city - many of them were very strange, like whoever made
them was on drugs. Yeah? Watched and cheered on the runners in the
Brussels Marathon while we walked around. Reminded me of watching the
Venice Marathon w/ B and Mom last year. Tender.
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| Me in a nutshell. |
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| Melting wax art. |
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| Grand Place. |
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| TinTin! |
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| Anatonium and Mini Europe | | |
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Amsterdam this past week with Hanni, Sarah, and Susanna was pretty
awesome in that I got a lot of shopping done. I bought boots!!! Who's
proud? Not cheap boots either. Amsterdam has some pretty awesome
shopping. We shopped everyday, went to the Rijks Museum, Sex Museum, a
Coffee Shop, and walked a lot and shopped a lot. The library is SWEET
and has an awesome view of the city. I want to live in that library. The
weather was crap pretty much the whole time. Rain, no rain and really
cold, more rain. The day we left the sun shined. Ugh. So Frankie is
beautiful right now. Just really cold. Yay for warm sweats!!!! peace and
love.
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| Amsterdam Church Cobblestones |
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| the bike that seated four. |
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| Susanna, Sarah, and Me |
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| View from library |
The weather was AMAZING. Definitely happy about that since this past
weekend was rain rain rain. We went out to a night festival called "Nuit
Blanche"- an art
festival that runs from 11pm-5am. There was a whole bunch of exhibits
throughout the city - many of them were very strange, like whoever made
them was on drugs. Yeah? Watched and cheered on the runners in the
Brussels Marathon while we walked around. Reminded me of watching the
Venice Marathon w/ B and Mom last year. Tender. 
