Here's the past few months in a nutshell. By the way, Happy New Year!
New Years -worked. Yay! Good patients. Please pray for a young patient. We stood and toasted with sparkling cider at the nurses station.
And,
because I had just landed, ran home to pick up scrubs and jet off to work -I forgot my wallet at home -was going to order food in, but obviously couldn't
fortunately,
one of the other nurses brought in a bunch of yummy food.
Funny how things like that (homework that needs to be done, supplies/food that is needed...
ALWAYS shows up.
Good work God!)
Christmas Vacation -Odenton/Baltimore, MD
-Pretty Good flights in and out of DC/Reagan Airport
-Too much facebooking...
-BOWLING with all 7 of us
-LOTS of snuggling
-Baking/making messes in the kitchen
-Monopoly with us 5 buddy pals
-More snuggling with mom
-Shopping
-Saw 'How do you know' at the theatre with the sissies
-Slept in
-Dad's church
-Mom's church
-and, of course, CHRISTMAS!
Holland and Belgium 2010 Trip Summary (also in Facebook Notes).
Saturday Nov 20th
1800 -Depart from Dulles Airport
Sunday Nov 21st
0700 -Arrive in Amsterdam
Walked around Amsterdam, a little lost
Found a restaurant we agreed on...
Yummy breakfast and great, strong coffee with a little tea cookie
Searched for a church...ended up in the Red Light District on accident!
Had a beer, soup, and our first AWESOME PASTRIES
Checked into The Backstage Hotel
Took a nap
Went to dinner at Bergermeister
Went to a pub and conversed with some new European friends
Ate cheese, bread, and drank some great Belgian beer
Monday Nov 22nd
Went to a cute dutch bakery
Saw the Van Gogh Museum
Had a fancy lunch with great beer and chocolate mousse for dessert
Took Train to Groningen
Talked to Dutch symphony student on the train
She walked us to our hostel
Stayed at Bud-gett Hostel
Went to Dutch grocery store
Ate dinner at hostel and went to be early
Tuesday November 23rd
Ate breakfast at hostel then went shopping
And found a HEMA (European Target/Ikea like store).
Continued to shop
Found a bank then ate more pastries!
Took the train to Utretcht
Met Kate at the Train station
Settled into her apartment
With Maartin, we all went to a lovely tapas bar by bike
Enjoy conversation, yummy, real Spanish food and wine
Biked to Kate’s favorite bar to sample Belgian’s best brews...So many to choose from
Biked home and slept
Wednesday Nov 24th
Took train to Brussels
Sarah was creeped out by the people in the train station
Went to Belgium police station
Took taxi to hotel
Hotel elevator by our room was noisy, we switched rooms
Mom and Sarah venture out for dinner
Where are all the Women?
Who are all these creepy guys...?
Found a stylish new Asian restaurant, served by Middle Eastern men
The menu was in French or German, we spoke Spanish and tried not to look American
Then we ventured off to find some Belgium bars.
Finally decided on a bar and conversed with funny French workers
Enjoyed Belgian coffee with our beer
Took cab to hotel
Thursday Nov 25th
Enjoyed fancy breakfast
Toured Brussels in a cab, real quick
Conversed with Polish filmmaker
Arrived in Brussels, ate lunch at Greek sandwich shop
Old, hospitable, military man walked us to our hostel
He kept talking about the Belgium army
We enjoyed a few rounds
Mom and I went to a quaint place for dinner
We walked around the city
Mom ‘slept’ at the Bauhaus Hotel while I partied with new worldly friends at the hostel
Friday Nov 26th
Cuddled with mom
Ate breakfast at hotel/hostel pub
We walked around the windmills
Went to Christmas market
Had hot chocolate, a belgian waffle, & shopped
Took train back to Holland
Had to switch trains
Avoided Crazy Amsterdam
Went to ** Hotel ** and took a bath
Ordered yummy duck (fancy food) via lovely room service
Went to bed
Saturday Nov 27th
Returned to the States
See Facebook for more pics
