Adventures in Spain: April 2011

This past weekend Chris, Eric, LP, and I met up in Amsterdam with four Auburn girls that are studying outside of Rome! It was soooo much fun! And so good to see some familiar faces! We arrived Thursday night and found our awesome apartment that we rented for the weekend. It was four stories with the fourth being an outdoor terrace which overlooked the city! It was incredible. The apartment was very typical Europe with small floors and very steep, skinny, and high staircases.. Those were definitely challenging (and a workout). Friday we ventured off to find Anne Frank's house, which was so interesting and cool to see. I always loved reading and learning about the Holocaust and to see the tiny space she lived in for 2 years was really cool, but also very sad. After the house we found an awesome pancake place... They were sooo good. Not your typical pancake, it was more like a really thin pizza, but still very good! Then we walked around some more and picked up some food to cook in. Saturday we met up with the girls at the Van Gogh museum, which was a good 45 minute walk away. It was really cool though, I didn't think art interested me that much but I was really intrigued by his work. It was all so pretty! Then we walked to Dam Square, which is a famous square in Amsterdam, but the main building was being renovated so it was all covered by tarp.. not that cute. But the big statue was super cool and there was some weird protest/pillow fight going on next to it.. Interesting to witness.. Then Chris, Eric, and I decided to enjoy our terrace on such a pretty day and grabbed some snacks and beverages on the way home! We sat out there for like 2 hours just talking and laughing and enjoying the weather! It was fun. We cooked at home again and then went on a tour cruise of all the canals that went through most of the city! We walked through the red light district.. which was... interesting, to say the least. Won't go into much detail about that buttt guess there's a first for everything? We grabbed some famous fries with a mysterious white sauce smothered all over them on the way home and then we went back to the appt! Overall such a fun weekend, another city that was so different than anywhere I've been!

don't look down..

our street!

one of my good friends thats studying in rome!

auburn girls + maitri!

view from the terrace!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while... I've been really busy and kinda lazy haha but here's the recap of the past month. About a month ago two of my best friends from home came to visit me for a week. They stayed with me and my family which was very nice of my family to allow and we had a great time all week. We stayed in Alcala and Madrid and I showed them all around! Two weeks ago me and my dad went to Switzerland. We stayed in Geneva one night and then stayed in Interlaken for four nights. The bed and breakfast we stayed at in Interlaken was the cutest little place I've ever stayed. It was run by a Swiss father and son and they were both so friendly and welcoming. We skied two days in the Alps, which was like a 45 minute train up the mountain. It was absolutely beautiful... the view of the Alps as the backdrop was unreal. We tried a bunch of local food and overall had some awesome food in Switzerland like Schnitzel, Chicken Cordon Bleu, etc. Very good.. but they eat a lot of horse there... ew/sad :( We had an awesome week together it was so good to see my daddy and show him around my little town!