Hallo!


One of my really good friends from school is visiting! She got to Utrecht yesterday and today we are heading into Amsterdam to spend the next couple of days there as it is her first time in ze nethanethalands. Cue tour-guide Arielle.


I gave her the world's most specific directions to get to my apartment yesterday, since I was in class and couldn't be there to meet her myself, which included the following: "The elevator has graffiti on it lol but dont be freaked out, its fine" as I personally remember the first time I saw that elevator and if it weren't for Rachel who was standing in front of me, I would have been entirely sure that I was at the completely wrong place. I mean, the whole living in a building with an elevator covered in graffiti wasn't exactly part of my pretty little picture of what I imagined Utrecht to be like. Thus, I felt she deserved a fair warning. Any who, she made it in one piece. I gave her the shopping tour of Utrecht yesterday after a delicious lunch at one of my favorite, and probably one of the better places in town-- De Bakkerswinkel. We then came back to my apartment and I gave her the grand tour, during which I made sure to show her my bike and the lovely sheep that live outside. Some people wake up to birds chirping, I wake up to sheep baaing. You say to-ma-to, I say tumatoe. You catch my drift? We then went into town around 9:30ish for dinner at Bis (another goodie) and went to Cafe Belgie to finish off our night! For those beer fanatics out there, Cafe Belgie has an impressively large collection of beer-- cherry, blonde, strawberry, 12% alcohol content , you name it. 


But for now, its breakfast time for us over here in the Nethanethalands... we have a full day ahead of us! Tot Ziens (Goodbye in Dutch. See I know some Dutch...) !