Bilderberg Parkhotel Rotterdam

... then take the night train to Krakow, several days there to see Auschwitz-Berkinea and the Salt Mines, then Vienna. I'll meet up with Amy and then its to Budapest for the weekend. So in about 10-14 days look for several LARGE posts with tons of pics. Until then, Goodbye Leiden and the friends here, Hello new adventures.

Love, Heather

... across the canal from the LLC a carnival went up in about 18 hours. I went to bed Tuesday night, and literally woke up to a carnival almost completely set up. Roller coaster, carnival rides, carnival games, and everything. Hint #2 was Thursday night. Usually Thursday is the big “party” night in Leiden, because it’s student night at all the bars. But last Thursday was very calm and very quiet, clearly everyone was resting ...

... entered one of the windmills. The windmills were used to pump water in and out of canals. Families would actually live in the windmill. Occasionally the windmill children would get ground to a pulp by the internal mechanisms of the windmills. In 1852 over 10,000 children died from windmill grinding. The dutch have a word for this type of death, "kindersmearen" (think child butter). I found the dutch equivalent to cragslist (http://www ...

... someone had got sick of and decided to dispose of in the water. Rather nice courtyard... probably part of the buildings occupied by the government beaurocracy. The courtyard on the other side was rather nice too. Pity I didn't have time explore it a bit more. I like the way the trams even go trough buidlings. Then back to Rotterdam for the oral part of the exam. Luckily I found the Germans for all you can ...

... spent much of the afternoon packing, and enjoying the sunlight. For the first time all cruise, we had other sea traffic easily visible from the ship. After leaving Boston Harbor, until pulling into Oslo, we saw maybe 4 or 5 other ships larger than fishing trawlers - saw plenty of fishing vessels, but not many larger ships under steam. Between Oslo and Rotterdam, we saw hundreds of other ships. Rotterdam is ...

... to get back to the station and the last train to Athurs home. We encountered some pritty heavy winds on the walk back, quite a feat to stay standing when mildly intoxicated and swaying to our own beat too. While sinking into my seat on the metro we encountered Allon, sitting opposite us smiling. Conversation started and soon he whiped out a small djimbe and started drumming with Paz, passers by were heard to thank them for the beats. Before ...

... intr*duced t* me by a guy I knew. N*w, seven years int* the 21st century, I'm selling 10 Eur* grams *v** and *v** again all day l*ng and l*ving ev**y minute *f it. I spent six m*nths in the Detr*it H*use *f C*rrecti*n in 1966 f*r c*pping a bag *f weed f*r a Detr*it Narc*tics squad und**c*v** agent, and tw*-and-a-half years und** maximum security in the Michigan pris*n system f*r giving tw* j*ints t* an und**c*v** Detr*it p*licew*man. N*w I'm ...

... feeling in my heart. Of all the places on my trip, it's here that i'll probably miss the most. (I should add, on a slightly lighter note, that the strange Michael Jackson mask dude that rocked up yesterday was booted out by Bart and Bjorn today, after engaging in a lenghtly discussion with the bathroom door, and kicking the life out of the porcelain toilet. Evelyn was later seen laughing manically with her sister about the incident. At least he didn't burnt the place down).

... join transform to just copy the suspense data instead of the new data and gather the outputs of the join that need to be retained. At least that's how it was being done in 303. Also some dedup's and sorts that could be removed as well but they shouldn't break anything if kept. Oh well, I'm sure they got it done. Ryan's aunt and uncle (Sue and Mike) have been great. Sue took us out to get some needed supplies/clothing and ...

... 8220;Guys, I'm starting to feel embarrassed, we're outside the train station and I have vomit on my shoes.” Hmm. Fee and I contemplated whether to excuse ourselves to the ladies’ room and force ourselves to vomit as well, but decided against the idea. “Let's just get to the airport.”

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It was not our plan to be spending the early part of August in the Netherlands, actually. It all came about ...