Savelberg Restaurant Hotel The Hague

... 41 states that make up the Executive Council, so we were able to see their smaller chamber, very nice!

Anyway, that's it for now. Probably no update for another week and a half. We are going to Brussels next Thursday and Friday, and some of us are considering going to Brugge, Belgium on Friday afternoon to Saturday. So look for an update on that sometime around Monday 21 Sept.

And now, its been a long, 18 hour day, so I'm off to bed!

... It was very dangerous but very fun, Brett did really good! We were able to see so much of the city and our tour guide (who had a huge potty mouth) was great we even got to stop off at the pet store so he could get some food for his pet hamster that had no name. We thought he should name him Hamsterdam but he didn't go for it. We ended up riding our bikes for three hours all over Amsterdam before heading back. The couple that we were with were ...

... s Church was cool, and there was a nice pedestrian area, but little else in town. Back to Amsterdam, where I needed to change rooms because of my late decision to stay here an extra day. There were a couple of dudes from Seattle in the room, Will and Brady, and they joked that I was the second Patrick in the room, but that they could at least understand me, unlike the Irish Patrick. I chuckled, thinking that they ...

... When we reached the terminal at 6:45 pm we both took a deep sigh of relief. Since the line was still transferring onto the plane, I decided to take a "short term break" (taking a leak). From the urinal (no joke) I hear a distant voice calling my name. Who the hell knows me in Houston? As the sound waves approached, the voice became more distinct. It was Sarah's! I ran outside the bathroom to see what was ...

... euros a month I saved from last time I looked... (Hellooooooooo dinner!) So, a few good sites I've found: Easystanza.it (Italian version of Easyroommate.com) Home4students.it (Commercially run I think, but I still found some good stuff there) Roma.kijiji.it (It's in the left column, Case in affitto) Well those are the ones I used to finally find something, once I found those I had about 10 good rooms in a day, and it took me ...

... I cross the Schelde-Rhine Canal, there are a lot of Wind farms here. A Wind farm is a group of interconnected wind turbines, just like the one we have in America. They are all along the canal. I guess this is the modern day version of the Windmill. About 61 miles out from Brugge, I go through a tunnel and just on the other side of the tunnel I see a sign that I enter the Nederlands. Weird, no customs or anything to go through, just a ...

... over a sugar cube. They then light the cube on fire and melt the sugar. Then they pour the lit cube into the drink and let if flame and put it out. Then you shoot it. YUCK!! But it was an experience. The other big thing was the red light district. I want to do that to just to say that I did, but decided that it was probably not the smartest of ideas.*hahaha* I was surprise that the prostitutes were not that ugly. I mean there were some. I ...

... be for my drinks. The last leg of this journey is a road trip with a rented car via Mt. Robson, Kamloops to Vancouver. There we have not made any plans yet, we just take it as it comes and will let you know. For now both of us are counting the days at work and it seems that these days are the longest hardest days. but also exciting bacause we are on the road soon with the backpack climbing gear and so... specially looking forward to the customs in Chicago airport... Brrrr

... seemed to be open... hmmm, in fact I haven't actually seen a tram. Granted it was about 8:30 AM but it was Monday morning and the Centraal Station should have been packed with commuters. I finally found a station attendant who informed me that it was a national holiday, Queen's Day, and there were no trams running in the center of town. So there I was with all my bags, tired from the overnight trip, and no ...

on the 24th we leave for sevile but decide we will keep going to the port city to get to morocco, but all hell breaks loose and we spend the next three days heading towards paris where nick and I part ways, he goes back home and I keep going towards Leiden near Amsterdams, in the hopes that I can work at the flying pig in exchange fo a bed and food. I only get there late on the 27th.