Got home yesterday around 1:30pm. The flight was decent. I watched a couple movies and got a 20 minute nap in (nearly a record for me, I can’t really sleep on planes). After getting home and getting unpacked Kelly and I went to the store for some food, made dinner, and then promptly passed out [...]
It’s late here in Amsterdam on our last night. Getting up early tomorrow morning to fly home. Had a great time in Amsterdam.
Yesterday we visited a few churches, the former location of a nunnery, and went to Rembrandt Huis, the former home of Rembrandt for many years here in Amsterdam. The weather was odd, starting [...]
Two and a half hours on the train and we’re now in our hotel in Amsterdam. It’s a bit rainy today, which kinda sucks, but it’s just as charming as I remember it, and we’re in a decent hotel that’s only about a 10 minute walk from the train station (and right along a canal, [...]
It’s been an interesting few days here in Brussels. A couple days ago we took the metro out and visited the amazing Atomium. It was very impressive to see (and go inside of). Looking at it from a distance makes it look like it couldn’t possibly be real, and that it’s some kind of special [...]
Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Brussels, and what a shocker it was. Bruges was so picturesque and charming, and Brussels… well… isn’t. At least, when we first arrived and walked from the train station to our hotel, my reaction was “hmm, perhaps we should have stayed in Bruges”. Being a big city, there is graffiti [...]
After a LONG day of travel, we’ve made it to our hotel in Bruges, Belgium.
The flight leaving PDX was delayed on the tarmac due to some break heating issue, so we sat on the plan for about an additional hour before leaving on our 9 hour 30 minute flight. Once in Amsterdam, we caught a [...]
At the airport. Boarding is about to begin. Thank you M for the ride to the airport, it saved us the mess of mass transit during the May heat wave. Flight leaves at 4pm… then it’s 10 hours to Amsterdam, and then another 5 or 6 hours of train rides until we reach Bruges. More [...]
Since the last recap, Kelly and I got caught up on Lost and Battlestar Galactica (both of which were really good episodes, after waiting through some ‘filler’ episodes recently), and we went to see two movies, Iron Man and In Bruges.
Iron Man was really fantastic. I’d heard good things, but wasn’t expecting it to be [...]
Since my last post of randomness, a few things have happened… most importantly, Kelly had her graduation for her MBA last weekend. The ceremony wasn’t too long, a little over an hour, however due to the order of events, and our shared last name, Kelly was nearly the last person to get presented with her [...]
Wednesday night Kelly and I went to see the great electro-pop band Hot Chip at the Crystal Ballroom. After work we went to Ringlers Pub for some dinner and drinks before the show, where I had a fantastic brew (which I guess is only being poured at Ringlers), called Liquid Friend. It was a lighter [...]
