Trip Summary

Here's the past few months in a nutshell. By the way, Happy New Year!

New Years -worked. Yay! Good patients. Please pray for a young patient. We stood and toasted with sparkling cider at the nurses station.

And,

because I had just landed, ran home to pick up scrubs and jet off to work -I forgot my wallet at home -was going to order food in, but obviously couldn't

fortunately,

one of the other nurses brought in a bunch of yummy food.

Funny how things like that (homework that needs to be done, supplies/food that is needed...

ALWAYS shows up.

Good work God!)

Christmas Vacation -Odenton/Baltimore, MD

-Pretty Good flights in and out of DC/Reagan Airport

-Too much facebooking...

-BOWLING with all 7 of us

-LOTS of snuggling

-Baking/making messes in the kitchen

-Monopoly with us 5 buddy pals

-More snuggling with mom

-Shopping

-Saw 'How do you know' at the theatre with the sissies

-Slept in

-Dad's church

-Mom's church

-and, of course, CHRISTMAS!

Holland and Belgium 2010 Trip Summary (also in Facebook Notes).

Saturday Nov 20th

1800 -Depart from Dulles Airport

Sunday Nov 21st

0700 -Arrive in Amsterdam

Walked around Amsterdam, a little lost

Found a restaurant we agreed on...

Yummy breakfast and great, strong coffee with a little tea cookie

Searched for a church...ended up in the Red Light District on accident!

Had a beer, soup, and our first AWESOME PASTRIES

Checked into The Backstage Hotel

Took a nap

Went to dinner at Bergermeister

Went to a pub and conversed with some new European friends

Ate cheese, bread, and drank some great Belgian beer

Monday Nov 22nd

Went to a cute dutch bakery

Saw the Van Gogh Museum

Had a fancy lunch with great beer and chocolate mousse for dessert

Took Train to Groningen

Talked to Dutch symphony student on the train

She walked us to our hostel

Stayed at Bud-gett Hostel

Went to Dutch grocery store

Ate dinner at hostel and went to be early

Tuesday November 23rd

Ate breakfast at hostel then went shopping

And found a HEMA (European Target/Ikea like store).

Continued to shop

Found a bank then ate more pastries!

Took the train to Utretcht

Met Kate at the Train station

Settled into her apartment

With Maartin, we all went to a lovely tapas bar by bike

Enjoy conversation, yummy, real Spanish food and wine

Biked to Kate’s favorite bar to sample Belgian’s best brews...So many to choose from

Biked home and slept

Wednesday Nov 24th

Took train to Brussels

Sarah was creeped out by the people in the train station

Went to Belgium police station

Took taxi to hotel

Hotel elevator by our room was noisy, we switched rooms

Mom and Sarah venture out for dinner

Where are all the Women?

Who are all these creepy guys...?

Found a stylish new Asian restaurant, served by Middle Eastern men

The menu was in French or German, we spoke Spanish and tried not to look American

Then we ventured off to find some Belgium bars.

Finally decided on a bar and conversed with funny French workers

Enjoyed Belgian coffee with our beer

Took cab to hotel

Thursday Nov 25th

Enjoyed fancy breakfast

Toured Brussels in a cab, real quick

Conversed with Polish filmmaker

Arrived in Brussels, ate lunch at Greek sandwich shop

Old, hospitable, military man walked us to our hostel

He kept talking about the Belgium army

We enjoyed a few rounds

Mom and I went to a quaint place for dinner

We walked around the city

Mom ‘slept’ at the Bauhaus Hotel while I partied with new worldly friends at the hostel

Friday Nov 26th

Cuddled with mom

Ate breakfast at hotel/hostel pub

We walked around the windmills

Went to Christmas market

Had hot chocolate, a belgian waffle, & shopped

Took train back to Holland

Had to switch trains

Avoided Crazy Amsterdam

Went to ** Hotel ** and took a bath

Ordered yummy duck (fancy food) via lovely room service

Went to bed

Saturday Nov 27th

Returned to the States

See Facebook for more pics

Graduate Studies

Reasons I love school:

-diverse and fun students

-actually having guys in class

-the PROFESSORS!!!

-one prof is an MD

-the content rocks

I am a bit tired, even though I didnt work at the hospital this weekend -but life has enough run around plus homework to keep me busy.

Unfortunately, I overstretched my hip flexor on an 8 mile trek from Cherry Creek down to REI and back. So tomorrow I'm gonna hit pool instead of the run mill.

This weekend I get to go see Mom, Dad, Matt, Dan, and Jan! Woohoo!

P.S. Caroline's wedding is in May and Margaret will be there!!!

Much love.

in need of a secretary

so. i admit that last post was a bit extreme. oh well. anyway, life is good. at my fav coffee shop in denver. fluid coffee bar.

its overcast, i love the stormy weather lately. friday wine nite after chocolate at church rocked. yeah for good girl friends. its great to have a dog around. classes start aug 23.

i feel a bit all over the place, kind of fractionated right now -a billion things to do, yet it is my one day off this week. should relax. atleast its a yoga monday.

life is crazy busy working 2 jobs (hospital and health dept) plus youth group and now grad school. i dont think i can manage all of this and still keep my room clean and remember to check my bank account balance. i guess i am excited but a bit overwhelmed with it all. seems like life already has enough fees and due dates and appointments. but health administration truly is my passion.

does anyone want to be my secretary for life? seriously.

p.s. im not really sure if im doing this blog thing correctly, but then again, i dont really care ;>

Ugh

I am utterly frustrated. I HATE dating. Truly, it sucks.

I love meeting new people and trying new things but in the end, I'm just not happy.

But I guess we need to take into consideration that my perspective is predisposed to a grand dose of cynicism right now because of sleep deprivation.

Dating is a great time to explore, getting to know others and yourself. But in the end, I am disgusted. What is wrong with me that I cannot attract people I who I can share attraction with?

I find myself being unsatisfied and possibly overly critical of men. There have been soo many occasions where some guy finallllllly gets up the courage to pursue me and then after a little bit, I turn him down. And those men I do like, I chase away! This IS a fallen society.

I know God has a bigger plan and patience is of utmost importance right now. But nevertheless, I AM FRUSTRATED.

OK. Enough venting, its yoga-time.