  We're all caught up!! Just to get everything squared away, here's a quick synopsis of what's happened since my solo travel week. The week that I got back, mom and dad were here from Tuesday until Thursday! SO MUCH FUN!! They stayed at the little B&B that is here in town. It was really fun having dinner with them and trading stories about European travels. For those of you that don't know them, they have never been to this side of the pond either. They started out in London, saw some theatre in the West End (RAD!! ) and hit some cool English pubs! Then they came to Amsterdam, then met me in Well...I'm sure THAT was the highlight of their trip...from London to....(wait for it).........WELL!!!! Wow, I'm know, it's just so thrilling! Then they continued on to Paris! YAY for mom and dad!! The following weekend, the 17th - 19th, I stayed at the castle. Almost half of the students did.
Our midterms were the following week, we had just gotten back from a full 10 days of travel, everyone was exhausted! (I was warned about this before I came, people said that about half-way through the semester, you just need a break, so you don't burn out. ) We took a days trip on Friday up to Arnhem. There is a national park. You enter, pay a fee, and rent a bike. Then you ride through every type of terrain imaginable; tall think forrests, rolling hills of tall wheatgrass, beachy sand dunes, shorter forrests...10 kilometers later, you arrive at the Kroller-Mueller museum. The museum has an outdoor sculpture garden and a great collection of Van Gogh's work. (Including Cafe de Nuit...SO pretty!!
) The rest of the weekend was nice and relaxing. We had picnics in our dorm, studied for finals, jammed with Emily on her guitar...it was like a big 3 day long sleepover party! YAY The following week is a midterms induced blur, then this past weekend we went to Brugge. I'll tell you about that in a little bit!
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