Greetings from a place where I’m still wearing summer dresses and Birkenstocks! (They’ve already put up Christmas directions in the street…but it’s like 75 degrees every day…)
This past weekend was a long one! I traveled to Amsterdam and Cologne, Germany with Steph! We both loved Amsterdam, even though we didn’t understand the little bit of Dutch we heard. We went on a canal cruise, rented bikes and rode around, went to the flower market, the Heineken Experience, and some other things. I also went back to Amsterdam for a day by myself and saw the Anne Frank house, which was very emotional and utterly amazing. It was surreal to be where she hid with her family.
When we were trying to climb up on the giant letters, I was having trouble fitting between the a and m while Steph was taking pictures…and there was a guy hysterically laughing at me behind her. What can I say, when you lift as much as we do, these quads aren’t fitting in a space that small! (I’ve included a picture for your enjoyment).
We also went to Germany…and understood literally nothing. SO MUCH GERMAN. But nonetheless, we had a good time. Good German food, chocolate, and most importantly…a hockey game. Needless to say I was quite emotional when we stumbled across the local team’s home game. There were two players on opposite teams that both played in Hershey, PA at one point, which is pretty cool (to me anyway).
Now I’m back in Granada enjoying (not really) catching up on all the work I neglected to do. I’m looking forward to taking a day trip with my program this weekend and then relaxing on Sunday. The weekend after that I’ll be headed to….Africa (Morocco) (as long as everything works out). I’m pretty stoked!
I miss you all so very much. I hope you all had a great Halloween and killed it at the costume lift! Hard to believe that I’ll be home in less than two months!
Xoxo, Bixby