the weekend

This weekend, I was pretty productive.

After out weekly Thursday night LOST-watching party, we looked at lostpedia (the wikipedia for all things LOST related) for almost two hours. After that, Justin and I tried to figure out how to get UPS to deliver his laptop--more than 200 euros and hours waiting later, he finally received the laptop, along with Annie’s macaroni and cheese in combinations of sauce and pasta type that I didn't even know existed. At about 1am, I started to feel another bout of extra-sickiness coming on, so I went home and slept until 3pm.

On Friday, we did not go to the Albert Cuyp market, but Doris (Alex's mom) arrived in town. We went out to delicious Indonesian food at kantjil & de tijger. It was DELICIOUS, and even though it was a Friday night and we didn't have reservations, they sat the 7 of us right away. Score.
We made plans for breakfast the next morning. Doris imported some crumps for us, and we needed coffee to wake up and be on a bus by 8am in order to go on the CIEE day trip to Groningen.
We stopped at this historical museum place for megalithic tombs, aka hunebedden. It was semi-interesting, but mostly I found myself wishing I hadn't left my day-quil on the bus. When we got to the actual city of Groningen, we walked around for a bit, went to this museum with J.W. Waterhouse exhibit, and then climbed a really tall clock tower, called the Martini Tower. It is attached to the St. Martin's church, hence the name.

So we didn't really do much all day, but we had a fantastic buffet dinner, and then took an interesting, long, sleepy bus ride home.

Sunday, I went to the gym and took a kickboxing class. I swear, that no other work out will make you sweat more, or make you as sore the next day. I went on a free pass, and I'll probably join the gym, but I still have to convince myself to pay the bazillion* Euro membership fee.

I am definitely going to Belgium in two weeks, and I'm planning a trip to Paris the weekend of May 14th. Ireland and Spain are next, that and purchasing actual tickets to any of these places.

I need to stop blogging because a)I'm in the computer lab "doing reading," and b)my arms are too tired to keep typing accurately.

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