Kerstmis

Christmas was nice considering I was away from all things familiar to me. Christmas Eve was spent in Waalwijk with John and his parents. We ate dinner together, I went to a Catholic Mass all in Dutch and Latin (I pretended like I knew what was going on), and afterward we enjoyed sausage bread, opened presents and played Rumikube until 2am!



Christmas day I took the train back to Hilversum and played some darts with Richard, beat him as usual, and had cheese fondue with my other roommates, Chris and Marlenka. We opened gifts and ended the evening by watching a movie together.


My Hilversum family!!




Second Christmas day I headed to Amsterdam. I made my way through the city to a grocery store that was open and got ingredients to make some peanutbutter bars that my grandma gave me a recipe for. I made the treats at John's apartment and went back into town to meet John and his friends for a Christmas get together. Everyone seemed to enjoy my American treats. We ate Indonesian food and attempted to play Who Wants to be a Millionaire on Wii, but it was too hard to translate the Dutch and it was all about Dutch history so I couldn't contribute much. Instead, we decided to play charades and limited it to the English language. Hahah.

Lindsey flies in tomorrow to celebrate New Years with me in Amsterdam. Can't wait!