tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83348152746384587892024-03-13T17:32:57.047-07:00Brittany BurkhalterSome cool things that maybe, you'd just like to know!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-7140394525516303682015-10-14T08:23:00.003-07:002015-10-14T08:23:47.484-07:00Catch UpHello again!<br />
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So it's been quite a while since I've been on this blog! 2015 has been a crazy, crazy year jammed packed with days of flat out business and then days of down right boring.<br />
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From House Hunters International (I know, crazy right!) to starting my own company (what was I thinking?), working for an Italian Wine Importer in Paris (very fun) to doing "Les Vendanges" (not as fun) in Bordeaux, my head is kind of spinning!<br />
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I will most certainly have to dedicate a blog or two to each of those! But for now, I have what I think is a cold and hopefully not this Parisien flu that is being passed around, so all you are going to get today is a shameless plug for my website: <a href="http://www.marnamaria.com/">www.marnamaria.com</a> !<br />
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There is a super exciting story and history behind this and I cannot wait to share it! But for now if you like, have a look around the site!<br />
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I leave you with this quote and this photo and then I am burying myself in a movie. (Hopefully, Star Wars Episode I!)<br />
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Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-28024723889201155812014-12-04T07:21:00.001-08:002014-12-04T07:21:13.685-08:00Paris RentalHello peeps!<br />
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It's been forever but I have been busy!!!!!! Anyway, thought I'd give a shout out to Paris Rental De Circourt Associates. Yes, I work for them but they are seriously the best rental agency in Paris.<br />
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I can say this unbiasedly as I worked with them while looking for my own apartment a year ago. They were the only people to call me back! Actually, I think that I might have blogged about this at the time! I'll have to go back and check.<br />
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Anyway, check out our website to see some beautiful Paris apartments. Tell your friends if you know of anybody who is moving to Paris for a while, or just give us a few more hits! Actually, our Facebook page also has interesting stuff posted.... I post it ;) and the blog has really good info too!<br />
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So here's to Paris Rental!!!!<br />
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Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-73318582989286042014-08-17T12:48:00.001-07:002014-08-17T12:49:16.313-07:00VLOG!So, I don't blog because I just don't have the time. So how about a vlog?<br />
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BrittBrittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-36253099948945793102014-05-08T16:58:00.001-07:002014-05-08T16:58:31.706-07:00Be humble, count others more significant than yourselves.So, living in Paris is so glamorous... really it's nice.. but at the same time, you do all the things that would normally do.<br />
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For one, thanks to the warm-up run through the beautiful Luxembourg Gardens before the 30 day shred, I bring about half of the gravel from the park into my apartment. That would not be so terrible, expect that fact that I have unsealed hardwood floors with spaces between the boards, and I have to vacuum everything with my handy dandy DustBuster.<br />
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There is a first world probleme if I ever heard one.<br />
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Enter photo of DustBuster and living room.<br />
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Thankfully, whatever the DustBuster fails to pick up, the bottoms of my feet take care of the rest. So about every half hour, I sit, brush/rub/scrap off the crap from my feet, and then vacuum that up. It's a beautiful if not too graphic system really.<br />
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Let's hear about some more first world problems that I exeprienced yesterday.<br />
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(Yesterday was acutally a great day, I have no complaints.)<br />
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HAD to eat this salad because it is exercise time. It was yummy. I am so so hungry these days! I made a vinagrette with fresh lime juice, red wine vinegar, olive oil, sald and pepper. Then dumped in what I had which turned it into a mexican salad..... mâche lettuce (which if you can find it is delicious, Whole Foods I bet!), cherry tomatoes, yellow bell pepper, black beans, corn, and some weird shredded dutch cheese that I had because for some reason the store never has Gruyere. Threw on some baked tortilla that I had cut up too!<br />
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And then I got back to the vacuuming. So honestly, I love vacuuming. It's like one of my favorite things to do, especially here because my god, the dust and dirt is killer. There is way more here than in Hawaii. Speaking of Hawaii, my mom bought an Electrolux mini vacuum last year and it quickly supassed all others in my life and became my best friend. Sadly, my best friend was so introverted, she could only run for about 10 minutes before needing to go home (to the closet) to recharge.<br />
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I was using it so much that my mother was beginning to have a problem with it because everytime there was an actual vacuuming emergency, it would be dead.<br />
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Anyway, so continuing along with housekeeping, we have a dead dustbuster and now my laundry detergent packets exploded in the bag. Yes, here arrives another first world problem I have a washing machine. Which is very cool and very good because really, it acts as an encourager to keep all my stuff clean. But in all honesty, it's amazing to have a washing machine here, at least for people my age.<br />
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So back to the oh so interesting topic of laundry detergent. Perhaps you are firmiliar the degergent i use, they have dishwashing liquid like this, it's liquid, but it's in those thing, dissovible packets.<br />
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Well, this is the second time this is happening to me, one of the packets exploded and in turn, the oozing liquid dissovled roughly 80 percent of all of the other packets leaving me with a bag of detergent.<br />
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I had been using plastic cups to scoop some out but this week, I got smart.<br />
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In true France fashion, and perhaps I haven't talked about this enough but it will become apparent in forthcoming blogs... Evian is the answer for everything.<br />
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Here's how I solved my first world problem.<br />
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Overload please an incredibly messy kitchen full of crap that needs to be washed/put away but... surprise! I live alone and no one is coming over today.<br />
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Mess for the win!<br />
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Anyway, it was really really helpful that the kitchen wa such a mess. That way, when I spill in the coming pictures, everything got a nice coating of purple laundry detergent.<br />
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The drained remants of the disolvable packets. (reflecting off the incredibly shiny yogurt packaging)<br />
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Anyway, that was that day. I actually wrote this several days ago and never posted it.<br />
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So you watch in this order:<br />
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Episode IV<br />
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Bam! It's so right!<br />
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For those of you less informed... I'm talking about Star Wars.Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-71108901897075484202014-05-01T05:19:00.001-07:002014-05-01T05:19:34.017-07:00Since we have such a hope, we are very bold...Now granted, I feel that the title of this post is almost completely wasted on the content because the title is so great! But I read that today and I really liked it and in the spirit of attempting to maybe possibly getting this blog post back on track, thanks of course to the numerous requests... which is very cool, I had to find some motivation. Anyway, read that verse and it compelled me to write.<br />
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I hope you have a hope that makes you very bold.<br />
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So here I am, writing. It's May 1, some sort of holiday in France. Really, not sure what it is for, but they are selling special flowers. I guess in the interest of becoming completely absorbed in the culture, I should read up on the significance of May the 1st, but for now I'll just stay here with you.<br />
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I guess I can also say, thanks to the reminder from Megan DeBoard, it's May/Lei Day. So perhaps a yarn lei should be in the making. We'll see. So much yarn needs to be reserved for my arm knitting projects which shocker.... are also on a "petite pause."<br />
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So this week began Gillian Michael's 30 Day Shred... or whatever it is called. After graciously "borrowing" the dvd from Lauren, thank you AppleTV, and getting over the initial shock of her overly masculine presence, not to mention the size of her arms, I can now completely understand how those people on the Biggest Loser lose weight.<br />
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One, the workout is hard but short. Just when you think you are going to die, it ends.<br />
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Two, you can totally tell when she tells you that she understands that arm circles are hard, that she is used to exercising with people who are easily four times her size or perhaps just grossly out of shape. However, I am not four times her size, and Day 2, I am having trouble with the arm circles. So who am I to judge... I am just as out of shape as the next guy.<br />
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So, Day 2 and sitting to go to the bathroom is almost more painful than it's worth. Just kidding but I am sore!<br />
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Reminiscient of the early days of summer when HBA volleyball would recommence and I would hide in the bathroom to avoid running around the campus. Still to this day I wonder if people ever figured that out.<br />
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But to be honest... and I am being completely serious here, I think that even only after two days... it's really really working! Ahh It's kind of rediculous.<br />
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So, only being on Day 2, I highly recommend this. We'll see though how I feel Days 3 and 4. <br />
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Not too much going on in France. The weather has been almost completely terrible all the time with the short exception of the morning when I am trying to my inverted crunches and bicycle sit-up's that the sun chooses to shine... right.. in...my...eyes.. Super special.<br />
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I really want to post some pictures but the weather is so terrible, any pictures I take look a bit glum. I suppose tomorrow I can capture some of my arm circles... those will be sure to enchant.<br />
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Alright, there is an update... don't go too far... I promise, ha!, in the near future that I will try to make things more exciting. For now, just hope I survive until the next post.<br />
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I'll leave you with this.. Not overly current as it clear from the sunshine but beautiful none the less.<br />
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<br />Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-83149258613852475042014-04-25T10:57:00.000-07:002014-04-25T10:57:17.792-07:00FebruaryAnd on to February!<br />
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The Sutherland's came to visit for a day and a half on their way to Africa. I met them at the airport and stayed the night with them at their hotel.... it was like a mini vacation.<br />
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Then we all came into Paris the next day. They were the first to see my apartment (besides Meg). It was like having my parents here, they bought me groceries, helped me carry them home, took me to lunch, and then it was already time for them to go. I was so so sad! But it was great to see them!<br />
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Bought some flowers! It was the first time I had had enough courage to buy them! Now, I have them all the time. Aren't they beautiful! I had/have no vase so they are in a water carafe that actually has quite a narrow neck.. but it works.<br />
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It was sunny! So being extremely hungover from some dinner party the night before, I bundled up in layers, layers, layers and went to the park to read.<br />
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So usually, I buy flowers on Sunday on my way home from church.<br />
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Walked out onto my steet to find that I was in the middle of a period movie shoot... that was cool!<br />
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Later that night went to the grocery store and saw this beautiful moon!<br />
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Next day decided to go for a run. Key word being "decided" and not "ran." Instead I stayed home and ate ice cream.<br />
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Now it appears we're at Valentine's Day. I've been collecting all of my wine corks. Even for the number of bottles imbibed... still was not enough to complete the heart.<br />
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Then came the four weeks of no water from 8am - 4 pm. Enter washing my face with Evian.<br />
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Made some chocolate covered strawberries.<br />
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Okay so now enters where my school went crazy. They decided to shorten the length of time we had to do all of our classed but still maintain the same amount and workload. One girl in my class described it perfectly. "The best part of my day is the five minutes I have to shower. It's like my break." Basically, I have never done that much work so continously. Everyday... all day, class, work, repeat. This table was a staple in my success. Acutally, if you notice, I was sitting in that red chair so much that I finally had to start sitting on a pillow.<br />
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I also started drinking more vodka tonics.... making that vodka pasta a few weeks earlier really came in handy.<br />
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Actually, now that I think about it... the weeks of endless work actually began in January. I think here you are seeing exam studying. Also, you can see that my Christmas Tree is still "up."<br />
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Here's the table up close. Everyone was getting a little nutty.<br />
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Saturday morning I had had enough, went crazy and made myself a little American breakfast...had no idea what trend this would set! By the way, maple syrup is so so cheap here!<br />
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M&M's from Milds.... and the last Hershey kiss!<br />
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Here's a sample of the wonderful material we had the oppurtunity to study.<br />
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View from my street.<br />
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And we made it! Went to a bar called Havana after our last exam! Not a great picture of anyone! Had to keep it fair! Also, this "cuban bar" had no one Cuban item on the menu!<br />
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Somehow, even though we were done with classes and exams, we were not done with school. At a wine store for yet another project.<br />
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Made a salad.<br />
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My walk to my French School. Finished MBA classes and went right into French!<br />
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Pont Neuf!<br />
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More studying and flowers....<br />
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I think here I am doiny my business plan.<br />
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On my way to present my business plan. Picked up this amazing pastry! Wow! Incredible!<br />
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Finally received the Syrian Tapestry from Meg and hung it up! So cool!<br />
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And scene! Onto March!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-23536727549807112642014-04-24T11:59:00.001-07:002014-04-24T11:59:10.294-07:00JanuarySo i've been complaining to myself for months that Stasha hasn't blogged since December... enter brittanyburkhalter.com, where the last post was from Novermber! So much has gone on since then I can't even begin to catch up!<br />
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People visited, went home for Christmas, school ended...kinda, my friends threw me a birthday party, I took a wine class, I went to the Alps, I started taking French and now I think that about covers it! I a perfect universe. I would go back and cover all those things that I just mentioned! And I really want to but tonight I think that I am going to start small... so here we go. Looking through my pictures... what looks like fun to share....<br />
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Took some pictures of Hawaii before I left...<br />
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Then flew overnight from Hawaii to Seattle where I got to see Max for a few hours. Problem was, I did not sleep on the flight to Seattle, it was a red eye, and then I wanted to hang with Max! I arrived around 5:30am .... yay.. Wating for Max to come get me in a Starbucks... yay... working on a project at 7am!<br />
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So I got the airport super early to see if I could finagle my way out of my crappy seat. I looked terrible becuase I was so tired... like my face was just done and needed rest. But no luck there. Super<br />
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Anyway, now I had a ton of time to kill before my flight.. so and this is not a joke. I went into a corner prayed that God would give me a better seat, but whatever happened happened. Then I proceeded to download as many episodes of Chuck as I could so I would at least have something to do when I could sleep sitting straight up.<br />
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So quick, let's back up a few years. Who knows, 8 years ago, I was flying from Atlanta to Honolulu, and a man cut in front of me in the boarding line and when they scanned his ticket, it beeped and a new ticket came out and the lady said, "Wow, it's your lucky day, you got a new seat." It was up front. Since that day, I had always wondered if I would have gotten that seat had he not cut in front of me. Obviously, probably not and it was just wishful thinking.<br />
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Well anyway, they call our flight and I go to board. I can board early anyway so I go up the line, they scan my boarding pass..... and it beeps. The lady looks at me and says, "Looks like you've got a seat change." It was 5C.<br />
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5 Ficken C on a 10 hour international flight where I need to sleep! God is good!<br />
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Made it back to my place around 11. Had a group project meeting at 4. Accidentally fell asleep again, woke up to Anna or Astrid telling me they were at the store where we were suppossed to be meeting. Excellent.<br />
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Few days later, beautiful morning.<br />
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So January began the next few months of insane work, stress, deadlines... I mean it was crazy. I took a picture one day during a break.<br />
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This is a frozen yogurt place down the street from my place that I am dying to go to.... obviously, it is closed frequently in winter... bummer.<br />
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And then..... I got the flu with a really high fever. Yes!<br />
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I lived on my couch for four days.<br />
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It was not great. I was really really sick.<br />
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However, that did not mean that the projects ceased. About about week about the flu... our deadline was there! Deadline midnight... it's about 11:30 here. Also, just before this picutre, the snickers commercial had never been more true... who knew! A bag a chips literally saved the project.<br />
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And then of course we celebrated that yet another project.. mind you this one was one of the toughest was done! So we celebrated in the appropriate fashion. A delicious meal made by Astrid with champagne at midnight.<br />
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Also can't forget dessert. This is the French Christmas/New Years cake. There is a charm in the middle and I forget what it means if you get the charm.<br />
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Not bad for a January recap! Quick but done!!! On to February!<br />
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<br />Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-3754751742373304742013-11-24T01:09:00.003-08:002013-11-24T01:09:36.053-08:00A DifferenceThe difference between French and American parties..... at French ones, there is no wine left over. France for the win(e)!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-10288512198572488662013-11-18T02:25:00.000-08:002013-11-18T02:25:10.224-08:00Thankful!So, yes, it is not Thanksgiving yet but I did want to say that I am so very thankful for this year. Everything, everyday, is such a blessing and I can't believe that I get to do the things that I do. It's pretty cool and definitely not because of anything that I did. So I am really trying to enjoy and appreciate each day and everything in it.<br />
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Here are some pictures from the end of October. To be honest the weeks are flying by and it is really sad! I had a friend come visit me from Belgium and then my cousin who lives in Beiruit came and visited me the next weekend. I think tere's a lot so I'll probably be in parts.<br />
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Did raclette with a few friends. It was super fun... I like absolutely love racelette. The next morning I swear to you, I woke up with a cheese hangover. Raclette is like backwards fondue.... you grill meat an vegetables on the top of the raclette thing and then you put a slice of raclettecheese in that triangle things you see on my plate, then you put the cheese under the grill to melt, and then you pour it over your vegetables and meat! Oh my God!!!!! So good! I saw a raclette machine at williams and sonoma once and died! So yummy!<br />
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This is for Milda... I went left!<br />
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My walk home from church.... Fall is here!<br />
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Okay, so that night I went home and found that my wood floor had gotten scratched at raclette night by one of my chairs, there was something sharp on the bottom! So, I tried to remove it.... but I couldn;t see it. It was so small. So I put my glasses on. But then, I still couldn't see it. So I put my headlamp on.<br />
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Success!<br />
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And then I ate dinner.... This was less than stellar. Not gonna lie.<br />
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It was a nice day and I had a few hours to kill so I decided to walk. Saw this roof line and thought it was really neat.<br />
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Dad, we ate here once!<br />
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Mon, huge door for you.<br />
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It was so so so windy that day. Look at the water!<br />
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Then I hung out in the Tuilerie Garden. Amazing!<br />
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Then I walked through the garden and fall happened right in front of me.<br />
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So beautiful, right! Kept walking, got back into town. I was trying to go the apple storea and instead ran into Chipotle! I haven't been, thought, not really planning to.<br />
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Super fun! Super long day!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-85966389988988573552013-11-18T01:32:00.000-08:002013-11-18T01:32:00.665-08:00It ArrivesHello all,<br />
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I am literally trying to blog as we speak but I am waiting for picutres to upload so it may be a while. Get excited!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-88569810904574541952013-11-15T22:56:00.001-08:002013-11-15T22:56:47.988-08:00Missed the Metro....<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdTdldEca2OCBEhVjT1S2yNImAJ24HjDs1vmmK72MP_U-rRAjTfJkCdxPG-F9m001ii_oFWgSY7s0ipSj75vigdIL3YahOalSmmtdasdeCq_s5a2zWphVOcxFU1exNXuJ-PoNFUqXBFw/s640/blogger-image-782384971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdTdldEca2OCBEhVjT1S2yNImAJ24HjDs1vmmK72MP_U-rRAjTfJkCdxPG-F9m001ii_oFWgSY7s0ipSj75vigdIL3YahOalSmmtdasdeCq_s5a2zWphVOcxFU1exNXuJ-PoNFUqXBFw/s640/blogger-image-782384971.jpg"></a></div>Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-28391077653927575872013-10-27T02:13:00.002-07:002013-10-27T07:44:55.868-07:00It's All About the Food and a Few Other Things I Guess Too!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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So, as you many know, the title of my program is blah blah blah blah blah, food and wine. So I was thinking, well shoot, I bet a bunch of these people would enjoy drinking wine. And, as you may know, my place is a big larger than the postage stamp I was expecting....<br />
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I'm telling you, I am in go mode these days. You wouldn't recognize me. Anyway, I thought that it would be fun to continue my weekly happy hour in France, however, I didn't call it Happy Hour mostly because here, Happy Hour is completely different. It is like, the total opposite actually. So for the US, Happy Hour is when bars and restaurants lower their prices so people come at weird times, right. Well, here, they do happy hour during peak hours. Like Happy Hour is 7-11pm. Not cocktail hour. So I guess technically, since we were eating dinner and not having cocktails, I unintentionally did French Happy Hour. Oh boy. Anway, that was a fun short for you.</div>
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Okay, not anywhere that severe but it was a bit reminiscent. Also reminiscent of The Table was my grand idea to make something that 1. I have never made before, and 2. Make something that I have never really eaten before. So yeah, I went for the short ribs.... I just couldn't resist that picture!</div>
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1. Everyone, or at least a lot of people, dream of moving to france, buying fresh vegetables from the market, so on and so forth. </div>
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2. I have been living in Kailua which while great, islocated on O`ahu, an island, with very limited anything. So for example, if I wanted to make short ribs in Kailua, it would depend on if they actaully existed at the moment on the island. Also, there is no such thing as a butcher in Hawaii. The luxury of going to the butcher and asking/ordering whatever, the kind of meat I want, doesn't really exist. </div>
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Alright... so first task on the list.... buy short ribs. Now, how do you say short ribs in French? Anyone, anyone? Yeah, exactly. </div>
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So here, their cuts of meat are totally different. Like the place on the animal where they cut is completely different. So finding equivalent meat cuttings is sometimes difficult. I spent almost an hour scowering the internet looking for how the heck one would say short ribs! Finally, Google Books saved my life by letting me (illegally?) read a short section of Julia Child's, The Art of French Cooking. </div>
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Next step... find them! So I was supposed to be waiting for my electrician becuase I hadn't had light in my bedroom for almost two weeks, but the Plat de Cotes were calling me to find them. I ventured out, going right at my mom's suggestion, and after three butchers, I found them!</div>
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Found them meaning I awkwardly walking into the butcher shop, cutting in front of a zillion people to glance into the meat cases. Anyway, finally, it was my turn, I ordered the Plat de Cotes, in kilos which was another feat, (no amount of Grey's Anatomy or weighing myself at my dad's office will ever get me to understand kilograms) and then also asked him to cut them into 5cm pieces. Another conversion that I was quite proud of. </div>
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Well, I paid, they bagged them up, and I walked out of that place like a smiling idiot. I was literally drooling I was so happy! I had just met my sterotype and had bought fricken meat from a butcher in France to have people come over to my appartment in Paris. Really, not trying to rub it in at all, just trying to convey the emotion.... I was pretty stoked. </div>
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Step One: Season and brown. Let me say something about my stove/oven combo. The thing gets freakin hot. Like I can boil water in less than a minute. First time I have ever been able to brown meat like I wanted.<br />
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Let's talk about this next picture. Blurry! Surprise, hadn't eaten that day and my hands looked like I had just seen a ghost and went skydiving at the same time. Could not keep them still!<br />
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This does not look atll that appetizing! But it's just carrots and celery and onions.<br />
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Carrots plus celery plus onions plus one bottle of red wine plus the short ribs. All in the giant pot.<br />
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Plus herbs plus some beef broth. Boil and bake!<br />
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Which was actually terrifying and I got a really bad burn on my thumb and forefinger (they blistered! first time!) because I was being stupid. While the stove is super hot, the oven is less amazing. One, it doesn't have any temperature guage, it's old so it just has numbers one through nine. What I didn't mention earlier was that after buying the short ribs, I once again neglected my call to wait for the electrician and ventured out looking for an oven thermometer. I went to SIX places, it took the whole day and nothing. I was so frustrated.<br />
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Anyway, my burn and the oven. Obviously, the 5 kg of short ribs with wine and broth in a cast iron pot is extremely heavy. Well, when i put it in the oven who's temperature I was guessing was around 350, the rack slipped out of it slots and the whole thing fell on the bottom of the oven. Nothing really spilled too much, just some liquid, but obviously, I had to take it out and rearrange things.<br />
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So, this is the dumb part and I have kinda done this before and told myself to never do it again. Well, I did it again. NEVER USE A WET DISHTOWEL TO TAKE THINGS OUT OF THE OVEN. SO DUMB! Anyway, the water in the dishtowel super heated and then in turned burned two of my right fingers. Ahhh it hurt!<br />
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But the important part was that I rescued the food, right! I hate dropping food! Such a waste. Anyway, I macgyvered the oven to that I could get the pot to stay eleveated, and left it to cook!<br />
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I tried one around midnight, I was pretty good, but a little fatty, something I knew would be true but it still made me nervous. The best thing was that they were tender. So I was winning that battle.<br />
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The next day, Sunday, the big day I got nervous. (This is so The Table mentality.) So what does one do, she goes and stalks another butcher.<br />
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I won't admit to it, but maybe just maybe, I bought a backup piece of meat. What?! I had to have something to pair with the big red that was being brought!<br />
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So after the backup meat, it had nothing to do. So I was like hmmm. I promised American food, lets go check out the American grocery store. The metro that I would ride to get there was down so I walked.<br />
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I get to the American market and what is the first thing I find! Ahhhhh! Kill me now!<br />
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Hung out in the American store for a while trying to decide which enourmously overpriced American food items I wanted. Finally, settled on Reece's Peanut Butter cups, the oven thermometer, and then I saw it! Grits and cheddar cheese! Way better than my inital plan of mashed potatoes for a side dish. (Also a way better idea because I wasn't so sure about the milk and cream in my fridge because when I finished cooking the short ribs the night before, I did let them cool a while, but I had to put them in the fridge before I went to sleep. The heat from that had kinda hmmm lowered the temp of my fridge!)<br />
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Cheddar Grits it was going to be!<br />
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So all this and I am sorry to say that I don't have any pictures of the final products, the people, the food, the wine, nothing. But I can say that is because we had so much fun, who needed a camera. But really, everyone brought something and I was like a well oiled machine.<br />
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Listen to this meal!<br />
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Start with a Sancerre white wine (which I had never had but had been dying to try). Add cheese from a far off region of France that someone's mom brought while visiting for the weekend. Add some rolled procuitto and artisan french bread. That was round one.<br />
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Round two, short ribs, cheddar grits and a big, delicious Tuscan red.<br />
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Then finished with Apple (Crack) Cake. Seriously! The night didn't suck.<br />
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And that was Sunday night. Not bad at all!<br />
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A sunny day!<br />
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A lady wearing a cat skirt. Totally could be Lauren, right.<br />
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This place needs some decorations like you wouldn't believe. A decoration that is not my mess would be nice.<br />
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I went and read for a little while in the park.<br />
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And then I got hungry... so I made soup. I had one onion left over from the night before and that terrible Diane de Poiters wine.<br />
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Guess what, I found what Diane de Poitiers wine should be used for.<br />
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And then I had to move everthing out of my bedroom to the living room because the painters were coming to fix the plaster.<br />
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See ya!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-16774489760454028072013-10-24T06:02:00.000-07:002013-10-24T06:02:59.467-07:00The Present<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And all the way up until now!<br />
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Lauren and I went to the Pompidou. Lauren looked a really weird art and after about five minutes I commenced with a french prayer walk. I guess you could then call it the Pompidieu. Ha ha ha. Okay, not funny. Then I found this for my dad.<br />
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But, the view from the Pompidou was really amazing! I had never been and when you are on the top floors, you can really see all of Paris.<br />
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Then Lauren left and now you are stuck looking at pictures of just me. So then came the days when it was freezing and I had no heat or hot water. Story of the Slumlord still to come. It was funny too, because as soon as I got heat and hot water, the temperature here shot up into the 60's and 70's. Of course it did!<br />
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Anyway, there is me writing by candlelight... kinda. Mostly, I was trying to keep my hands warm.<br />
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And here's what I ate for dinner. It was delicious! So, there is a staple here called lardons. Which we don't really have them in the US. You can sometimes find it at really high end grocery stores, or you can get a slab of bacon that's invited and that is not sliced and cut it yourself, but essentially, it's huge bacon pieces. Yes!<br />
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Here I am facebook chatting... it's like 7th grade is happening all over again. Omg Jessica just blocked Kim and Justin Teruya just messaged me! (Yes, these things really happened, except for this time, I have not unplugged the house phone line to go on AOL.)<br />
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And back to what I do all the time here...<br />
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My street. Oh my god, this night was so amazing! The weather has been killer after that 7 day freeze. So so so nice!<br />
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More of the gardens.<br />
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This is the view from my apartment! So freaking cool! Come visit!<br />
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Started with taking a field trip to the champagne region with my class.<br />
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We saw this classic car that I think my father has been telling me about for the last 24 years. Glad to finally put a thing with name.<br />
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Then we walked down this huge hallway/staircase to visit the crown jewels, also known as Pommery Champagne. I was freaking out becuase I couldn't believe this was part of a school assingment. What the!<br />
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Okay, you totally cannot tell what this is so it bring up two points. 1. Q. What is it? A. It's art. 2. What is it? It's the bottom of wine bottles that have been painted on so when light is shown through them it projects the painings.... aka art.<br />
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There, now you can kinda see. It was actually really cool!<br />
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And then of course me. I thought this was so clever. Most people did but apparently, it's a little weird to associate my name with a place. But I really like it, I think it's pretty!<br />
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And then of course you have to have a man pouring 30 glasses of champagne in a row.... duh!<br />
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Still on our field trip, but back on the bus.... just driving through FREAKING CHAMPAGNE FIELDS.<br />
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Went to a family owned champagne house. This is like the worst picture every but this was a really cool champagne glass. I really wanted to steal it and I was this close, but... I didn't. Should have, could have, would have... didn't.<br />
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Next and finally.. omg it was the longest day every, we went to Moet & Chandon. Which was really cool. If you ask me, it's like the popular kids of champagnes, the ones that have all the cool clothes and totally missed their awkward stage. Case in point, this awesome chandelier made out of champagne glasses.<br />
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And than was the end of the field trip. Which was great. It was really good because they crammed our whole class of people who didn't know each other and shipped them away for a day and we all came back friends.<br />
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That night I was supposed to move into my appartment but my landlady wasn't ready for me I spent another night at Chez Bruno.. did I ever tell you about him. If someone comments and reminds me I will, otherwise, you can google Bruno Roland. I rented his apartment for a week. He likes to surf. Anyway, the next day, I was to get the keys to my appartment in the morning. Totally didn't happen that way, but like everything in this stage of my life, it is not going according to my plan but to someone else's and that is okay.<br />
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So Lauren is boozing it up in Germany, I boozed it up the day before in France, and now, it is my turn to move my stuff and Lauren's stuff from the storage unit to my 5th floor apartment with no elevator.<br />
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Excellent!<br />
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Here it is in the storage unit, very neat. (I had just repacked everything that morning).<br />
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And here it is on the handy cart that the storage unit has for your use.<br />
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So long story short, I ask the guy working at the storage unit to call a taxi. World's Quietest Man Ever Award Right Here. I heard him say not one thing on the phone but after about 10 minutes he hands me a sticky note and whispers to me that the taxi is on it's way.<br />
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Taxi guy helps me load... we head off... I'm trying to wrap my head around getting all my stuff up 5 flights of stairs.... and then bam! We pull up to my appartment.<br />
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Taxi guy looks at me and says, "You're not carrying that up the stairs, I'll do it for you."<br />
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Was he Jesus? And then he did! I literally had no clue what to say! I gave him 10 euros because I didn't know what else to do.<br />
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Seriously, seriously!<br />
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And then still, my appartment wasn't ready, the cleaning lady had just gotten started. No problem, I was just stoked that everything was up those stairs! Anyway, I left, came back, got locked out... and then fianlly got back in!<br />
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Live next to this. The Pantheon. Actually, just found out today that this is where all the famous french writers are buried.<br />
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Obligatory trip to IKEA. Wouldn't these be perfect for The Table!<br />
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And then here is me waiting for some friends at the opera house.<br />
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And then here I am eating lunch and doing school work! Get ready for lots of this same picture, just with a change of food.<br />
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View from my window.<br />
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View of the park.<br />
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More park.<br />
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Waiting for another friend... this time I was actually in the wrong place but so worth it. So pretty!<br />
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Omg this is the longest blog post ever! The next day I had some time to kill before a french test so I went to hang out at the Eiffel Tower. Freak!<br />
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And I ate the world's largest sandwich. Here I am trying to show you that the sandwich was the lenght of my forearm. It was massive!<br />
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And of course, even take ways lunch comes in three parts, sandwich, drink, dessert.<br />
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Went to French then I ate dinner. Which doesn't look that great. It tasted great...<br />
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I didn't do this long enough...<br />
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And the chicken, while beautiful... was not fully cooked.<br />
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But hey, who needs to know that, right?<br />
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Next day. Tuesday because it's my day off... I took yet another obligatory trio to IKEA. I had no dresser in my place and I am trying to move on from "the floor is the largest shelf in the house," method, so I need to buy one. Savior Inma came with me and helped me carry it back!<br />
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And then I put it together in a super rush because I had people coming over to dinner and clothes still everywhere!<br />
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Dinner with friends... this one guy made this traditional French dessert, île flottant. It was amazing, and the funny thing was, everyone that I told about this the next day, like, freaked out when I said that I had eaten île flottant. Apparently, it's the thing to eat!<br />
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Days later... Lauren came back from Germany and brought me a giant kinder egg. I have never had one but I have always wanted one so I was pumped to start off my kinder egg journey with the maxi size!<br />
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Next day, my class took a field trip to a wine bar in Paris. No words.<br />
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And then I came home and went to dinner with Lauren...<br />
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Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-47749148396431245782013-10-22T07:07:00.000-07:002013-10-22T07:07:06.275-07:00La La LandBasically my life these days consists of eating large amounts of crackers and Caprice des Dieux, attempting to learn french, and reading "Harvard Business Cases." I have also added to that a small 10 euro bag of mini Reeces peanut butter cups which I have almost completely devoured. The only saving grace there was that thankfully, some friends ate some too. But I think I may cave and buy another bag... they are just so good!<br />
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So basically, I currently live in La La Land. (And I don't mean L.A.) I am like on crack. Whoever said the Lord will provide beyond what we could ever imagine wasn't kidding. I'm like a drooling idiot constantly... the other day I caught myself staring at the rain because it was just, "so beautiful."<br />
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For those of you in the know... do you remember Anna Dugger at her wedding? I mean she looked high the entire time. That is basically me.<br />
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Anyway... basically all is well and that is so cool! I have been trying to take a least a picture every day and I have a bunch of old ones.... enjoy! When I say a bunch.... there is a lot! I'll do a few days at a time!<br />
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Here is Bilda in France!<br />
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Up the Eiffel Tower.. totally NOT scary! Awesome view!<br />
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Then we all (Bilda, Lauren, and me) went to Lyon where we proceeded to try all of Paul Bocuse's restaurants. We hit two but we ate at one twice! So good!<br />
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Lauren discovered her favorite place in the world... the park in Lyon. That plus her bike, she nearly died she was so happy. Insert Anna Dugger face here.<br />
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Then Lauren and I went to Geneva. Do you remember how Lauren kept telling me that I looked like I had been stabbed because my face always looked terrible. (I was so stressed out!) She kept taking pictures of me when I wasn't looking and then would show them to me as proof. Here is an example.<br />
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Here is Lauren. This photo, she has no idea that I am taking it. She is just ALWAYS smiling. Notice the difference. Ha!<br />
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OMG Lake Geneva was amazing! I mean I think I died here and currently I am merely a reincarnation!<br />
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So freaking pretty. So what did we do... we got on a boat! Sat up on top with wine. Omg!<br />
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It was cold. Lauren took pictures of us bundled and we look like homeless people.<br />
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Inside of the ship.<br />
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A sign.<br />
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A clock lawn creation that everyone in Geneva was taking pictures of so I did to. <br />
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Back in France, Lauren and I went to dinner at my favorite place.... The Buca di Beppo of France! La Piazza Papa!<br />
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OMG so pumped! so happy and omg so hungry! So hungry!<br />
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So to now to unconfuse everyone.... I landed in Paris, stayed for a few days, then headed up to Amsterdam, then we hit Brussels, and then we came back to Paris.<br />
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We had a few days to kill before my parents came. Ironically, made dad had a conference in Lyon the week before I was supposed to start school so it worked out perfectly that I could see and hang out with them on the first half of their trip!<br />
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The downside of this is that I took like no pictures because Milds was there and she took them all. If you are her facebook friend, you know what I am talking about. But I'll see what I have.<br />
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So Bilda came and I was so excited to see them! The plan was to stay in Paris for a few days and then head down to Lyon, stopping in places along the way. Well, we did a ton.<br />
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The first day, like an hour after they got here, we climbed the Eifel Tower! I have never done that. Actually, I have always been terrified to do it! It was not scary at all which was cool and the view was awesome.<br />
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We did Versailles (my like 5th time) on a golf cart (that was cool)..<br />
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You know what, I could keep recapping you on this or just catch up. Here's the deal.<br />
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I have an apartment. I love it, it's amazing! Really, amazing! I should post pictures.. but currently, I have no heat, no hot water, and no electricity in my bedroom. I'm fricken freezing. So how does one cope?<br />
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And I proceed to light them everywhere. People keep telling me it's a fire hazard. I'm having a freezing hazard! Also, they look pretty!<br />
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I have had no all the mentioned about for about a week now. My slumlord doesn't seem to care. Hopefully it will get fixed soon. The electrician called me today but I had no clue what he said, so he's coming tonight or tomorrow at some point... when I wont be here.... All i can say is that is am sure that it will get fixed eventually!<br />
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But really, it is so amazing here! I am just loving it!<br />
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And my dinner! What a terrible picture. My favorite part about eating it was that it was hot. I love all things hot. </div>
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Found this draft! So to finish out Amsterdam... this is before Brussels, here is the end of the story. To recap you, we went for three days, the first day we did the Anne Frank Museum and the Cocktail Cruise. </div>
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Anyway, here is the massive hotel room that we stayed it. It was massive! This place also had scalding hot water, maybe it's a European thing. Lauren got burned, complained to me, I had no sympathy, I was like whatever, then I took a shower and karma won. Karma burns!</div>
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AmsterdamDamPlatz - okay, I made that name up but I bet my life on it that it's close to what it's really called.<br />
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So I can't remember exactly what we were doing, oh wait! I remember, we had to check out of the hotel so we went the train station to store our bags, as soon as we did that, Lauren fell into one of her, OMG I NEED FOOD RIGHT NOW OR I WILL DIE modes. So we went to find somewhere to eat. I was trying to hold out for a place because I wanted to eat on the canal! Duh!!!<br />
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Lauren finally got a Heineken. I did too. Can you see the canal?<br />
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Omg so I got this tandoori chicken salad which like the lunch in Burges, changed my life! Thinking about this now, I should really go eat a good meal because I'm in freaking Paris and have been essentially eating out of a vending machine lately. Anyway, the salad was amazing.<br />
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Really nice view. We then got attacked by a bee... this is also a theme on this trip. I am not sure why, but at the end of like every meal, we get attacked by bees.<br />
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I really enjoyed the museum and that was great because I was not all that excited going into it.<br />
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After the museum, we had some time to kill before our train to Brussels. I found this note on a shop that I thought was funny. Imagine if all stores ran like this!<br />
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We grabbed a drink at a cafe and then headed for the train station. Lauren had another FEED ME moment so she bought some bread which made her happy.<br />
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She then proceeded to add the three day old, refrigerated cheese to the mix.<br />
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In her words.... delicious! In my words.... yuck!<br />
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Anyway, so fun. Off the Brussels we went! But you already knew that!<br />
<br />Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-52574128614331830222013-10-05T05:59:00.000-07:002013-10-05T05:59:13.700-07:00Omg! Really!Omg I am so sorry, has it really been almost a month! Wow.... anyway, well obviously I am not still in Amsterdam. There is not THAT much to see. I have so much to say and really no time to write it all down, but maybe one day I will because of course all of my stories are AMAZING! Ha, right, but they are also very long.<br />
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After The Netherlands, Lauren and I went to say with my good friend Celia in Brussels. Love Celia, love Brussels, we had a great time. So much so, that we stayed for a week. Celia was nice enough to let us keep staying at her place which was great because still, I had no apartment.<br />
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We hung out in Brussels, mingled or at least tried to with some people from the European Commission, discovered Rose Pamplemousse (omg!), ate too many waffles (for you Table people, it was amazing!), ate a lot of fries, went to Bruges and had the most amazing lunch (like top 10), ate at Le Pain Quotidien two days in a row (the have a few in the US, if you live near one, go!), went to a costume party that turned out to not really be a costume party (good thing that at the last minute Lauren decided to take off her eyeliner mustache), talked to Celia's English class about America......wow, wow, wow so many things.<br />
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But it was finally time to go! We took a bus back to Paris because it was wayy cheaper than a last minute train ticket. It was also an endlessly longer trip complete with a crazy man, Russians attached at the lips, a dying bird, and no bathroom, all on a 5.5 hour bus ride that was supposedly 3.5 hours however they set the clock back one hour to make you think that you are more on time than you actually are. I will take the train next time thank you. Lauren, fresh from China, had absolutely no problem and took a 12 hour bus ride to Lauren the next week, but that's a spoiler.<br />
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So this begins the part of our trip called, "Nowhere to Stay." Basically, we start the day with no home and hope that by the end of the day we have found somewhere to stay that night.<br />
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So back in Paris to find a home. I will spare you all the details, but two things. My god finding a place was/is hard work. And just like me to prefer the more challenging path, I have never looked for an apartment before, I have always lived with someone else, so why not try to do it in one of the most competitive markets in a language that I semi speak. Excellent.<br />
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So currently, in this part of the story, we are at Chez Anita. A possible German woman who's studio we rented for a few days. Cute, not bad location and complete with only hot water. Let's look at that. I have never been burned more times than I have been in the last month but French shower water. My god it scalds. By far the hottest tap water I have ever encountered. But usually, there is some extremely cold water to counteract and to osmosisize it to lukewarm. However, Chez Anita was having a plumbing problem and we only had hot water. Enter in large white bowl from the kitchen filled with cold water, a shower turned on drip and my green loofah to complete the sponge bath.<br />
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It was different. It also made it challenging to wash your hair which Lauren and I had waited to do and let me spare you details, but the water here is very drying. So you don't want to go too many days without washing your hair. Wait, thinking back to what I just said.... can water be drying? Is this the Tuxedo?<br />
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Okay, stay tuned for more.... I have internet consistently now so I can blog!<br />
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A Demain!<br />
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Then I found this purple Volkswagen and just HAD to take a picture.!<br />
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First ugg boot sighting in Europe!<br />
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After that we walked around a bit, went shopping! We both got new boots and omg let me tell you, if you are tall, The Netherlands are the place to buy pants! I bought some postcards, and then headed back to Amsterdam Dam to catch a tram back to our hotel because we had plans for later that night but needed a break.<br />
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Well let's start by saying how nice the people in Amsterdam were. This actually happened to us twice. So obviously, everything is in Dutch. But everyone speaks English because who besides the Dutch and half of Belgium speak Dutch, right?<br />
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Also, this is my new favorite thing. It's new in Europe so they have been giving samples. It's sparkling iced tea. It kinda tastes like beer.... i just love it!<br />
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So Lauren has two modes.... hungry and not hungry. There is no in between. When she gets hungry she has to eat immediately. It's almost savage like. Anyway, she had a hunger attack at this cafe so we ate. She obsessed with salads as there is no fresh lettuce or goat cheese in china. So she had a salad. I had a carpaccio sandwich. It was massive!<br />
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And the massive room!<br />
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So that morning I had woken up really early and was reading about what to do in Amsterdam. One of the things was to take a canal cruise. They said don't be swayed by the touristy aspect, that they are great. So I looked and I found the perfect thing, a cocktail cruise! Ha! It was 2 hours, 2 cocktails, and appetizers with a tour guide. Great!<br />
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Okay, this is a terrible picture but here is what it is.One cool way to live in Amsterdam is on a houseboat on the canal. They can be incredibly expensive because you one have to pay for the mooring space and then usually your houseboat is out of this world fancy. Anyway in Amsterdam, people believe at night you should always leave your curtains open because if you close them, you are saying you have something to hide. Strange, but awesome for use because we got to see into everyone's fancy house boats!<br />
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We passed the Anne Frank House.<br />
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The canal bridges are all lines with lights so you can see the tunnels. So pretty!<br />
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Also, there are the tunnels that our massive boat goes through!<br />
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Lauren is touching the wall!<br />
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So that cruise was so so fun! And it was two hours which was really cool. I have been looking for Seine cruises in Paris and nothing compares!<br />
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Anyway, after that we headed back home and had our second encounter with a friendly Dutchman. The centreplatznespac in Amsterdam Dam was undergoing some night construction. So basically a maze had been created to get the tram for us. We were confused for about 2 seconds when a random Dutch guy comes up to us, says go this way, then this way, then this way, and then he just disappeared! What the heck? Well, we followed what he said and ended up at our tram stop!<br />
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So that was our first day in Amsterdam! We did so much! More to come!<br />
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<br />Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-42944698607208883532013-09-11T03:16:00.000-07:002013-09-11T03:16:02.950-07:00AmsterdamHaveyoueverseenawordspelledlikethis? Welcome to Dutch 101. Or my other favorite example, the word penmanship,nor as they say it in Dutch, shipenman. Or so it seems, right. I have thought this in the past and it was really confirmed while I've been in Amsterdam... Is that actually a real language? Because I am not trying to be mean, but it sounds fake. if you have never heard Dutch, you must YouTube right now!<br />
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Let's discuss Amsterdam and my sleeping habits to begin. First, I no longer sleep. Greys and Twilight must have planted this idea that sleep is not a real thing because I no longer do it or need it. Usually, I am a solid 8 hour person, as of late, I sleep 5 or maybe 6 and I'm done. Also, I don't really drink that much water and so I nevere pee. I think maybe I am just finally becoming a true Burkhalter. Dry skin included.</div>
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Okay, so back o Amsterdam. First of all, come here! It's stunning, absolutely gorgeous. The people are rediculouly nice, they all speak English perfectly, which makes me feel like me pretend Dutch is not far from the truth, and this is definitely the place for someone with a 32 in inseam and size 40 feet. In Hawaii, when you go to try on shoes, the sample size is usually s 6 or 7. Here. It's a 9.5.... Just my size! Went to buy pants yesterday, and they had a size 29x32. Who has that?!</div>
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The main square here is called Amsterdam Dam or just Dam. I prefer to say Amsterdam Dam. This is just one of the many, many fun words to say. To be honest, they all sound funny.</div>
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So the only train that we could get on from Paris left at 7pm and arrived in Amsterdam at 10:30pm. I was worried that wasn't going to be safe. It was just the opposite. I have no clue what sort of timetable these people operate on, but things were in full swing at 10:30 at night. The only thing missing was the sun. After a small bit of confusion, we found some wifi, found out hotel, yes we should have probably looked up where the hotel was before we got there, we hopped on a tram and rode to muslim neighborhood.<br />
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Really quick, this is finally a picture of the storage unit. Here we are packing for Amsterdam.<br />
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Okay, so we make it to the hotel in Amsterdam which is on the outskirts of the city, but at the last minute, it was the cheapest one and it didn't have bedbugs like the hostel that I initally booked that Lauren nixed. Probably a wise decision. It was a Christian hostel in the red light district. For 20 bucks more, we got this hotel. Which turned out to be amazing. Usually, rooms in europe are tiny. We had the worlds largest room, like the size of my living room in Hawaii for those of you who know and it was on the top floor overlooking the city! Way cool!<br />
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So we stayed there. Immediately, we were both so tired and went to sleep. BTW this is a very common theme for us.<br />
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The next morning, we woke up, walked through what turned out to be a very pleasant neighborhood and headed for AmsterdamDam. First question, what are the dutch known for? Clogs, windmills, and cheese!<br />
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So we found some cheese!<br />
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So Amsterdam is stunningly beautiful. Amazing.<br />
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Our next stop was to the Anne Frank House. So we walked there. It was stunning. Saw this on the way.<br />
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So this is the outside of the Anne Frank House. You can wait in line forever or you can just by your tickets online. We did that. We were a bit early so we went to a canalside cafe to get a coffee.<br />
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Here's the cafe. What a terrible view.<br />
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So, if you look closely, you can see a boat is coming under the bridge. The boats are huge and the canals are so so narrow. You'll see what I mean later.<br />
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Lauren disapproves of something. We were so tired here. We were sitting in the shade of a lamp post in hopes of getting some respite from the sun.<br />
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The sun in all its glory.<br />
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I am currently and still reading 1984.<br />
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This was our hotel room. It was awesome!<br />
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One big one being my memory on iPad is full of Grey's Anatomy, there is no room to upload any pictures from my camera. So I now have to post pictures to my blog from my phone, and then go add the comments on iPad. But that's okay, it keeps it interesting. It's also teaching to me type on iPad. And you thought that the typos were bad before!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So today, I am actually in Amsterdam but I can't show you my pictures from Amstedam for reasons I mentioned above and I have some pictures from the last few days in France. So Amsterdam update tomorrow and France update now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So, Monday was still more apartment hunting. An oh, it was a thousand degrees outside. Like surface of the sun hot. I have never felt the energy of the sun until yesterday. Thank god that my shirt was quick dry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3dEslbmfv6fnXhp8XL2-FfhrCEZnTbma1HZYgLiWxEPA4QAQHfbilUNRp09KJldUzfIXwM-qSfe35URy1VHeKU-jdUk7l9yo1OaKPt_6jwVI2lPxVg9R57gosJRYkEu-gBdvn1x-3C4/s640/blogger-image-1047515855.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGhyphenhyphenQkMruNU5xlDM63pYpOdguzWePCi-ablrRKx_IfSmlGFp8kAaDrvXxrMm_cAtEGZta5F-ynymyDeKKndmalqrPaG8O5pupTkQUHgJwLuZINtUOWdZrv2rjjxntX3CuVRCGY2DKhnLo/s640/blogger-image--1507642522.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGhyphenhyphenQkMruNU5xlDM63pYpOdguzWePCi-ablrRKx_IfSmlGFp8kAaDrvXxrMm_cAtEGZta5F-ynymyDeKKndmalqrPaG8O5pupTkQUHgJwLuZINtUOWdZrv2rjjxntX3CuVRCGY2DKhnLo/s640/blogger-image--1507642522.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Walking around, in the heat, we came across this hotel and bar. I should stay here or at least imbibe something he sometime. How appropriate, right? Maybe we can come celebrate here when I finally find a place to live.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3dEslbmfv6fnXhp8XL2-FfhrCEZnTbma1HZYgLiWxEPA4QAQHfbilUNRp09KJldUzfIXwM-qSfe35URy1VHeKU-jdUk7l9yo1OaKPt_6jwVI2lPxVg9R57gosJRYkEu-gBdvn1x-3C4/s640/blogger-image-1047515855.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These pictures are a bit out of order, it was the best I could do, but here is the view from our hotel room. I randomly choose a hotel somewhere in Paris because it was cheap and I needed it for my visa, but then I forgot to cancel it so we actually stayed there, which turned out to be the cutest neighborhood!</div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqGsdEj0cUfQMxVExzBpwFqZNWl4oDis3bn1OzrkAJwRKDor55KDAmsrf27JrlFKp-cbIiTiFZF_esnNF3F-2UdwpOyc-oqIbMoQjzaj1dvAV9zJx9PiFjzq_GvBclUojE-WO_pHqUyo/s640/blogger-image-1443968270.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Saw this blue door and blue car. It needed to be captured for color alliteration or assonance sake.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqGsdEj0cUfQMxVExzBpwFqZNWl4oDis3bn1OzrkAJwRKDor55KDAmsrf27JrlFKp-cbIiTiFZF_esnNF3F-2UdwpOyc-oqIbMoQjzaj1dvAV9zJx9PiFjzq_GvBclUojE-WO_pHqUyo/s640/blogger-image-1443968270.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDtha4sve1vA8g4MKzlNb0hZcG8UgFM3RDrpSzkJKeu67_cQQc89vRKsMke7Nbg50Ke1gbA8f0MKsw30inRDbfjZPXIr9kXVDq1RiZkHvfBHYnVgpfai3wg3aOmJJ1n1bvUhyphenhyphenCvQAOtk/s640/blogger-image--1644622104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDtha4sve1vA8g4MKzlNb0hZcG8UgFM3RDrpSzkJKeu67_cQQc89vRKsMke7Nbg50Ke1gbA8f0MKsw30inRDbfjZPXIr9kXVDq1RiZkHvfBHYnVgpfai3wg3aOmJJ1n1bvUhyphenhyphenCvQAOtk/s640/blogger-image--1644622104.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Opp, here's another picture of my bar. Told you, out of order.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDtha4sve1vA8g4MKzlNb0hZcG8UgFM3RDrpSzkJKeu67_cQQc89vRKsMke7Nbg50Ke1gbA8f0MKsw30inRDbfjZPXIr9kXVDq1RiZkHvfBHYnVgpfai3wg3aOmJJ1n1bvUhyphenhyphenCvQAOtk/s640/blogger-image--1644622104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOJopXH_HJD7G25FTnje9AVFCVT43K_RqI7dBHjhx4ThFyXpXeiFg-JtyBBlOzFcCD1Q3G5TpyHEQX_-vsNorZO3lwSYGHMnc9HCeFXIV7u5nXfAdzrD2A2_j1rJDO80f3rl8jC3YfSs/s640/blogger-image-2039211188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOJopXH_HJD7G25FTnje9AVFCVT43K_RqI7dBHjhx4ThFyXpXeiFg-JtyBBlOzFcCD1Q3G5TpyHEQX_-vsNorZO3lwSYGHMnc9HCeFXIV7u5nXfAdzrD2A2_j1rJDO80f3rl8jC3YfSs/s640/blogger-image-2039211188.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Alright, so that was Monday. We we're getting kicked out of the hotel on Tuesday so we needed a plan. Stay in Paris and look for apartments that don't really exist yet because the entire country is still one vacation, or go on a trip ourselves and deal with important life things later. Well duh, leave! It actually wasn't that irresponsible, there really were no apartments to see until Monday so we split!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thank god for my storage unit. Essentially, we have moved into that. Leaving our hotel for the storage unit to repack our bags so they were light!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOJopXH_HJD7G25FTnje9AVFCVT43K_RqI7dBHjhx4ThFyXpXeiFg-JtyBBlOzFcCD1Q3G5TpyHEQX_-vsNorZO3lwSYGHMnc9HCeFXIV7u5nXfAdzrD2A2_j1rJDO80f3rl8jC3YfSs/s640/blogger-image-2039211188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDwLJMSU27XNVrQ8H3XmhJRWyaiZxQKoOBn3N2Q0MOsbe8dzy2bzx7SopvDBxp9qBWxQ5CmDLr9NsV2wIjkuFDd7oVQTtvM85ey_Q9rRnD1hF-hzccXc3rZFsdzoLsrEzxRGEPY9oL_U/s640/blogger-image-2129000584.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDwLJMSU27XNVrQ8H3XmhJRWyaiZxQKoOBn3N2Q0MOsbe8dzy2bzx7SopvDBxp9qBWxQ5CmDLr9NsV2wIjkuFDd7oVQTtvM85ey_Q9rRnD1hF-hzccXc3rZFsdzoLsrEzxRGEPY9oL_U/s640/blogger-image-2129000584.jpg"></a></div><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Because these are way way too big! Remember, we have ones one the front too! That honestly was hard on the lungs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'.HelveticaNeueUI'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIdNQjMct_pTEAiobbsyiq-kmqMX1aYgHqLO_Sn5DU9kUOoGjDJXU8ZqFWB_5tEczwyU9mxlrGgzvEXX8XK7t59jjlr3ndmrbDO4HZzrlyOWBSnaOF_X2rYkriPCrlaeLEQDcJC-wL2U/s640/blogger-image-275557278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIdNQjMct_pTEAiobbsyiq-kmqMX1aYgHqLO_Sn5DU9kUOoGjDJXU8ZqFWB_5tEczwyU9mxlrGgzvEXX8XK7t59jjlr3ndmrbDO4HZzrlyOWBSnaOF_X2rYkriPCrlaeLEQDcJC-wL2U/s640/blogger-image-275557278.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Hmm...Walking to the storage unit.... It was HOT!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: both; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIdNQjMct_pTEAiobbsyiq-kmqMX1aYgHqLO_Sn5DU9kUOoGjDJXU8ZqFWB_5tEczwyU9mxlrGgzvEXX8XK7t59jjlr3ndmrbDO4HZzrlyOWBSnaOF_X2rYkriPCrlaeLEQDcJC-wL2U/s640/blogger-image-275557278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiCMVvKnwdGy9nRZwfq31ksK80CqtBMdXptHwgfKpuQbVuenrrWuPie53OTwVSMtLVSdyn1v5_L9wWGonnHaHodsFlB0ASfZLlaP_HJ0CBrasAkmbMRZJ1ohs4uW-GRpLToSGqkgiXjI/s640/blogger-image--1281239464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiCMVvKnwdGy9nRZwfq31ksK80CqtBMdXptHwgfKpuQbVuenrrWuPie53OTwVSMtLVSdyn1v5_L9wWGonnHaHodsFlB0ASfZLlaP_HJ0CBrasAkmbMRZJ1ohs4uW-GRpLToSGqkgiXjI/s640/blogger-image--1281239464.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: both; "><br></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">We repacked, picture to come, ditched th bags and explored. Lauren wants me to drink more water so here she is kindly refilling my water bottle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiCMVvKnwdGy9nRZwfq31ksK80CqtBMdXptHwgfKpuQbVuenrrWuPie53OTwVSMtLVSdyn1v5_L9wWGonnHaHodsFlB0ASfZLlaP_HJ0CBrasAkmbMRZJ1ohs4uW-GRpLToSGqkgiXjI/s640/blogger-image--1281239464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WsoMHsS5vBey1P3bCL64XUEuuPGeBxHqbuCkM0HfdrFADKIeEXZC1JdiLDNNdY9lplspW9Sn0NZ7BqlN15BHkYCCuGULGExkIWRB0VLzdWQNunkgrytgyswYyJcm5iHRC7dmP4wnC7c/s640/blogger-image--832404459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WsoMHsS5vBey1P3bCL64XUEuuPGeBxHqbuCkM0HfdrFADKIeEXZC1JdiLDNNdY9lplspW9Sn0NZ7BqlN15BHkYCCuGULGExkIWRB0VLzdWQNunkgrytgyswYyJcm5iHRC7dmP4wnC7c/s640/blogger-image--832404459.jpg"></a></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">We walked around a bit more before heading back to the station to catch our train to Amsterdam.</span><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WsoMHsS5vBey1P3bCL64XUEuuPGeBxHqbuCkM0HfdrFADKIeEXZC1JdiLDNNdY9lplspW9Sn0NZ7BqlN15BHkYCCuGULGExkIWRB0VLzdWQNunkgrytgyswYyJcm5iHRC7dmP4wnC7c/s640/blogger-image--832404459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AwyePMujIyGrebnbKdMjG6vvyTWI0UgrZPnUiR8t-KCDlsBZocg6MKYRNj80YI30fAu4j9ZFwpYN1Jym_x64HEWy1hV5K7us9K9ETRPYv1L2trYe_iDv4un4WBJHTOyLE0U0i4Piklk/s640/blogger-image--1444621108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AwyePMujIyGrebnbKdMjG6vvyTWI0UgrZPnUiR8t-KCDlsBZocg6MKYRNj80YI30fAu4j9ZFwpYN1Jym_x64HEWy1hV5K7us9K9ETRPYv1L2trYe_iDv4un4WBJHTOyLE0U0i4Piklk/s640/blogger-image--1444621108.jpg"></a></div></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">So to recap....typing on iPad sucks, France was hot, i still have no place to live, and now off to Amsterdam!</span><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: both; "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AwyePMujIyGrebnbKdMjG6vvyTWI0UgrZPnUiR8t-KCDlsBZocg6MKYRNj80YI30fAu4j9ZFwpYN1Jym_x64HEWy1hV5K7us9K9ETRPYv1L2trYe_iDv4un4WBJHTOyLE0U0i4Piklk/s640/blogger-image--1444621108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Proofreading really is a beautiful thing.... when you do it. Maybe today.<br>
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Currently, it's 4:30 in the morning. I am so tired at night yet wake up so so early. And then the vicious cycle continues. Either way, it's good for you all because when I wake up this early, I have time for an update!<br>
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Like the title says, to be honest, I have nothing exciting to report because really, everything that we have done the last two days had been..... BORING! Seriously, boring, but needed to get done.<br>
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Let's see, Sunday, went to church, walked around a bit exploring neighborhoods trying to get a feel for where is good place to live and where is not... oh wait! I have to tell about this! We accidentally ran into a rollerblading parade/race. One minute we're walking down the street the next were quickly bombarded by thousands of rollerbladers. And I do mean thousands. Lauren has a video which I must post later when I steal it from her phone. So that was pretty cool. Most things are closed on Sunday so the city is pretty dead so this was a nice surprise and livened things up a bit. We saw a Syria protest and then went and ate pizza. FYI, I love pizza so you're going to hear about it a lot.<br>
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Monday was really exhausting. An actual weekday so the apartment search began. Let's start by saying, this is not easy! Not at all. Another thing to point out..... I have never spoken this much french in my life! Normally I am with someone who speak wayyy better than I do so they talk. Not the case! I do all the talking and it is so good for me! In recap, we hit 5 rental agencies, 4 of which had no listings. I got a cell phone, we bought a train tickets, train discount cards, ate lunch, saw the opera house (that was actually fun), and then finally saw an apartment. Whew and my god we were exhausted. Barely made it to dinner... which was pizza. Don't worry, we ate french things for breakfast and lunch.<br>
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Anyway, not the most exciting two days but trying to keep you all up to date! But get excited.... on either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on apartment viewings, Lauren and I are going to hit up Belgium and the Netherlands. Get pumped! You know who you are Belgian Waffle people.<br>
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Until then!Brittany Burkhalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235769620669937358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334815274638458789.post-46801814947565930042013-08-31T21:31:00.002-07:002013-08-31T21:31:04.458-07:00And I'm HereSo, after much anxiety... and I do mean much, it begins again.<br />
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Leaving Hawaii has not been easy and it's not because of its natural beauty but mostly because Hawaii was easy and Paris is hard. (See how I side stepped all that emotion.)<br />
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Anyway, I spent last week getting ready to leave for France, for those of you who don't know, I am going to grad school in Paris. Thank God, my best friend Lauren for some had a few free months in her life and was able to come with me. Seriously, I would probably be a puddle if I had to do this on my own. So Lauren and I took off, Friday morning from Honolulu headed to Paris.<br />
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With the exception of my wayyyy overpriced ticket, this may be the most that I have ever spent on an airline ticket, must be karma for all my past flight deals, the trip was not bad. One stop in LA and then Paris.<br />
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First flight was fine, a bit bumpy, which in my mind translates to "OMG I'm going to die! (I hate to fly.) Either way, Honolulu to LA is a quick 5h13 minute trip. Lauren slept and I watched Grey's Anatomy, my new obsession on my other new obsession, The (Work) iPad. Work bc it's my dad old iPad that I used to use for the table.<br />
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Anyway, the flights almost done, we're landing. To be honest, landing is my favorite part. It means the flight is over, your closer to the ground, and it just feels more controlled than random turbulence. However, I have one big fear of landing.... not including the newly produced one of low air speed that was created last month with the Asiana flight, but I digress. My fear came when I saw Natalie Portman on Jay Leno like 8 years ago. Yes, I have a great memory.<br />
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Natalie was flying into New York, the plane was about to land, something happened and then the flight had to take off suddenly. Now, talking about this doesn't seem that bad, but when I heard that I thought I would die if I was ever on a flight that did that.<br />
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Can you guess the next part of my story.<br />
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So Lauren is a corpse next to me, and net to her is this Army man in cammies. We're landing, we're landing, we're langing, and then we are NOT landing. No, instead we are shooting straight up into the sky like a spaceship. To be honest the verticalness of the angle was actually quite impressive. So of course, I being to freak out.... and where does my mind immediately and logically go? Well of course we are going to nosedive into the ocean! LAX is right on the water, we've now shot up an impressive amount up and over the Pacific, and of course the only place left to go is in.<br />
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This may shock you, but instead we just circled the airport and tried to land again, this time successfully, about 15 minutes later. We touch down, people clap, and Lauren wakes up. I don't remember exactly what she said, but it was something like, wow, it's nice that they are clapping because it was such a great flight.<br />
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Me and Army man quickly corrected her.Turns out, right when we were about to land, another airplane pulled out onto the runway we were landing on we had to pull up. So that was fun.<br />
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The we had to wait on the tarmac and then finally we got off that plane. The waiting wasn't great because on our next flight, Lauren and I didn't have seats together and we were trying to get to our next gate as soon as possible. We had a two hour connection and I will give you a hint, it took the full two hours.<br />
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LAX is already confusing enough, but one really annoying thing is that to change terminals, you usually have to leave security, and today was not exception. After making it to the line, a battle between Lauren and a girl from an eastern block country who kept cutting in front of us on the corners, which Lauren took as a personal challenge, serveral paparazzi trying to photograph who we would later find out was Tom Welling, we made it it our gate and learned that there was no way to change our seats. So we boarded.<br />
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Well, apparently everyone wanted to change seats to it was mad chaos on the plane. I switched twice, Lauren three times, and finally, this really nice guy next to me traded with Lauren! Yay!<br />
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Thank you church for the headphones! They are AMAZING!<br />
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Photo of Birmingham, England from the plane.<br />
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So, the flight was bumpy. And actually bumpy. Like really bumpy. But I think that its always pretty rough when you fly over the Atlantic, at least it has been for me in the past. We land, are the first people through customs and head to baggage claim where all of our bags come, including my giant one, except for my one black one. Excellent.<br />
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Turns out it was in the oversized baggage place,not exactly sure why. We loaded it all into a taxi and head for.... the storage unit! Currently, I have no where to live, so everything but that green backpack is going into storage.<br />
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We hit up the storage unit, I do it all in French! Yeah baby, the man in incredibly nice, the place is huge, awesome! We metro to our hotel, which turns our is in this awesome and incredibly cute neighborhood, the hotel is awesome, and we got have a drink. I wish I had more picture but I don't.... tom morrow.<br />
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We walked around, ate dinner, then we died. SO much in one day! And now I write to you at 6am from my bathroom, as Lauren is sleeping, with this view<br />
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