3 months in the Netherlands!

Wow I know it's a been a while and I can explain, really I can. I just haven't felt like blogging, call it a bit of lazyness if you will but that is the truth. It's not for lack of time I have alot of it, so much that I dont know what to do with myself. I apologize and I promise to be much better and go back to posting twice a week at least!

Okay, so what have I been up to these past 3 weeks, I'd like to say that I've been pretty active...for the most part anyway!

On April 6^th, that was a Sunday I went with my agency and about 12 other girls who were also Au Pairs and we headed to Vlueten which is this small town about a half hour away from Utretcht. We went to see this huge castle, and while we were there we only saw maybe 3-4 rooms. It was fairly short. It was called the Castle Haar!

It was cool, but pictures were not allowed in there. Actually the rules that we got when we first go introduced to the tour guide was and I quote: No eating, No drinking, no chewing gum and no touchinG! I have to say that I...along with a few others didn’t follow that last rule...No touching....I touched everything...and I have no regrets!

They had a model of the castle in the inside made entirely up of sugar......I know right, who had the time? And they had a clock on the wall, with the Alligator or Crocodile skin, including the feet, tail, and head. It was like someone skinned it and then hung it up on the wall and put a clock where his stomach was. I touched it...it was gross but cool feeling, and oh so real.! 

The outside of the Castle looks like this though. 

One other thing about this castle is I found out this is the exact same one where the Elf Fantasy fair is going to be. I wont be going until they have it again in September as I really don’t want to go alone regardless of what I said last time.

The weekend after that, which was just this past weekend, I didn’t do anything and I'm happy about that. I had a true lazy weekend, I hadn’t had one of those since....maybe 2008 I think. It's been a while as I worked and school and just had no bloody time to laze about. So I did so last weekend and I worried my host parents.

So Note to self I'm no longer allowed to laze around...at least not for a whole weekend. Im going to be looking into getting the reduced card for the train, as I would like to go a lot of places. On a side note, on the 28^th of April I have a week off...I have no type of clue where I'm going. It would be the perfect time to go to London only I spent most of my money on things that I really needed. Oh well there is always May!

I think it was last week on Wednesday yeah it was, I take the girls to hockey practice on that day. And this particular day their were flowers in the grass, and Clara and I...proceeded to pick the entire field. Well she tried but I swear we didn’t even make a dent in it. But she was happy and I couldnt fault her for that. It was fun I'd like to say. Bascially I was the flower collector while she picked them. We had more of those but by then, we were flinging them back on the grass.

This last picture is a group of the girls I went with, all of them aren't in here, because everyone was off taking pictures of their own. I'm not a picture person, as you can see I look highly uncomfortable in this...or really all of them that I take. Anyway it was pretty fun all things considering.