Nederland

Yesterday I returned from Amsterdam. My friends Kate and Katie and I went to Holland for our fall break (which was just thursday and friday). I kind of broke the trend with my name, it was funny introducing ourselves to strangers in the hostel, "this is kate, katie, and aurelia..." Holland was unexpectedly beautiful especially Utrecht. We flew from Prague to Einhoven because it was cheaper than flying to Amsterdam, but this way we got to have lunch with a friend of katie's. His name was Arian and he made us a delicious french onion soup and some sort of turkish pizza wrap thing, and i'm just now realizing how hungry i am. Then he went with us to Utrecht and helped us find our hostel (thank god). Utrecht is like being in a postcard, it's like wee britian from arrested development, it's the cutest place imaginable. and EVERYONE was soooo nice, but this may have been amplified by the fact that pragers are so unfriendly. I got a new dress and a belt and a fried dough ball and i drooled over all the amazing boots, meanwhile my new boots are giving me a bruise on the back of my heal.. but i'm not gonna think about that too much. grump.
the next day we took the train 20 minutes to amsterdam. amsterdam is amazing because everything is designed, nothing is ugly or neglected, even the metro stations have cool neon lights on the escalators. the problem with amsterdam was that all the hostels were booked up leaving us sleeping in a different hostel every night, which is fine cause we're scrappy like that, but it really took a lot out of us and we didn't end up doing much but walking around the city and eating at restaurants. nevertheless amsterdam is a beautiful city, the little buildings on the canal amaze me, they look like site models that were sometimes poorly cut. but in the most adorable way. we had classic "awkward girl" time trying to get back to einhoven from amsterdam on monday morning, we just barely caught our flight. we were the last people to board and they almost didn't want to let us threw the gate.
but i'm definatley planning to move to holland and living in barbie's dream world where everyone is nice and rides their classic bikes around and sips lattes and wears glasses and classy boots. ahhh