Amsterdam was great! It was such a cute little city. Small, smushed-together homes with huge, inviting windows, canals running through every other street, bicycles that wouldn’t end…and houseboats! It rained a lot, but that didn’t make it any less adorable. Among other things, I visited the Anne Frank house, the Heineken Brewery and one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. Everything was so neat.
I have concluded that I am not a Heineken fan. The brewery was cool and I enjoyed the tour quite a bit, but I’m not the biggest fan of the beer. They did left me draught my own beer at the bar at the end, and I did it perfectly on my first try (which I was pretty proud about – the man who tried after me messed up 3 before he got a decent one), but that did not improve the taste. Of all the beer that I have tasted on my travels, my favorite would be either Guinness or Leffe, a Belgian beer that comes in the tastiest blond. A note on American beer: I have a Parisian friend here who was an exchange student at McKendree last year and he fell in love with Budweiser beer. He had some imported the other week and let one of our German friends from Munich have a taste. Her verdict? “Tastes like a German beer! And you should be very proud, because we Germans know our beer!”
Nell is arriving today for her weekend visit. She will be my first and only visitor in Paris. I can’t wait to see her! This will be the last time I will see her until we are both back in the States again. I am hoping we will be able to visit everything that she wants to see, but it will be tight. There is so much to see in Paris! 3 days is not much time. I am glad she will be here, particularly because McKendree Debate is hosting a tournament this weekend (the first McKendree Invitational ever) and I am missing it. Nell was also a member of the McK Debate team, so I am glad I will have a fellow debater here to keep me company while our team runs a tournament back home. Go Bearcats!
It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Paris. It’s going to be a good day.
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Yes. Go Bearcats.
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