tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45960880966578209852023-11-16T07:11:27.602-06:00Lost in HollandRoughing it in the land of windmills and pretty blue porcelain...Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-10157757152905401492009-03-20T21:02:00.005-05:002009-03-21T10:25:14.730-05:00Speyer 11-07-08This has been a long time in coming for one very big reason: while putting the video together in Picasa, I was trying to make sure I used the same specs I used in the last video (Rotterdam) and managed to save the new video over the old video, thereby deleting my Rotterdam video from my hard drive. I can't figure out how to get the video off of Google, so I've been so disgusted with the whole thing that I've not wanted to return to the project at all. That and I was being a bit lazy. Without further ado, however, here it is - what you've all been waiting for - the beginning of the end...
Andy and I have a friend from Germany whom we met in college. We've both been to see him and stay with his family, twice for me and once for Andy. He's a nice guy and his family is wonderful and incredibly hospitable. Since we were in Europe we couldn't not take a trip to see Martin, and since I'd been to Berlin, Mannheim and Heidelberg already, we decided to take a trip to southern Bavaria to see Neuschwanstein (literally something like New Swan Castle - I don't know what stein is besides a beer mug!). The first day we were in Germany, though, we took a day trip to Speyer, a little town close to Heidelberg and Mannheim. These are photos from that part of the trip. Enjoy!
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-73163710362920341842009-01-31T09:13:00.002-06:002009-01-31T09:19:47.158-06:00What's Shakin'I’ve been away for quite a while now – Andy and I have returned to the States and are back in Chicago after a dreamlike month back home. Returning to Chicago at the beginning of a cold and snowy January from a warm and sunny Texas is a bit like slamming your forehead into a brick wall. At least it gives more than granite…
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Now for the really exciting stuff: what’s coming up! As you’ve all seen, I’ve been a huge slacker when it comes to posting photos for the last few trips. Never fear, however! Come Monday, I’ll post the photos from Germany, then the ones from Paris, and then, most exciting of all, THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE! It turned out very nicely, and I want to do one for next year, though I have now forgotten whatever brilliant ideas I had besides using sugar cookie instead of gingerbread, since apparently the only people who like gingerbread are my mom and my husband. Who knew!
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In less pleasantly wonderful news, the return to pre-European weight continues. I blame the salad. And the bizarre-o egg cravings.Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-58738851195670613442008-12-10T10:58:00.003-06:002008-12-10T11:15:31.412-06:00IncognitoIt's been a LONG while since I updated anybody one what's shaking in the Netherlands, but that's because I don't know anymore! Andy and I got home safe and sound after a long flight to Philly and a longer (it felt that way) flight to DFW on a HOT, uncomfortable, drinkless US Airways flight. I was actually sweating when we landed, so I will probably avoid flying on any of their domestic flights in the future, and probably the international ones as well. Any company that's too cheap to serve me a free soda and too cheap to turn on the AIR CONDITIONING is too cheap to deserve my patronage. Southwest has cheaper flights and still serves a free beverage and uses air conditioning (last I checked, I don't fly much).
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So what have I been doing since arriving in the Lone Star State (also known as the greatest state in the Union)? I've gone Christmas shopping, started making plans for a gingerbread house for my mom (gingerbread is so nasty), bought a graduation gift for my brother, thought about buying a wedding gift for my other brother who got married last summer and otherwise made a nuisance of myself. I did also come up with some new designs for a friend's website, but I have yet to remember to ask her permission for me to blog about it, so I can't tell you much. =)
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I'll update you on my culinary experiences and post photos from Germany, Belgium and Paris next week if I can convince my lazy booty to do so. That reminds me - I became fairly convinced while in Europe that I had lost a good bit of weight - most of my pants, especially my slacks, which had been a bit snug - were practically falling off. It turns out I lost 10 pounds while there. I've gained 2 of them back in 12 short days. =)Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-20558723709404810162008-11-20T07:52:00.003-06:002008-11-20T08:06:30.528-06:00Things I'm Not Going to Miss... Much LongerI've been MIA for a few weeks now and thought I'd put one more post up before heading back to the States.
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It's been fun, it's been real, but man, I am ready to go home.
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In no particular order here are the foods I can't wait to eat:
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<li>brownies</li>
<li>Andrew's [In]Famous chocolate chip cookies*</li>
<li>ranger crispies</li>
<li>my family's chicken fried steak</li>
<li>my dad's augratten potatoes</li>
<li>lasagna</li>
<li>fried okra</li>
<li>fried catfish</li>
<li>cake (just give me real, honest to goodness cake!)</li>
<li>vanilla/chocolate Blue Bell ice cream</li>
<li>tamales</li>
<li>ribs</li>
<li>chili cheese dogs</li>
<li>turkey sandwiches (who would ever have thought there aren't turkeys in Europe**!)</li>
<li>Andy's breakfast burritos</li>
<li>my family's hamburgers</li>
<li>my dad's gumbo</li>
<li>sausage (the Dutch don't know sausage)</li>
<li>twice baked potatoes</li>
<li>Andy's chicken alfredo pizza</li>
<li>my mom's pepperoni/sausage pizza</li>
<li>Andy's spinach calzones</li>
<li>Andy's mushroom white sauce stuff***</li>
<li>quesadillas</li>
<li>pb&j sandwiches</li>
<li>tuna fish crackers (with Saltines!)</li>
<li>45 Minute Cream Cheese Cake</li>
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Maybe I'll have enough time to drop a few more things I can't wait to do (like drive a car for the first time in 5 and a half months) or places I can't wait to eat or just things I can't wait for in general.
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*These were once a Calvert House specialty. Alas the baker took a job working for some fancy shmancy NYC law firm, and now the only thing I have recourse to are my own unworthy version of his recipe.
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**Yes, yes, I know [knew] there aren't turkeys in Europe, but I never thought about it meaning no more turkey sandwiches. I actually gave up eating sandwiches, because I couldn't take it anymore.
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***It's amazingly good and the original recipe (now modified by Andy) was from Wolfgang Puck.Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-873525699607942792008-10-23T04:24:00.004-05:002008-10-23T04:52:31.828-05:00The Process IIIt's been a while since I last posted on said <a href="http://6monthsinholland.blogspot.com/2008/06/process.html">topic</a>, but we finally got our BSS numbers, and the bank account. The first time we went in, Andy accidentally mentioned that the UChicago department address wasn't our home address. They didn't like that and informed us we would need to provide them with a utility bill (A UTILITY BILL!) with our home address on it. Fortunately, since the California mail fiasco*, I have one of the utility companies send me an email with our bill as a pdf (not so tech savvy), and Andy could print this out at work. When we next went into the bank, Andy avoided mentioning the information regarding said address, and we got the account setup without further difficulties.
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As for the envelope my mom sent us, we don't know where it went, but it took FOUR weeks to get to us. Priority mail my bootay. In the meantime we probably received a half dozen letters from Andy's mom, each within about 3 days of the postmark. Priority mail must get routed through Chicago... Fortunately, we didn't need that to get the BSS numbers, just to register as citizens and get our special I-live-in-Europe cards, which we didn't really care about anyways, though maybe if they knew we didn't have them after 90 days they'd kick us out. Who knows.
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Once we got the original documents we went back to the Gementee office (I guess that means government or that other word I'm thinking of, but I can't remember what it is and it starts with a c**) and registrated*** our marriage. A couple weeks later, Andy received a letter stating that he need to present himself in Rijskwijk to pick up his citizenship card thingy. We walk into a long room with little offices along each wall. You had to be buzzed into the offices, which, if I remember correctly, had windows facing into the bigger room. It was very strange and somewhat creepy. So Andy walked in, showed them his passport, received the card and we went home. Why why why?
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I still don't have my card. I was somewhat hoping it would be important, I would be caught without it, and then I would get to go home early courtesy the Dutch government. No such luck. ;)
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So that's it for the process. I've since learned that it's a bit ridiculous in every country, but I still don't understand why we had to go to THREE different offices to accomplish this task. I can sort of understand Den Haag and the local office, but Rijkswijk??? Did they just elect the right guy who pulled the right strings to get them the important office of temporary-citizenship-card-thingy issuers? And why weren't the photocopied documents that were acceptable to the national government acceptable to the local government? These are questions of lasting importance to the well being of the world, and they must be answered!
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*The California mail fiasco was initiated when Andy and I spent a summer in California. We had our mail temporarily forwarded there, and now a good chunk of our mail still goes to California. I haven't seen certain utility bills since we left California, while we were still in Chicago, I had my insurance company mail me at work, and I don't even want to know what I don't know didn't arrive at our Chicago address.
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**Actually, the word does NOT start with a c. It in fact starts with an m and is municipal. ;)
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***What in blue blazes is registrated anyways? Is this a word the British use instead of registered and the poor, unfortunate Dutch picked it up from them thinking it was proper English? ;) Or is it a Dutchified version of registered? The world may never know...Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-55743003528298261422008-10-21T04:38:00.014-05:002008-10-28T10:57:27.255-05:00Rotterdam Zoo 10-04-08Andy and I went to Rotterdam a couple weeks ago to visit the zoo and had a pretty good time even though it was pretty cold for visiting the zoo. I was surprised at how many animals were still outside, but even if they'd been inside, many of the exhibits had indoor visitors areas. I was disappointed by the size of the exhibits, most notably the rhinoceros exhibit which seemed pretty small for such a large animal. For a small zoo, however, it had quite a variety of animals. I made a movie of the photos since there were so many, but as always, you can check them out individually below. Have fun!
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*<a href="http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=277">Red vs Blue</a> is a super funny web series based in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_series">Halo</a>, the exceedingly popular first person shooter. As a warning, they have potty mouths.
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**Prairie dogs have long been the bane of cattle and horse ranchers, as they are suspected of both eating all the grass and digging holes into which unsuspecting animals (particularly horses) step, breaking their legs (possibly throwing a rider, who then may also injure himself). Said animals are usually killed as the expense and unlikelihood of properly repairing the injury outweigh the animal's value.*** Some wildlife experts believe this long held belief to be highly suspect.
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***It's somewhat ironic to note that we've begun doing this to humans...
</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-5236164722477221262008-10-18T06:52:00.000-05:002008-10-18T06:53:27.753-05:00FollowingFor the sake of learning who our one and only reader is (I hope there's one of you anyways), I've added the <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=104226">Followers Gadget</a> to my sidebar. Once you've added my blog to your list, Blogger will update my list and stick your profile photo in my sidebar. It's pretty nifty and gives people an opportunity to learn about your blog while perusing mine. It's also a nice colorful addition when there are many faces there, so it's aesthetically pleasing to boot!
The only drawback as far as I'm concerned is if you're using Google Reader already (which I am), then it adds another folder for the Blogger blogs that you follow. Those blogs are, of course, already in <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a> (which is grrrrrrrrrrrreat!), so I now have them twice, in folders that I want them in. Not a big deal, just a little annoying. Maybe they'll eventually make that an option. Even with the annoyance, I clicked to follow blogs to let folks know I think their blogs rock enough to let them put my face on it.* =)
All that being said, if you'd like to follow this blog, just go to Regular Readers** on my sidebar and follow the instructions!
*Followers just makes me feel like I've got some sort of crazy messiah complex...
**You don't have to think my blog rocks, I just want you to stick your face on my blog. 0=)Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-4777228298578808392008-10-15T04:05:00.004-05:002008-10-15T04:35:10.426-05:00Oslo Vigeland Park 08-31-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
<span style="font-weight:bold;">**WARNING: Naked statues ahead!!!**</span>
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. Vigeland Park is one of if not the most popular tourist attractions in Oslo. I had looked it up online before we left and had decided against going. I've never been into sculpture work and wasn't expecting a giant park full of nudes to be particularly interesting. When Andy and Peter insisted we go, I drug my feet, but was very pleasantly surprised to discover that they didn't just put a bunch of random statues in a park. Instead, the entire thing is a whole, with the statues sitting within a context rather than as individual, uninteresting studies of the human form.
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The third photo contains a shot of the grand finale - a monolith of bodies. Unfortunately, the darn thing was wrapped up in plastic, so there's no picture. Surrounding it, however, were lots of other statues that I did get to see. =)
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There's a bridge shortly after entering the park with statues all along the sides, which is very cool. I don't know why Andy refused to strip down to do a proper imitation of the statue, but this is the best he would do...
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Later on you come to a fountain surrounded by trees with people in them. This is sort of a play on the tree of life idea but not. As you go from one tree to another, you see that there is a beginning and and end - babies to children to adults to old people. I liked it.
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Despite it being cold and dark outside, Norway has some beautiful flowers and Vigeland Park had several little gardens where I cajoled Andy into take more flower pictures. =)
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If you look at the second photo more closely, you can see one of the more bizarre (and frightening) statues in the park.
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One thing Oslo is probably not famous for is it's architecture. Nevertheless, we found one or two very cool buildings, a couple of very ugly buildings, a gigantic iceberg and the usual run of the mill Roman/Greek municipal building knockoffs.
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As you can see, our first two items fall in the latter category while the third item is simply sort of interesting and reminiscent of some English style or other that Andy termed Victorian and with which I disagreed though I offered no justification and no alternative. I try at all times to be as informative and reasonable as possible...
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No idea what this building is besides exceedingly ugly. It's next to/near the art museum (quick tour: the Norwegians came to painting late and painted some lovely scenes, few of which have become famous as masterpieces). This building is also near/on the University of Oslo campus, so perhaps if you are desperate to know what it is, you can find information there.
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The last building of this series was cool, so I hope you enjoy that one. =)
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As you can probably imagine this is some sort of government building. No, I'm afraid I don't recall which one, but it sits fairly near the piers where we took the boat tour and the boat to get to the Viking ship museum. It has a nice little garden beside it and some naked* statues (Norwegians prefer their statues naked, thank you).
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Finally, we have the iceberg/glacier opera house. From a distance, I think it looks more like an iceberg, but since I've never seen a glacier** I suppose I really wouldn't know. You're invited and encouraged to climb all over the opera house with the safety of knowing there are no giant crevices waiting to swallow you whole and hold you in their bowels until you freeze to death. Somehow the exhilaration was simply not up to expectations... Nonetheless, once you were on the opera house, it did kind of seem like a glacier - they used some sort of sparkly stuff, which caused a lovely blinding effect, just like walking on new, slightly icy snow in the sun. It was kind of neat, but I don't know what glaciers have to do with opera...
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*Sorry, that's supposed to be nude isn't it?
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**Actually, I've never seen an iceberg in person either.Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-73540037632230366602008-10-09T03:29:00.005-05:002008-10-09T04:01:52.853-05:00Oslo Boats 08-30-08<div style="width: 100%; float: left;">
So let's get the "those aren't boats" out of the way, first. This first photo is a lighthouse. I won't tell you what that has to do with boats, except that they're important.
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Our next items are also not boats [anymore]. They were Viking ships - you know those things that carried marauding rapists and pillagers to England until King Arthur united the Saxons... Wait. No. Well, anyways, they carried marauding rapists and pillagers to various places. Some of them also carried people who decided to settle in the areas where they first went about marauding as rapists and pillagers. I have to wonder if they in turn were raped and pillaged by their marauding kin on a return trip... Oh yes, and that fellow in the photo is our friend Peter. His ancestors were the marauders who raped and pillaged England... That could explain a few things now that I think about it... 0=D
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And finally, it IS a boat sort of thing - a cruise ship. There were several in the harbor, and since I don't think they're very interesting, I only put one picture up. 0=) Hey, they're MY vacation photos, if you don't like them, you don't have to look at them! =P
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Clearly, Han Solo was a Russian. If he weren't, Princess Leia would never have had cause to say, "You fly in that thing? You're braver than I thought." Those were my thoughts when our boat tour took us past a Russian battle ship sitting in the Oslo harbor. Check out all the rust along the water line. That's something I've never see on American battleships.
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And last, but not least, some sailboats for my friend Matt. Of course, I like them too, but he REALLY likes them, and I would probably never actually want to be on one except on a lake or a harbor like Oslo where the waters are smooth. Puking is not my favorite activity...
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-67163715666598717572008-10-08T04:20:00.006-05:002008-10-08T04:41:53.589-05:00Oslo Akershus Fortress 08-30-08<div style="width: 100%; float: left;">
One of the first things we did Saturday morning was go to the Akershus Fortress with the goal of seeing the castle. The fortress was pretty neat, though not especially exciting since there weren't any battles going on. I think many fortresses are disappointing in this same way - they are exciting in my imagination due to the human struggles for which they were necessary, but upon arrival, they turn out to be empty and ordinary.
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There's not much to say about the matter - it was pretty and green and had old buildings. Enjoy the photos!
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Actually, the last photo in this section was taken from our boat tour.
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-53440567348159228722008-10-02T04:33:00.007-05:002008-10-02T05:23:26.804-05:00More Dutch Fun!<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qs5_8GZq1uFg4byDmTjaPPmuLMxZ4hRZMK8Tj_4p-mDAsaYrHVU0Hmzlt9RLPXRTj9YbgPAz7Y3vyXrcUvpL7XXPXVQGiY8OokQU4DnbtK3T5sBx3Va8LxdBNeAxXB6egoTnwvGbDoM/s1600-h/DSC01492.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: solid 1px #000; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qs5_8GZq1uFg4byDmTjaPPmuLMxZ4hRZMK8Tj_4p-mDAsaYrHVU0Hmzlt9RLPXRTj9YbgPAz7Y3vyXrcUvpL7XXPXVQGiY8OokQU4DnbtK3T5sBx3Va8LxdBNeAxXB6egoTnwvGbDoM/s320/DSC01492.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252489874310810978" /></a>I have only seen two of these in my entire life - the first being when I arrived in our apartment, and the second being the dreadfully strange French movie L'Enfant that Andy and I watched sometime after we got here. It turns out that the thing doesn't simply provide you with water in your kitchen, it's hooked up to the bathroom as well. Happily enough, despite the fact that I think it's got to be some sort of huge fire hazard, it actually heats the water fast enough to provide a hot shower for however long you want to stay in there, regardless of how long your neighbor runs his shower. It turns out that when you start to run the hot water, a series of flames light up to heat the water, and if you move that knob that appears to be on a track to the left, it heats the water less. I actually kind of like it... =/
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAq5HkOPseFD4TD-de17qoYXbULjCplM81ZaraKX1O9-OA58xNERjLrI8xFaQMmkT6x0mub612n9-8bA1egFnB6T3BVX17RkU8iymY7x2jyOKY0mnbKdfZKi_Gka-uBt7mWA2jRM81XwA/s1600-h/DSC01797.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: solid 1px #000; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAq5HkOPseFD4TD-de17qoYXbULjCplM81ZaraKX1O9-OA58xNERjLrI8xFaQMmkT6x0mub612n9-8bA1egFnB6T3BVX17RkU8iymY7x2jyOKY0mnbKdfZKi_Gka-uBt7mWA2jRM81XwA/s320/DSC01797.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252489697026415298" /></a>I really wish we hadn't thrown our old American tube of toothpaste away, then you could see just how much smaller the Dutch tubes are than the American ones. Instead of buying toothpaste every other month or maybe even every three months (I so seldom buy toothpaste in the States I don't even know how often I buy it!), I now make toothpaste purchases at least once a month.
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzW6cg2hs45Kr73FyFUq2OoroxD6-HGH-h61vYhTCZe4i2jA6KDSWkZzCaZhnUB_XBoFzTUjsYH1eaV7t2kYwJp0KU5vsdQ_vhW-gHZYsPJyzcmOYMbBuLHy5_V9yMvHnLYpww6zcfgVw/s1600-h/DSC01804.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: solid 1px #000; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzW6cg2hs45Kr73FyFUq2OoroxD6-HGH-h61vYhTCZe4i2jA6KDSWkZzCaZhnUB_XBoFzTUjsYH1eaV7t2kYwJp0KU5vsdQ_vhW-gHZYsPJyzcmOYMbBuLHy5_V9yMvHnLYpww6zcfgVw/s320/DSC01804.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252489700423821090" /></a>I think everyone has heard some little snippet of the cheese rant. Some of you may even have read the accompanying story over at <a href="http://betwixtmineears.blogspot.com/2008/09/king-of-cheese.html">Betwixt Mine Ears</a>. In an effort to find something BESIDES gouda to eat, I purchased this little cheese wedge. I figured that maybe on some off chance it might actually taste a bit like cheddar. Well, it does. But it also has a consistency reminiscent of Velveeta. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at the absurdity of cheddar that melts smoothly. Of course, if I could get this in the States, it would surely improve the taste of my already fantastic queso. And now, after being in Spain and in Europe, I find that I must refrain from defining queso just in case you don't know what a Texan means by queso... I think I'm going to need help...
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht35PHRWWWXREACsRQVUfOeLzrObY_c5Zz-GSsqTw2Mn8-TrvA5K1DrdSfEKk1l9OnLH1KXtT8irRAFWrVsRGwD1bmzKfQEHG_YalLVoDnai0y6FA8XA6cCiMRrmpK3Y9xHD0hhoqHrl8/s1600-h/DSC01806.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: solid 1px #000; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht35PHRWWWXREACsRQVUfOeLzrObY_c5Zz-GSsqTw2Mn8-TrvA5K1DrdSfEKk1l9OnLH1KXtT8irRAFWrVsRGwD1bmzKfQEHG_YalLVoDnai0y6FA8XA6cCiMRrmpK3Y9xHD0hhoqHrl8/s320/DSC01806.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252489701850013906" /></a>I don't know if they're ducks or geese or what, but they're kind of ugly. It's sort of like that one slightly defective looking duck that's in every duck pond - you can't decide if you should let it starve so that Mother Nature can run her course or if you should give it extra bread crumbs, because it's probably not going to reproduce and all the other ducks probably make fun of it. I don't think these are mutants, though... Poor ugly umm duckies er goosies er whatever the heck you are...
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BwN6WMUTL3eKwvLYf76z07cTJFKwxS-X5Sf-FkfIm_rZbJkGadxbmZTvEA4-344iRZcc2k5I7uvSoC7xUVvwl11crnUUfdNOyivJ6UF3l3n5XWdg8xU69CzhjWqh1qIyLPt8ngG1nEw/s1600-h/DSC01824.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: solid 1px #000; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BwN6WMUTL3eKwvLYf76z07cTJFKwxS-X5Sf-FkfIm_rZbJkGadxbmZTvEA4-344iRZcc2k5I7uvSoC7xUVvwl11crnUUfdNOyivJ6UF3l3n5XWdg8xU69CzhjWqh1qIyLPt8ngG1nEw/s320/DSC01824.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252489711643588514" /></a>And finally, last but not least, the Chupa Chups. I have loved these things from the moment I first saw them, though that perhaps has more to do with the slogan than anything else... I'd been wanting to purchase a box just so I could take a picture for the blog, but couldn't convince myself that it was really worthwhile. As luck would have it, however, I got a bit of a sore throat this week and thought maybe they might sooth and uhhh relax my throat.
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It turns out I should have read something on the label besides the slogan, because I was terribly disappointed when I opened the box and realized they were SUCKERS. I hate suckers. There's always that little bit of saliva that wants to dribble out your mouth where the stupid stick is, and then there's the fact that you actually have to HOLD the sucker in place in order to suck on it. There's absolutely nothing relaxing about a sucker. I hate them.
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If, however, you turn the box, you discover that I am not the target consumer, but smokers stuck in locations where they can't smoke are. After all, a sucker "Does not harm those around you!" Oi ve. Anywho, Raquel was kind enough to look up the Chupa Chups online and found out that the darn things are from SPAIN. Now THAT is a country that needs an alternative to smoking...
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*I think it's cheese, but it didn't taste very yummy.Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-25384405074493179622008-09-29T04:51:00.008-05:002008-09-30T05:20:44.465-05:00Oslo Misc 08-30-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
As some of you know, Andy and I visited Oslo at the end of last month. While we had a good time, it wasn't due to Oslo, so I haven't really been geared up about posting photos from the trip. Now that it's been a month, I'm feeling better about the trip, and the photos make it look like a great place! Why Oslo isn't great: there's nothing of real interest besides the sculpture park (which is very cool), everything costs at least twice as much as it does in the US, not everything is worth half it's price and finally, Bilbao was cheaper, more interesting and just as beautiful. That being said, I wouldn't mind going back to Norway for hiking - it's a beautiful country, and I understand that the coastal areas are absolutely breathtaking. It might look like Oslo is on the coast from our photos, but if you check out a map, it's on a bay pretty far inside the country. If you look at the photos of the water, you'll notice that they look more like a lake on a calm day than the ocean - that's because the only waves were wakes, and it's not the ocean. =)
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Now to business. The photos here are just a bunch that didn't quite fit into other categories, but they're all from our first full day in Oslo. I don't remember exactly what building the photos below were in front of, but the building will be included in the architecture post. 0=) I recommend that you click on the third one, simply because it's kind of neat, and it gets lost in a small photo.
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I made poor Andy take a picture of this silly wall of stuff, so I felt like I had to include it. It's not very exciting is it? The other two are from the downtown shopping area where we ate TGIF and enjoyed some pretty decent hamburgers and free refills (the cokes are more expensive, but you only get one 8oz glass all over Europe! insanity!).
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I've been known to get a bit seasick from time to time, so I convinced Andy and Peter to let me sit on the side of the boat for the bay tour. This is me pretending to puke (in my own lap, no less!). I didn't get sick and quickly felt a little bad about insisting on the outer seat since the water was so smooth. There are more photos from the tour, but they're elsewhere.
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One interesting thing we learned is that on two of the islands there are these little houses, and they can only be painted yellow, red or blue on one island and green, or ummm, two of the other colors, which I have now forgotten on the other. Their sizes are also regulated - originally houses were not allowed on either island, so people would bring out their camping stuff, marking off their territory. Then in order to protect their stuff, they built shelters without walls, and eventually added walls, so they weren't TECHNICALLY building houses, but that's what they become, and now their sizes are regulated.
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Our last stop before dinner was the opera house - a great, white, pointy edged edifice that's supposed to look like a glacier. I'll give it a giant iceberg. There are photos from a distance in the architecture page. It turned out that the surface was slightly sparkly (don't ask me why), so it was VERY bright on top, but we hiked up it, took some pictures, and walked back down. That's Peter, Andy's friend who was doing research in Oslo for the summer. He's smart, though - he's going home at the end of the summer. ;)
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After the opera house, as I've said, we went to dinner and had one of the best meals since Spain. There are a number of restaurants lining a section of the bay near the municipal (?) building, but most look somewhat touristy or kitschy, so we kept walking, and finally turned a corner to find a little, out of the way place (but not a hole in the wall, which rarely ever serve good food). Andy's mussels (oysters, clams? I have no idea) were excellent, as were my skewered shrimp, though plain white rice is generally not my thing... That meal was almost worth the price we paid. ;D
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-2324476294497121852008-09-26T04:19:00.007-05:002008-09-26T04:43:06.109-05:00Cambridge 07-12-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
Well, Andy has decided that Cambridge* was too long ago to do a post, and I don't have any brilliant story ideas for <a href="http://betwixtmineears.blogspot.com">Betwixt Mine Ears</a>, so I'm posting photos without comments. Have fun. ;)
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*I think these are all from Cambridge anyways!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-1549321688945110462008-09-24T04:27:00.011-05:002008-10-28T10:57:49.719-05:00Amsterdam I 09-22-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
We met up with my aunt, her husband and their two friends on Monday to tour Amsterdam. We had a pretty good time, starting off with the Anne Frank Museum and finishing up with one of the better meals we've had in the Netherlands.
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The Anne Frank Museum is kind of neat, but pretty small. It's all inside the house and warehouse where they were hiding in Amsterdam. The first two pictures are actually ones I took while waiting in line. They're actually the only ones taken by either Andy or I in this bunch. My aunt's camera broke midway through the day, so we loaned her ours for the rest of the day. Hopefully hers will magically fix itself like ours did in London.
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After that, we had breakfast at a little pannenkoekenhuis (pancake house) and had crepes. These were done slightly differently from the ones we've had in the south, with the filling sitting on top like a pizza rather than magically inside the batter. Some day I'll figure out how they do that... The crepes were pretty good, though Andy's omelet was apparently tasteless. I knew he shouldn't, but I didn't say anything. Some wife I am. ;)
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Our next stop was the Van Gogh Museum where I discovered I don't really like Van Gogh all that much. I don't think I was alone in that discovery. Andy and I are beginning to pick up on a dark, self-centered, egotistical streak in Dutch artists. Of course, this is based on two, but that's beside the point. If you make your test group too large, it's harder to make generalizations. =D
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Following that we stopped for a bit in a little park somewhere in Amsterdam, then found our way to the canal tour, where we listed to a Dutchman tell us about the horrible Dutch language, the canals, the history and the bad food. He was pretty funny, though I'm not sure how much of what he had to say was true. =) As a Texan, I recognize the value of exaggeration for telling a good story, but that doesn't mean I've got to buy it every time I hear it. ;)
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Before dinner, we decided to go check out St. Nicholas' church which stands near/on the border for the red light district and was not far from the boat. I'm not sure how long that area has been a red light district, but, as the tour guide pointed out, it's appropriate since St. Nicholas is the patron of prostitutes. I'll spare you my tirade on prostitution and just say that the church looked nice on the outside, but we didn't get to see the inside.
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The next step was dinner, and after a good bit of roaming and a bit of grumbling, we found a suitable location. As are all meals that don't involve fried snacks in the Netherlands, it was overpriced for its quality, but it was pretty good anyways.
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A lot of the buildings in Amsterdam (and throughout the Netherlands) will lean one way or another, like the building in the first photo. According to the canal guide, when the foundation was laid, they dug a big hole and put the houses on wooden pillers, some of which are now rotting, causing the structures to lean. I'm not sure if it's occurred to anyone to fix the problem...
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The other photos in this group are a memorial to something, police officers waggling their fingers at somebody while on horses and a building. All taken while we tried to figure out something to eat.
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-84031911501735011952008-09-17T03:33:00.002-05:002008-09-17T03:36:12.202-05:00Spanish FoodTo hear about the wonderful culinary experience we had in Spain, be sure to check out Andy's food blog, <a href="http://terrel.us/eatn_and_drinkn/">Eat'n & Drink'n</a>. Yum!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-39714119514306670622008-09-16T02:59:00.009-05:002008-09-16T03:46:09.471-05:00Bilbao 08-12-08Our last day in Bilbao was really only a half day, so we took the Transborder across the river, walked around a bit, and then took it back across and walked down the beach a ways. After that, Borja's dad treated us to the lovely Basque pre-lunch ritual of bar fingerfoods. After selecting whatever looked good, keeping a tally in our head and munching until we'd had enough, we paid the bartender and went off in search of ice cream. Oh ice cream. You are so good. We won't mention the terrible ice cream policies maintained by the Dutch. They make me too sad. ;)
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Here are a few photos also in video form. Enjoy!
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And, for close ups, here are the photos. ;)
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-9959650735542783552008-09-12T04:53:00.009-05:002008-09-12T10:28:52.937-05:00Bilbao 08-11-08I just discovered that I can make slideshows/videos with Picassa, so I made one! These are the photos from our first day in Bilbao. I hope you enjoy!
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(if the photos stay up a little too long, that's because the time has to be the same on all of them, and I timed them based on whether or not I could read them and still look at the photo)
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If you want to see any of the photos in better detail, here they are without comments:
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-69146075425609563022008-09-11T04:16:00.007-05:002008-09-11T04:58:36.083-05:00Bilbao Architecture 08-10-11-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
Most of this is just really cool Bilbao architecture, and has nothing to do with anything other than that I liked it. =) Unlike most modern cities in the US, I think Bilbao has wonderful examples of beautiful modern architecture that respects what has come before rather than attempting to slough it off. On the other hand, it has examples of blatant disregard and disgust for the old, as you can see in the modern looking church below.
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The second photo is of some official looking building that here acts as a representative of attractive modern architecture. There were more buildings like this, but apparently we didn't take pictures of them. 0=)
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The building on the far right was really freaking cool, but it's hard to tell just how cool it is. It sort of looks like there was a building between it and the building behind it, but that building has now been removed. So this one very skinny building was just standing all by itself in the middle of everything, but unfortunately the shot doesn't quite capture it.
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The statue portrays the Basque hero (whose name I have now forgotten) conquering Neptune, the god of the sea. It's a monument to Cosme Damián Churruca y Elorza who according to the <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosme_de_Churruca&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DChurruca%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3D6AO">translated version of his Spanish Wikipedia page</a> did some stuff relating to seafaring. =) Andy's going to love that one.
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The church that we didn't get to go into because it was too late. =(
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Andy decided that when we build our dream home, it will look like the first photo before. I have decided it will either look like the middle one or the the top floor and a half of the third one. Who do you think will win?
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-71380384783235681912008-09-10T04:09:00.005-05:002008-09-10T04:38:35.510-05:00Bilbao Lamp Posts 08-10-11-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
Bilbao had a LOT of different kinds of lamp posts ranging, like it's architecture, from the lovely and ornate to the ugly and modern. Some of these, such as the last three in the set below, don't even look like lamp posts, but Borja assures us they light up at night. I had wanted to go back to the second set in the evening, but forgot.
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The first two are from the river between the Guggenheim and the university, while the third is from an ugly modern building, which you can see in the background and the fourth is from the old port of Bilbao.
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This first lamp post is pretty cool, so definitely click on it to see more detail. The second is on the side of the church that we couldn't enter, because we arrived too late. And I don't remember where the last one was taken. =)
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-67967236291092381832008-09-09T09:15:00.002-05:002008-09-09T09:18:22.470-05:00King of CheeseGouda is by far the most popular cheese in Holland. This is understandable since Gouda is a town in Holland and that's where it comes from. Unfortunately Gouda's popularity makes it the only sliced cheese available, which means that they only cheese I've had on my sandwiches for the last two months is Gouda. More than that, aside from some "Italian" cheese of unidentified type we found grated at the store, Gouda is the only cheese we've cooked with for the last two months. In honor of Gouda, King of Dutch Cheese, I wrote a story over at <a href="http://betwixtmineears.blogspot.com/2008/09/king-of-cheese.html">Betwixt Mine Ears</a>. I hope you enjoy. ;)Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-92019678426570256662008-09-08T05:47:00.003-05:002008-09-08T05:54:22.828-05:00Madrid Neat Buildings 08-08-10-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%;">
Madrid had lots of beautiful architecture, and you've already seen some, but here are a few other pictures we took. The first is just cool, the second has monkeys on top of it, and the third is the Madrid Bank or something. The last one is from the royal garden and is called the Crystal Palace. It's basically a giant greenhouse without plants. 0=)
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That wraps up the photos from Madrid. Stay tuned for Bilbao!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-65442709960892125182008-09-07T06:53:00.006-05:002008-09-07T07:24:51.307-05:00Madrid Lamp Posts 08-08-10-08<div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 100%;">
Most of Madrid's lamp posts were pretty much the same, so there's not much variety. In fact, you've already seen at least one of these from the Plaza Mayor.
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More lamp posts!
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Royal lamp posts!
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-26477563581130722962008-09-03T06:23:00.004-05:002008-09-03T06:31:07.731-05:00Shaving Cream<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqCvH2mS_18I_6m2c4arrcOwPol0XYf3d4_bYG3B_BQbFA-uyL9qXWmqaCRmLMn4HGrbO4ls3x_gShzvuQU-E0KZd_XCl_dK5l6OSNMj09p59pS69uCW6DszdtVh-f5N885AXP3J01nM/s1600-h/DSC01796.JPG"><img style="float:right; border: solid 1px #000; margin-left: 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqCvH2mS_18I_6m2c4arrcOwPol0XYf3d4_bYG3B_BQbFA-uyL9qXWmqaCRmLMn4HGrbO4ls3x_gShzvuQU-E0KZd_XCl_dK5l6OSNMj09p59pS69uCW6DszdtVh-f5N885AXP3J01nM/s200/DSC01796.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241755612070567442" /></a>Andy and I are almost out of shaving cream, so I decided to buy some more. Since we're not here for long, we're just sharing a men's gel. I always buy the Gillette gel back home, and since that's what they have here, that's what I went for. Imagine my surprise when instead of a gel that I would have to lather myself, out comes pre-lathered shaving cream! I've never seen Gillette cream that wasn't gel in one of these bottles in the US, so I just picked the one that was cheapest and walked to the cash register. If only I'd been more careful, I might have noticed that not only does it say "mousse" on the front of the can, the little dollop of gel isn't a dollop of gel but is a dollop of lathered shaving cream!
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To top it all off, I'm really not certain if I'm supposed to shake it, since it sort of sputtered out of the can and that's what you do with the pre-lathered canisters in the States. On the other hand, it came out pretty much the way I would have expected it to had it been shaken. Needless to say, I'm a bit on the disappointed side, but I guess I'll make it through this can... How many more days until we go home??? ;)Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15428118500796072937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596088096657820985.post-61509195262594477862008-09-03T03:09:00.001-05:002008-09-03T03:38:16.130-05:00Madrid 08-10-08<div style="float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;">
We went to Mass at a parish recommended by Borja's aunt and mother as being a pretty one. It was pretty and empty! Usually when we arrive at Mass 15 minutes early, there are a few other people, and by 5 to, there are usually quite a few people, and by the time Mass starts, the church is as full as it's going to get. Well, I think all in all there might have been a whole 25 people there, including ourselves! We knew everyone had gone to the beach for the summer, so we should have expected an empty church, but we really weren't prepared for this! All in all, it was a nice Mass even though it was in Spanish, and I really don't know what the homily was about besides the barque of Peter.
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After Mass we headed to the ummm royal park, where the Spanish kings used to do their hunting. There's a painting in the Prado of one of the king's hunts, which is absolutely absurd - dogs and horses and stags everywhere as far as the eye can see! My best guess is that they brought in stags for the hunt to ensure that the king was indeed successful. All in all, the painting is rather bloody, and not especially pretty. The park, on the other hand, was quite lovely, and we took plenty of pictures, the first of which is our tour guide, Borja!
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Some of the trees were leaning like they might fall over any minute, so I had Andy take a picture. =)
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The last photo is of a big rectangular pool of water sitting in front of a big thing holding statues. (as if you couldn't tell) The funny thing is that the pool is not much bigger than what you can see in the photo, but there was actually a tour boat going around the silly thing with people on it! Not only that, there were row teams on it!
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Pretty flowers. I guess one of the few flowering plants that can survive the Madrid heat is the rose, so Andy took some pictures of them. =)
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Borja was quite excited to take us to see the "statue of Satan", and we were intrigued by the idea of such a "Catholic" country putting up a statue in honor of Satan. As you can see, the statue isn't so much in honor of Satan as the depiction of the unpleasantness of being a fallen angel. He doesn't look happy, and those monster things at the bottom don't look friendly.
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Aside from that, I don't know who these statues are of, but if I remember correctly, the horse one was on top of that big thing on the other side of the pool.
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