Relief

I found the Laundromat! woot woot! PARTAY! Never thought it'd be that exciting. But then again there's nothing more relieving than knowing you'll have clean underwear in the morning when faced with the prospect of not! That being said I must admit once again that I'm a lazy American who's spoiled by the use of his car. It was way shorter of a walk than I thought and that's probably the main reason I got lost in the first place. Everything in Europe is tiny . I was riding on the train on the way to Amsterdam last weekend and I noticed that there would be all kinds of space and farmland between towns and then when you get into the town everything is crammed together as if you are in a big city again... except there's not as many buildings.

That and the forests are just friggen WRONG! the first forest I saw just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't really know why, just that it wasn't right; it wasn't like a forest should be. After a few small wooden areas passed I realized it was because all of the forests were planted, and the first growth trees had been planted in straight lines. Pathetic. sorry, and disgusting. The smaller trees around them were filling in the areas with a more natural random spacing, but the main growth was just... ugh, made me kinda sick.

Amsterdam was cool. It was old, and it was Dutch. I saw the palace, and I saw a really old section of town and then had some beer and a really good Pizza and then had to head back to Eindhoven again. My tour guide was feeling sick for some reason so she needed to head home to bed and I didn't want to get lost in Amsterdam by myself. That sounds like it wasn't much, but keep in mind that this is Europe and food and beer don't go down fast. I figured I'd have another chance, so why not head home and get some rest. No, I didn't see the redlight district. I didn't want to be turned off of sex for the rest of my life thank you very much.

Sunday I went to Ede (pronounced aye-deh) and saw Andrew Shearman and David Fredrickzs. It was really good to see them. I went to David's church, Soma, and then went to his home with Andrew and the fam and ate Shrimp for lunch! It was great! Especially seeing Andrew again, I love that guy! If you wanna read a real good blog go to AndrewShearman.com. Then I hung out with this other group of twenty-somes and watched Oceans Eleven after a great dinner of fries (which they actually had Ketchup for) and these meaty things that remind me of polish hot-dogs. the main course was really the fries though, and I was the only one eating them without a fork! The Husband of the house, Bruce, happily ate with his hands with me just so I wouldn't be the only one. I think he just liked using his hands though. :) Anything to give your wife something to be embarrassed about right? it's good for them.

So back to the question about how long I'll be staying. well, don't know yet. there's been some developments with my Visa not being applied for, so without that I'll be forced to stop working at four weeks. But there's still a chance we'll decide to have me stay. I really don't feel like it's gonna happen though... we'll see!