Monday, January 6, 2014

New Year, New blog

So this blog has been on hiatus lately. I been busy traveling for 2 weeks and now I am exhausted, but I am glad to be back in Enschede. I enjoy the traveling but I also miss the kids.

I was in Denmark for about a week and it was very nice getting to meet my cousins, uncle and aunt for the first time. And can I say "Vietnamese" traditional food is amazing. I miss eating "pho" and all the other good food. It was very nice to be spoil for a week with awesome food. Then after that week was over I took a bus from Hamburg, Germany to Budapest, Hungary. It was a 20 hour trip (the bus was not comfy to sleep in)

Budapest was a amazing and it starting to get me interested about the history of Eastern Europe. Hungary government is still very young like most of other Eastern European countries. There democratic government is only 25 years old. I also met some awesome people there even some Americans. After ringing in the new year in Budapest, it was time to head to Antwerp. I took a train to Munich and spent the night there in a hostel then was about to carpool with another person to Bonn which was close to Koln so I could catch my train to Belgium.

Getting to Antwerp was a pain. When I got into Leuven, the station was shut down due to the storm and lightning hitting something there. Of course I was not use to hearing french, I had no idea what was going on. So after taking a bus to another town, I was finally on the train to Antwerp. I was very exhausted by that point. Antwerp is very nice and pretty. I rode the ferris wheel again and I was not as scared as the first time (when I was at ocean/worlds of fun). And I also got a chance to ice skate (that has been a while.) I didn't take a lot of picture in Antwerp.
The statue explaining how the city got their name

The view from the ferris wheel

I met Alex in Budapest and saw her again in Antwerpen. She is american



So now I am back and back to work and lots of laundry to do. No more big trips until my next holiday which is the end of February.