Amsterdam

After a night in Brussels,  we hopped on a train to Amsterdam. We love love loved Amsterdam! Why is the world so incredible? I will never have the chance to experience it all!

We explored, had the best Pancakes of my entire life, saw the floating flower market, took the obligatory tourist photo in the I Amsterdam sign and just wandered a lot.

The second day we visited the Anne frank house. It is hard to describe such a sad experience. The place was much bigger than I imagined but still a horrific event. A definite must see in your life time. 

We went to breakfast at the pancake bakery because it was recommended over and over and after our pancakes the night before, I was not impressed. Skip it and eat all of your pancakes at pancakes! Amsterdam- way better. After that we took a dreamy canal tour. The architecture is incredible and it was a fun way to see the city. Plus there were only two other people on our boat. 

We wandered around some more and decided to finally try the much talked about Winkel 43 for some apple pie. Everyone says it is the best apple pie in the entire world and they are correct. It is not traditional apple pie but it was so good we went back a second time. 

Our last day we went to a windmill and wandered around dam square.

Amsterdam is a such a unique city. Between all the bikes, smoke coffee shops, stench of weed everywhere and friendliest people ever, I can definitely say Amsterdam is a hard city to top.

Side note: the Amsterdam airport is by far the most efficient airport I have ever been to. 

 the cutest red shuttered buildings

we did it!!

We Graduated!
I have been dreaming about the day I would write this post for a loong time. You see, I never really wanted to go to "real" college (a university). I opted for hair school instead. Well, turned out I did not really love doing hair in a salon after school either. I went on a mission and knew when I came home that I needed to finally go to "real" school. I gave myself 3 years to finish.

And guess what?!?

I did it. I graduated with my husband.

As excited as I am to graduate, I am also pretty sad. I love this University more than anything. I have loved being involved in everything possible and while I may not be the most traditional student, I am so happy to have completed this.

I get down on myself a lot because most of my friends graduated from college 4+ years ago, but then I realize how many things I have accomplished in my life and realize the path I took led me to my husband and he is the best part of my life.

Our families got together and we had dinner at my parents house. David's dad got us an ice cream cake and we all just hung out and spent the day getting ready for our European adventure we were going on the next day.

newsies!

Let's interrupt Europe for a minute to talk about NEWSIES! I have seen many Broadway shows (not traveling, actual Broadway in New York), but Newsies is definitely my favorite. The combination of the catchy music, incredible choreography and fun story gets me every time. I love it. I love it so much I saw it twice in New York. When I heard they were traveling to Salt Lake, I knew that would be a show we would have to go to.

It did not disappoint. We may have had to miss class for a night, but it was completely worth it. We LOVE Newsies. 

European Adventure Part 3

Paris-> Brussels

This is a baby post because we had less than 24 hours in this city but Amsterdam was so wonderful it deserves a post of its own.

We hopped on a train to Brussels and fell in love with this city.

Brussels was incredible. I had heard so many negative things about it when planning locations for this trip and almost didn't go but I am so glad we did. It was gorgeous and the architecture was amazing. What a fantastic city. It was very interesting to see how they were remembering the attacks that happened not so long ago. With Shrines set out in front of churches among many other things. You could just tell the city was United.

 We explored the grand place and a bunch of other unique building as well as the man skin de pis.

We had a waffle.. Or two, or three and they were seriously the best of my life. Waffle love has nothing on the real thing. 

We tried Belgian chocolate, which was also easily the best chocolate I have ever tried and we wandered some more. We had 12 hours in Brussels and felt it was ample time to explore.

I included this picture because David could tell I was tired of carrying my bag and walking and he so kindly took it. 

European Adventure part 2

London-> Paris

After our time in London Town we had to catch a train to Paris. The train was delayed and it was pouring rain when we arrived to we quickly found food and slept. That rushed meal actually turned out to be one of the best meals of our entire trip.

Lets just go ahead and excuse my poor photography for the rest of these posts.

We got super lucky and were upgraded to this massive room with two bedrooms where we were greeted with a gorgeous view of the twinkling Eiffel Tower. The next morning we headed to Disneyland!

 The first time I went to Disneyland Paris was kind of awful. It was fun but was so busy and just blah. This time was awesome! It wasn't busy. We rarely waited. It was just so much fun. It poured rain almost the whole day but we still loved it.

There were so many random characters there not found in the parks in the states. Like Abu, and baloo also showed up in the parade as well as the lion king. We loved it.

European Adventure part 1

6 airplanes, 3 trains, countless public transportation rides, and another epic Price vacation under our belt! 

David and I graduated and to celebrate we originally were going to do an epic east coast road trip but a trip to Europe seemed more appropriate. When we first started dating we both had these huge long lists of places we wanted to travel to and knew that traveling would be a priority in our marriage. We make a lot of sacrifices in order to save the money to do so. Europe was a dream and we loved every minute of it (well almost every minute).

 We took a flight to lax landed at 7 am and had a layover until 7:45 that night so what do you do when you have 12 hours in California other than Disneyland... Go checkout the new Harry Potter world. 

 We had a fun day and loved Harry Potter land, universal studios on the other hand was not that impressive.

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