Last weekend we had a Kappa Abroad Reunion in Amsterdam!!! It was so good to see all of the girls abroad (there’s 12 of us but only seven made it to AMS), especially one of my best and closest friends at CSU, Andrea Thompson. While we were there, we visited the Rijks Museum, which held a lot of Renaissance paintings, including a collection of dollhouses from the 1600’s (Nancy- you would love this, I definitely thought of you!) and some of Rembrandt’s work as well; we also went to the Van Gough Museum – not very many of Van Gough’s famous works as we imagined but it was still neat and it did have a few Monet’s too. Nicole and I barely squeezed in the Anne Frank House on our last day there between all the socializing we did, it was very neat but very much lingered with a solemn feel. I definitely fell in love with Amsterdam’s gothic and Renaissance inspired architecture. The “Red Light District” was – we’ll just say interesting. And it was so odd to see everyone just smoking joints in public… everywhere smelled of weed. The main event of the weekend though was a 30,000-person rave in Utrecht. It took place in the Jarburs event center (kind of like a convention center). Basically, we danced to crazy techno music for seven hours, when we finally left and caught the 6am train back to Amsterdam – it was a very long, but surprisingly very fun night!! Nicole and I developed a new love/appreciation for techno! The weekend was definitely a success, but I found it hard to say goodbye to my friends when it was time to go!
February 22 - 25, 2008
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