Home again...

Wow...home has been...interesting....
I have done nothing but smoke, sleep, unpack, eat, and hang with Michael.
I hung out with Nick and Nate! They have a really cool new place! I got to see Lew and Jen! Lew made an amazing dinner. I love my girls!
And Lew, Mike, and I got an apt. on Sheffield and Webster...its amazing.
Picking up Steve on Sunday...

Hooters and Home

I have arrived back in the Flo...too tired to think...
I went to Hooters with my mom and some waitress gave me her number...
America...

I did it...

I made it to my second to last night in Europe without throwing up once...and then...
I went to the Clockhouse and took shots with Gert-Jan...
I guess it wouldn't have been a good trip without at least one good vom...

2 More Days...

I have changed my flight, and I will be leaving 5 days earlier than expected...I must say...I am thrilled...
I am ready for home...I do not think there is anything else I can get from this trip...

Europe has been life-changing...

Back to the States on 12.11.2008

xoxo

Paris Love

...We missed our train on Thursday night. I was devastated...But I think that is what happens when you go into something with such high expectations...Thalys put us up in a hotel, and we made it to Paris on Friday by around 9:00...Thankfully, Steven wasn't too upset.

Paris was amazing, I really can't even talk about it. Especially because I still miss it so much. Some highlights...
Stealing from Sacre Couer
Pussy's
Bread and Cheese and Wine-a lot of it
Running into Stefane at a random bar
Climbing the Arc
Picnic at Place du Concord
Dinner at L'Entrecote
Walking to the Eiffel Tower, avoiding the armies, and kissing
Jumping on a bed in our undies
Reading and Napping in bed
Getting 45 euro back from our cunt hotel guy
Cardi Parties
Getting Oscar Wilde drunk
Duck, Pepper Steak, and long walks...

Sex wasn't bad either...
Je t'aime Steven

Do you think they will mind that we used their maids....A Parisian Circus...

...I'm like the ringleader...
Well, I am sitting in an empty institute...Just finished packing all of my stuff...I am going to spend my last day in Europe in Brussels tomorrow, hopefully getting some shopping done.
The past week has been insane....
Mattie arrive on Sunday and we went out to a club called You. Then we went to two other clubs, and ended up getting a hotel in Brussels. I can't even begin to describe how crazy of a night this was. We danced...we drank...we met an amazing couple and a Moroccan who took us around. It was by far the most outrageous night in Europe...We didn't go to bed until around 8:30am. The boys in Brussels are certainly living it up...And yes, we turned down the liquid ecstasy...
"Excuse me, m'am...We found your son's dead body in a gay bar in Brussels. You will need to come identify".
On Monday, we went out to the Clockouse and met our new best friend Gert-Jan, or Euheum, I am still not really sure. After another insane night out that last until 5:00, I woke up on Tuesday and finished my last two days of work at the European Parliament. Although Tuesday was dreadful (thank you Erin and your makeshift train schedule ;) ), Wednesday was probably the best. I got an amazing review from Renatka and I was able to write a written explanation of the EPP's vote on a report on Women in the Balkans. I had such a sad goodbye from my office. I really really did cherish the internship.
Thursday was so stressful...packing...writing papers...saying goodbye...It was all so rushed...But I love my girls on this trip, they were amazing. Erin, Megan, Joyce, Jess, and Eva...You guys really are the bomb...I will never forget our travels, our meals, or nights in Leuven, or mornings at work...Nothing...We truly lived and loved enough here in Leuven for a lifetime...
After Matt and I said our goodbyes and scrambled to make our Paris train...disaster...

Happy Late Thanksgiving...

I am thankful for my life-changing trip in Europe...
I am thankful to have spent so much time with my family in Paris and Brussels...
I can't wait to send my mom back to Paris on my own dollar...
And I am thankful for the last year+ that I have had with Steven...