We have been up to so much exciting stuff we’ve forgotten to post to this blog, sorry, guys!

Here’s a quick summary of what we’ve done:

• Art and Cafes in Utrecht
• A trip to the beach
• A weeked in Brugge, Belgum
• More lounging, etc in Utrecht (you may think that’s a bad excuse for failing to post. no comment)
• Flu, vomiting, headaches, immobility
• Road trip to Berlin

And since we leave tomorrow, we’re not likely to do a ton more, but we intend to climb the Dom in Utrecht. Which, after uploading photos, I need to set out to go do. Hopefully we’ll get some more detailed stories up here. In the meantime, here’s a description of a special birthday treat I had:

Here’s a little story about a special birthday treat that happened. The day of my birthday was spent in large part driving on a road trip. I was just fine with that seeing as how the trip was to Berlin. Part of the way into Germany the driver got tired of driving and I offered to do some. I was excited to drive on the autobahn and didn’t know when I’d have another opportunity. It was going fine, and it was fun. The car wasn’t thrilled with the speed we were going, but plenty of cars were zipping past me.

I then, in a moment of cheeziness (which I felt allowed to have, as it was my birthday) I requested that my friend who was DJing put on Kraftwerk. Autobahn, naturally. For maybe a minute and a half I was basking in the perfectness of careening along the listing to a song I love driving on its namesake. It was about that long before we hit traffic and came to a dead stop. For the next two hours we were in painfully slow stop and go traffic, utterly obligerating my romantic ideals of the autobahn, to an ironic soundtrack.

The experience, however, was a very good one. When we first hit the traffic I popped the door open and touched the famed highway with my hand. The irony of the situation was glorious, and I completely appreciated it. It was an excellent birthday treat.