See Hear Speak No Evil

This is the first post any of the staff at SHSNE have ever written to ask our dear readers to delurk.

You don’t actually have to… I just have a few questions.

1. Why do you read our blog?
2. How did you find our blog?
3. What are you wearing?

You all think I am kidding about #3. If only you knew…

I also want to know if you want a link on our blogroll. Go ahead and check our blogroll as well to make sure your on there. If your not… just leave a comment and I’ll put you up.

Thank you for reading our blog! We love you all.

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There really is no plan here. I love Belgium beer and chocolate…

Anyone?

Any ideas?

We may just stop and get off the train so we can say we were there. Oh, and to buy some beer and chocolate.

Anyone?

Then again… Al may have an ide on this one.

Tonight I watched Samantha Brown from the travel channel talk about Amsterdam. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to go there. The only place she didn’t mention that we are planning on going is the Heineken Factory.

Al is going to love this city more than she realizes. Bikes are everywhere. They happen to be the best choice of transportation in the city. Most hotels even rent them for not that much I was told. What “not that much” is… I am not sure as of now.

Here are some of the places we are planning on visiting:

• HEINEKIN FACTORY (Beer tasting at the end of the tour! Why wouldn’t we go?)
• VAN GOGH MUSEUM (He cut of his ear! Plus he thought he sucked. )
• ANNE FRANK HOUSE (To make us humble. Heineken Factory tour may be AFTER this tour.)
• “COFFEE HOUSE” (If it is legal, does it count if you inhale? Poor Al has to go with ME there.)
• RED LIGHT DISTRICT (To look for a new job for Al.)

Now I need your input. Have any of you been to Amsterdam? Please give me any pointers or info I might need.

I have had many requests for information about the trip Al and I are taking to Europe. We are both super excited, and in the final planning portion of the trip.

I figure I would post about it in a series of posts. This will let me get comments from all of you about the various places we are going. I really want you to let me know if you have been to any of these places. I need details. I need advice. I need to know where to buy beer!

September 7th we will fly far far away to enjoy 16 days of vacation!

Yes, 16 days!!!

My poor husband and kids. This gives me an entire 2 weeks to eat, drink and be merry. I also get 2 days to fly to and from Europe. I plan on eating, drinking and being merry this portion of the trip as well. It will just be slightly lame as it will be on a plane.

We fly into Amsterdam!

Amsterdam - The Netherlands (2 days)
Bruges (maybe) - Belgium (1 day)
Paris - France (4 days)
Dover - England (1 day)
London - England (3 days)
Bath/Stonehenge - England (1 day)
Edinburgh - Scotland (2 days)

We fly out of Edinburgh! (On Jess’ birthday fyi. I am planning on bringing her back a kick ass bday present.)

So there you have it. That is the plan. It will probably change a bit depending on what we finally decide to do. We need to book some hotels, but our flight is already booked. I can’t wait to tell you about everything we are already planning on doing.

Happy Birthday Trent!

If only I could have got video of my daughter doing her best “Trent” impression… Great idea for another post actually. HEHE. Hope your day is great and that you get to drink tons of beer.

I may even buy you a beer… if your nice.