so italy was so fantastic. i stayed at fulvio's until this morning. we did a not so traditional thanksgiving dinner on thursday - we ate spaghetti carbonara and i made home made pumpkin pie. the pie was a little sketchy but it just needed to cool a bit before we ate it. so yummy! andrea and i went grocery shopping together in the morning for all the stuff we needed and it was fun. he was trying to make me buy milk from the shelf that wasn't refrigerated. totally gross! he is such a goof ball! we found a good netherlands book for me for my departure to amsterdam tomorrow. and of course, he got all excited when he saw mcdonalds but i told him no mcdonalds mangia!!!
i am so random - at 1am thursday morning i decided i wanted to go to brussels to see interpol since it was so close to amsterdam. it was killing me so i just shoved all my plans back by a day. it ended up being cheaper to fly to brussels anyway. however - a travel tip for those who may go abroad - the luggage limits are very different in europe vs. the states. so i had a bit of a panic having to unload a lot of my stuff/sending it back home from italy. oh well, now i know!
brussels is a bit bland (not too much going on) but the show was so utterly fantastic tonight. paul told us we were a "fucking great" crowd and they actually came out and did a 2nd encore (which they don't typically do at all!) it was so fantastic! it would have been perfect had they played specialist but i think i probably would have had a coronary from the sheer excitement i would have been experiencing.
harley was so nice tonight, too (not that he isn't always an amazingly kind person!) he let me hang out with him, lucas and tim in the sound/light board area. which was so nice because the place was huge and the view was absolutely brilliant from that spot. lucas was a nice little dude who does the lighting and i had met tim in vegas - he helps harley with sound.
i was a little nervous getting around belgium (even though there are very convenient trams all over). i think it's because i'm really terrible when it comes to speaking french. i get so intimidated because everytime i've been to france the frenchies are always kind of mean to me - regardless of whether i'm attempting french or speaking english. but there was the nicest lady who told me when my stop was and then i just followed the rest of the kids to the show. the belgian people have all be so nice, it's been great :)
ok so the totally scary thing - i was actually supposed to be on that antarctic cruise ship that is sinking!!!! i had initially signed up for the cruise that was out there now but they were going to charge me close to $3000 more to go in november vs. december. so i ended up changing the date to december. i still can't believe it! i was so relieved to hear that all the people got off the boat safely. however, even if the cruise does stay on for december, i'm a little scared to go. obviously they are working on getting things resolved with the existing passengers but they don't know what's going to happen with my cruise or all the 2008 scheduled antarctic cruise. i guess i'll just have to wait and see... a bit of a creepy sidenote - the 2 nights before that boat hit the iceberg i had these dreams that i was on the boat but that it had hit something and i was drowning. just floating down further and further in to the sea. and the whole time the song stella was a diver and she was always down by interpol was just on repeat in my dream. although i just kept floating down and drowning. it was almost like the whole dream was on repeat or something. really strange!
so that's about it for now. tomorrow i check in to my princess "residence" and i have a night tour of amsterdam in the red light district. it's going to be so cheeky, i can't wait!
MWAH!
tiff
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