Maria's European Adventure: January 2007

Romania Bulgaria National Party!

Last night was the second national party hosted by Bulgaria and Romania. The night was full of food, drink and dancing and a n excellent time was had by all.

The cool kids who actually came the party: Katka, Yann, Monica and me

Yann and his ladies, Monica, Zeinab and Katka

The 24 Club: Louisa, me and Yann

There hasn't been a NAFTA picture for awhile

My blog stalker, Monica, Mathieu and me

Louisa, David and me

Julie, me and Charlotta

Me, my blog stalker, Evie and Mathieu

Royals and Rebels

Part of College life is the National parties. The first was one last night, The UK, Ireland and Commonwealth party. There was a week of festivities leading up to the big party including a pub quiz and Bollywood movie night.

Being as the theme to the national party was "Royals and Rebels" I decided to embrace my American-ness and go as Martha Washington with Yannick as my husband and first President of the USA, George Washington. I mean, who is a bigger rebel than George Washington who fought for and won independence from the British? So here Yannick and I are in all of our 1776 glory.

Here Fredrick and me are dancing a tradition Scottish dance. We failed miserably but at least we tried.

Yann and I, however, got the hang of it pretty well.

George and Martha getting their Scottish dance on.

Martha and Abdul, the Indian prince

George, Martha and Oliver, aka the Boston Tea Party

Lord Lee-Olhsson and George Washington

Me and Fred dancin'!

Yann and Kristina

Ben and me

Fred, Muxtar and me

Katka and Yann

¡Palomas para todos!

Monica was very kind and brought various Mexican foodstuffs back to Bruges. She was oh so kind and cooked us a lovely meal of enchiladas con mole with refried beans and quesadillas!

The wonderful chef and her delicious creation!

AMERICA!

I had a lovely two weeks at home in Maryland with a trip to Philly and Pgh with Chris. It was super nice seeing my family and eating burritos (including one of the breakfast variety). I got to see (almost) everyone I wanted to and it was really nice sitting and not doing anything. I caught up on my trash American TV and enjoyed the plethora of junk food America has to offer.

Chris came to Maryland for one night then it was off to Philadelphia for New Years and a really nice visit with Liz and Michael. I had been to Philly once before but never got to do the touristy things. This time around I made sure to see the Liberty Bell. No one was particularly enthused about going to see this great monument of American history but Chris was kind enough to accompany me.

However, once arriving at the location of the Liberty Bell we discovered it was closed. Fortunately you can still see it from outside but not the crack! So this a slightly blurry crack-less Liberty Bell. But any Liberty Bell is better than no Liberty Bell!