An Adventure

Yesterday I went on an adventure with my fellow exchangers Aislinn and Keely. We went to Maastricht in the Netherlands, which is right next to the border of Belgium.

First off, I'll tell you a kind of freaky story about what happened at the Liège train station. We got to where our train would be, and we noticed that there were two bags underneath us and they weren't ours. We were like, oh well, that's weird, and didn't think anything of it. About seven minutes pass by, and I look over and see the bags on a girl's arm. None of us remember her coming over to get them. They were just not beneath us anymore and we were just so confused. We concluded that she was a wizard.

We arrive in Visé, the border town, and have an hour and a half until the next train because we have to buy tickets. We end up going to a bar and drinking coffee. That's definitely one thing I'm going to miss: just going into a bar. We weren't drinking alcohol, we were just chilling. Here, you always have to have reservations to go to restaurants so no one eats out too much, so usually if you want something casual to eat you go to a street vendor, and if you just want some coffee, you go to a bar. It was just a very casual environment, and since it was early, there were about six other people in there. It was really chill and something I'm definitely going to miss.

When we reach Maastricht, we had no idea what we were going to do, and none of us knew what there *was* to do, so we just decided that as long as we didn't make too many turns we would be okay. We ended up running into a really neat market that sold mostly vintage items, such as tea pots, books, rosaries, and just random nick-nacks. We really lucked out because we didn't know what we were actually going to do there, and there it was, as if the town knew we were coming. After this, we found a Subway and just had to eat there because we all missed Subway. It was amazing.

We then wandered on a bridge and ran into a shopping district of sorts. We putzed around there for the rest of our stay, and I bought a really cute jacket, and oohed and ahhed over an Apple store. Keely has a picture of me looking so excited to see one, and I'll post it when she adds it on her facebook.

Going back to the train station, I made my favorite discovery: Dr. Pepper. I honest to goodness almost cried I was so excited to see it, and yelled at Aislinn across the store to come and check it out with me. It was truly amazing. I just took my first sip of it, and even the smell brought back so many memories that I didn't even know I still had.

The rest will be on Flickr hopefully in the next couple of days.

Love always,

Alyce