Norway: Fjords of Fun Part 2

Flåm

It only took 3 months, but I am finally finishing blogging about the rest of our Norway trip. After this, I'll update about our exciting winter months around Germany, our last trip to London and our plans for the next few months.

Norway: Fjords of Fun Part 1

Hellestylt

So, I am finally getting around to posting about our trip to Norway. Two weeks after getting home from Norway, I took the GRE which I had been anxiously studying for and now I've completed most of my graduate school applications. I submitted two out of three applications and had one interview. My final application should be completed within the next few weeks and I should receive a decision from two of the schools by February. Here is to hoping I get into grad school!

Ireland: Dublin, Belfast and Giant's Causeway

It's been a while since I've updated the blog. For several months, we mostly hung out around our town and patiently waited for the weather to warm up again. We planted flowers, bought bikes, pulled out our summer clothing and did just about everything we could to encourage spring to arrive. It finally did, and then we went on vacation to visit a still cold and rainy Ireland.

It stopped raining about a minute before this picture

Tulip Season in Holland: Amsterdam, Zaanse Schans, Voldendam and the Keukenhof gardens

Next on the blogging agenda is our trip to Holland for tulip season! Spring time is the peak of tourism for the Netherlands because of their world famous tulip fields and gardens. If you've scrolled through the travel boards of Pinterest, you've probably stumbled across at least one beautiful picture of a big wooden windmill surrounded by colorful fields striped with tulips as far as the eye can see. Of course, we had to be one of the millions worldwide who venture to Holland from mid-March to mid-May to check out the Keukenhof tulip gardens. We had a lot of fun, but I will say that it was a good reminder that when you're traveling, sometimes you have to accept that expectations do not equal reality.