yesterday was queens day, a public holiday. on sunday night, queens night the whole of the netherlands is in party mode and coated in orange. Wouter and i went to Utrecht, about an hour on the train. At night the streets are lined with flea markets and games few can win. Wouter tried one where you try to eat three maria cookies in one minute. looks pretty easy but apparently qutie dry hehe. There were people everywhere and it was pretty tricky getting into bars. Utrecht is so picturesque with the canals and old buildings and pavement streets. It's a bit tricky when we're with a group because everyone is speaking dutch so most of the time i have no idea what people are talking about. Although it's cool to watch people's manerisms and such. They have qutie some nice beers here, i tried a cherry beer which sounds gross but is really good. The building we are living in is a student house with about 20 rooms and they buy bulk beer when it is on sale so it ends up being about 25 cents each, and then you can recycle the bottles for 10 cents each, so cheap!

I have been cycling heaps, it's so much fun. Until today i have been cylcing with wouter who knows his way around but today he is working at little mountain so i hope i dont get lost! the streets are not really planned out like halifax or sydney, and a lot of the buildings look very similar. On the weekend we painted our bikes. Becuase bikes get stolen a lot here, painting them makes them a little less appealing. I painted the body of mine a light blue colour and wouter painted his body bright red and then we'll switch colours for the guards over the wheels. We also got some glitter paint to go on top :)

This afternoon i am going to visit the van abbe, which is the museum of modern art here in eindhoven. My printed matter teacher from NSCAD lent then some a piece of art recently so i'm going to drop his name and see if i can get some work there.

This weekend we're going to Limburg, where wouter's parents live, to meet them.