July 16th

Ann:

Percy and Annabeth declared today to be a rest day. So we stayed in the hotel pretty much all day, except for lunch, and dinner.

We watched movies, and to keep the tradition going, (with Greek subtitles!)

Because of... Yeah... Nico and I sat next to each other on the couch, hardly touching at the beginning of the movie. But near the end, we were holding hands and I had my head on his shoulder.

So, relief.

Since it was a rest day, nothing really exciting happened today.

I've decided to write a small list to make up for it.

Top Five Things I Never Ever Want to Do:
1. Get drunk
2. Climb a mountain
3. Get fat
4. Be alone
5. Sky dive

Bye!

~Ann

July 17, 2012

Nico:

Dear Kitty,

It's our first day in Amsterdam. Woo Hoo! There are a LOT of tulips here!

Annabeth had to drive today, because Percy hurt his left foot. After the whole ordeal at the castle we decided to get him crutches so that he could walk around Europe with us for the time it takes him to heal. With him out of the driver's seat we found out his choice selection of music and that Annabeth drives a lot more… Annabeth-ly. It was estimated that the car ride would 5.5 hours. After our 4-hour car ride, we went and got lunch, since it was about 12:30. Then we walked to the Dam Square (so many jokes waiting to happen) and we sat and ate our sandwiched near a statue.

Percy and Annabeth were saying, "Let's go sit on that Dam ledge!"

"Ow! I sat on a Dam rock."

"Gonna' eat this Dam sandwich."

"Zoë Nightshade… We miss you." Percy sighed.

I had no idea who Zoë Nightshade was and when I asked, Annabeth replied, "Though hath never met thy?" And she and Percy cracked up again.

Apparently Zoë Nightshade is an inside joke. But the name sounded familiar. I just couldn't remember why.

Annabeth was pretty impressed with the architecture of this building by the Dam Square called the Palace on the Dam. She began babbling in math and architecture language, and it all hurt my head so much that I just tuned out. It was once a Palace, but now it's just a government type building. Annabeth had to be literally dragged away from it, because she wanted to look some more, but we were out of time. Our tour was going to start soon and we still had to walk to get there.

After lunch we walked, and Percy crutched, 1.5 km (Those Europeans are converting me! Hah. Conversion pun…) to the Ann Frank House. We had to read it in English last year, but I didn't really get much out of it other than Nazis are bad and puberty happens. But when we went inside the "house" everything actually sank in. There was the office in the lover level, then we opened the bookshelf to find a door and stairs. The door was barely tall enough for me, and Percy and Annabeth had to duck. Their whole house was about as big as our hotel room, maybe a little bigger. It was divided by small walls. The beds in rooms were cramped together. The bathroom was kind of gross and the toilet was tiny. You would have to have pretty good aim to pee in that thing…

We were looking at the kitchen when it hit me. Zoë Nightshade. A Huntress of Artemis. Like Bianca. I wasn't sure what to think or do, so I pretended to look at stuff, and successfully knocked a chair over. I decided to get answers, rather than causing more damage.

"Uh… Percy?"

"Yes Nico?" He asked without turning around.

"Was Zoë Nightshade… well… was there any chance that she was a Huntress of Artemis. Like Bianca?"

He turned around and looked at me like I was going to have a freak attack or something. "Yes… She was Artemis' lieutenant when your sister joined the hunt."

I nodded. "But she died, didn't she…"

Percy got that far off look that he gets way too often. "'And one shall perish by a parent's hand…'"

"What?"

Percy snapped back to life. "Oh. Nothing… prophesy… Uh, yeah. She died fighting… a Titan and she… uh yeah… died. Annabeth never knew her or Bianca."

"Then how…"

"Do we have inside jokes about her?" Percy finished for me, "We told her about Zoë and she thought that the Dam thing was hilarious. Today was the perfect time to use it."

"And what about the 'Thoughest thy…' Thing?"

"Zoë still talked like Shakespeare and the whole journey we were trying to teach her how to talk normally. Annabeth found that funny too. She also may have met Zoë before the quest too, I'm not sure. I've never asked, but I'm not going to either."

After the Anne Frank experience, we walked/limped down the street to the head of a canal. There are lots of those in Amsterdam, but it was really pretty because it was just getting late and the sun was going down. Percy bought a yellow tulip for Annabeth and I got a blue one, because when do you see a blue tulip? We stayed there for a while and then walked all the way back to the hotel. We were pretty beat after that, and Percy was pretty sore (And I know because I had to listen to him complain AND find him Advil). I didn't even have time to take a shower or unpack or take off my street clothes or write this (I'm writing at breakfast today's tomorrow, actually… if that makes sense…) before I passed out. On top of the covers too. Luckily it was hot.

Yours,

Nico Di Angelo*

*cackles* Here is what April wrote...

A/N: Hey guys! Today was my last day writing before I go on tour in Europe, actually. Ann will be posting my days until she has to leave too. I pre-wrote my days for when I'm gone, so it's still my writing, just it's Ann who's posting and writing the Author's Notes. There will be about four days where no one writes, because Ann will be gone too, so when I get back I'll post two a day until we're caught up. But while I'm gone I will be checking up on reviews, so please continue to write them! I'll see you in 10 days!

~April

In other words... lazy updater is in charge of everything! Yay! I'm already behind... *sigh* Sorry. I'll try and catch up tommorrow. I miss April... I'm also VERY jealous of April. I mean... everybody but me is in Europe. Ann and Nico and Annabeth and Percy and April and another one of my friends are all in Europe right now and it's NOT FAIR!

:(

Review please. It'll make me feel better.

~Ann