July 18th, 2012

Ann:

You will NEVER believe where we got to go to today! Here, I'll list the three places and then describe them, all in detail just for you!

Except… "you" is Nico, and no one else will ever read this…. Huh.

Amsterdam Historical Museum AKA- Historisch Museum

Reypenaer Cheese Tasting Rooms

Boom Chicago

I don't even have to say anything past that and it already sounds like a fun day, huh? We took a bus headed down to the museum, which is normally a bad idea for four demigods. But Percy and Annabeth figured we all could handle it for three hours.

The museum itself used to be an orphanage, which kinda made me a little bit sad, but I got over it. There were these amazing paintings, and artifacts from medieval times to the present, all to do with Amsterdam's history, culture, and tradition. It has three floors, and is all presented in a very cool way. There was also this interactive thing, where we could listen to all Amsterdam carillons. (A type of church bell type thing). Anyways, SO COOL.

After that, Annabeth and Percy said we wouldn't be having lunch, which freaking Nico and I out a lot. No lunch? Whaaaaaat? But, it all turned out good in the end. Because we went to Reypenaer Cheese Tasting Rooms!

Now this place is about a hundred years old, and obviously, they make cheese. For about an hour, we followed an expert cheese taster (Hahahahaha. The thought of being an expert cheese taster amuses me SO MUCH. That would be such a cool job), and got to basically fill up on cheese! It's all aged naturally. There were six types of cheese to try, but we were allowed to take as much as we wanted. Muahaha. There was also wine tasting, but you had to be sixteen or older to try it.

Boo. One year away.

So Annabeth and Percy had fun drinking a glass of wine while Nico and I ate cheese. (I'm totally not complaining though).

After that, we hung out at the hotel for a while, and to get all fancied up, since our last thing started at six thirty, but I guess we needed to be an hour early.

It was Boom Chicago! It's this acting/improv/video/music show, which was absolutely hilarious. The show was called "Can't Dutch This" which had supposedly had old material, along with new.

Doesn't matter. We had an amazing time. Then we had to drive.

Bye!

~Ann

July 19, 2012

Nico:

Today we woke up in an apartment room at the Leopold II Bed and Breakfast in Belgium. The apartment room had beds for me, Percy, Annabeth and…! Ann! We got to be in the same sort of room again! The rooms were really nice, and so was the house. We went down to breakfast and ate the best waffles that I have ever had!

But then we had to get in the car and drive 6.5 hours (Estimated: 7 hours) to Munich. Ann and I played I Spy, and Percy even joined in! We hit some traffic around Munich and Annabeth got super annoyed. Gods… she can be soooo annoy-… Wait. I'm not going to do that!

Then we went to stores and there saw sights to see. We went to the Odeons Square and had a snack and then we took a bus to this really old, cool building (because Percy's a wimp and didn't want to walk/crutch). It was called the Frauenkirche München. Annabeth was very impressed with the architecture… again… Later, after dinner we went to the Hofgarten, which is a garden with pathways which are very straight. In the middle is a… thing… called the Dianatemple. After dinner we went back to our separate hotel rooms and got all dolled up to see a play at the nearby theatre. Ann looked so beautiful. I didn't really see much of the play.

*Nico di Angelo

Yay! I caught up! Boo yah!

By the way, ALL of this is true. (At least, Ann's day is). I had to research and research and research. I even looked up the actual schedule of Boom Chicago and that was the show playing on July 18th.

So yeah.

Hope you enjoyed and PLEASE review. Thanks, ya'll.

~Ann