I am sure most of you have come to rely on the semi weekly updates of our life in Europe, that’s why I can understand if some of you are upset with the lack of communication from your friend across the pond. Please forgive me friends for its been 16 days since I last bloged.
I have a lot to say so go grab your favorite refreshment and get comfortable because this one might be a long one.
You might remember our last blog ”Its all a lie” that told about our factious trip to Athens. After all that excitement we had from that fake trip we had to take some time off from traveling to hang out in Berlin (Real reason was because we ran out of money). You might be wondering what one does while one is hanging out in Berlin in February. Well for those of you that where wondering that question fortunately you have a friend that has been in Berlin during February and I will fill you in. I have been keeping busy trying to get so far ahead in school that I can basically take the month of March off of school so that we can travel to Croatia and I can hang out with my brother in Prague, Frankfurt, and Berlin. The other thing I have been doing is
hanging out with Aleena (the two year old that I get to hang out with twice a week).
I have a lot to say so go grab your favorite refreshment and get comfortable because this one might be a long one.
You might remember our last blog ”Its all a lie” that told about our factious trip to Athens. After all that excitement we had from that fake trip we had to take some time off from traveling to hang out in Berlin (Real reason was because we ran out of money). You might be wondering what one does while one is hanging out in Berlin in February. Well for those of you that where wondering that question fortunately you have a friend that has been in Berlin during February and I will fill you in. I have been keeping busy trying to get so far ahead in school that I can basically take the month of March off of school so that we can travel to Croatia and I can hang out with my brother in Prague, Frankfurt, and Berlin. The other thing I have been doing is
hanging out with Aleena (the two year old that I get to hang out with twice a week). I have also tried and get to the climbing gym 3-4 times a week so that I am in some kind of shape for my upcoming trip to Croatia. I am pretty excited about this trip. I have been climbing with this 18 year old kid from Ecuador that climbs really hard. He is an exchange student in Berlin for a year. I was able to talk him into joining us in Croatia for a week so we can get some climbing done. There is an entire national park that’s set up for sport climbing; we are talking 1,000 foot limestone routes that are right at the grade I am climbing at right now.
The last thing I have been doing is kicking butt at cribbage. For those of you not in the know; cribbage is a card game that’s great for passing long winter nights in Berlin. There are about 5-7 of us that play regularly; recently we had the first annual Z-Dorf (the town we live in) cribbage tournament. While I was robbed of the overall victory I will say that I did have the victory of my young cribbage life when I handedly beat our friends Bob and Katy Williams. This was a particularly monumental win because they taught me how to play, and in turn I have now taught them how to loose.
The other thing that has helped us pass this month of gray is the two friends that came to visit. The first one was our old roommate Mari-Jane who is living in Scotland for a year. She shot over for a five day trip; it really helped to break up the monotony of the weeks. It was really great to see her again and we are excited that she might move back into our house when we get back to the states. The second friend that was a bit of a surprise was Erin’s long time friend Lori from Minnesota.
She emailed a week or two ago and said she was coming on the 18th we told her that if she was coming then she had to go to Venice (as in Italy) with us for the night of the 23rd. It was not to hard to twist her arm so at 5:30am on the 23rd we met our friends Andy and Amanda to go to our local Flughafen (German word for airport). We landed in a foggy Venice about 9:30 and set off to find some Pizza, Gondolas, wine, and a good time. Being Italy finding those thing 
4 things did not prove to be very hard, and unfortunately finding the wine proved a little to easy, because some of us woke up on Sunday with their only shirt wine stained, an upset stomach, and a headache.
So what’s next for us?
Well Erin’s best friend Beth lands in 9 days. She will be with us in Berlin, and hopefully for most of our trip to Croatia. My brother fly’s to Germany on the 7th. We are going to visit m cousin in Frankfurt, check our Prague, and tour Berlin. I am really looking forward to seeing parts of Europe with my brother. Then on the 16th of March we take off for 20 days of climbing, sea kayaking, hiking, and traveling in Croatia!!
I need your help though.. I think my email might be kind of messed up. So what I need you all to do is email me and say hey Patrick your email is not broken, oh and while you are at it you could fill me in on what you have been doing recently, and how much you miss me…
Hope you are all doing well
The last thing I have been doing is kicking butt at cribbage. For those of you not in the know; cribbage is a card game that’s great for passing long winter nights in Berlin. There are about 5-7 of us that play regularly; recently we had the first annual Z-Dorf (the town we live in) cribbage tournament. While I was robbed of the overall victory I will say that I did have the victory of my young cribbage life when I handedly beat our friends Bob and Katy Williams. This was a particularly monumental win because they taught me how to play, and in turn I have now taught them how to loose.
The other thing that has helped us pass this month of gray is the two friends that came to visit. The first one was our old roommate Mari-Jane who is living in Scotland for a year. She shot over for a five day trip; it really helped to break up the monotony of the weeks. It was really great to see her again and we are excited that she might move back into our house when we get back to the states. The second friend that was a bit of a surprise was Erin’s long time friend Lori from Minnesota.
She emailed a week or two ago and said she was coming on the 18th we told her that if she was coming then she had to go to Venice (as in Italy) with us for the night of the 23rd. It was not to hard to twist her arm so at 5:30am on the 23rd we met our friends Andy and Amanda to go to our local Flughafen (German word for airport). We landed in a foggy Venice about 9:30 and set off to find some Pizza, Gondolas, wine, and a good time. Being Italy finding those thing 
4 things did not prove to be very hard, and unfortunately finding the wine proved a little to easy, because some of us woke up on Sunday with their only shirt wine stained, an upset stomach, and a headache.So what’s next for us?
Well Erin’s best friend Beth lands in 9 days. She will be with us in Berlin, and hopefully for most of our trip to Croatia. My brother fly’s to Germany on the 7th. We are going to visit m cousin in Frankfurt, check our Prague, and tour Berlin. I am really looking forward to seeing parts of Europe with my brother. Then on the 16th of March we take off for 20 days of climbing, sea kayaking, hiking, and traveling in Croatia!!
I need your help though.. I think my email might be kind of messed up. So what I need you all to do is email me and say hey Patrick your email is not broken, oh and while you are at it you could fill me in on what you have been doing recently, and how much you miss me…
Hope you are all doing well
Patrick
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