Hey, hope things are going well back in Texas; I'm starting to miss it a little. It's been a busy couple of weeks here, I've traveled a bit and had a huge paper due yesterday. Everything is done though and I am very ready to go on Spring Break.

Holland was a lot of fun, although Amsterdam was certainly a shock. I've got a couple of pictures up on Flickr. Amsterdam was a very pretty town but it seemed dirty/degenerate. We went to the Rikjsmuseum, which was very impressive and saw both Rembrandt and Van Heyden exhibits, both of which I enjoyed. I went to the Van Gogh museum on Saturday, but they had already closed. I spent most of the weekend just walking around town and looking at different sites; there were some really cool parks and statues. The city is laid out with rings of semi-circular canals so most roads parrallels a canal, which made Amsterdam both easy to find your way around and pretty. We got back and last school week was largely uneventful. We stayed in a Hostel called the Shelter which was quite a bit different than I expected. It was actually quiet, which was welcome but the building itself wasn't very nice nor clean. I had a good time though.

This last weekend was a lot of fun too, me and some other guys from the hall went to York on Saturday and Durham yesterday (both in the UK). York was a very pretty and ancient town, where the Romans had been and there was quite a bit of historical stuff to see. We went to an Evensong service in the York Minster, which is the largest Medieval building in Britain. The Minster was awesome and immense, though somewhat covered by scaffolding. That night we hung out in York and went out with some people we met at the hostel for St. Patrick's day. Durham was cool too, there was a pretty interesting castle and then a beautiful cathedral. We couldn't really walk around inside it because services were going on (it was Sunday morning) but were able to see most the building nonetheless. I have a couple of pictures of both Amsterdam and Durham that should be up.

I am very excited about spring break (and in a little trouble for not telling my parents my plans); so here they are. Tomorrow (saturday) the Baylor group is taking the train to Oxford, where we have a tour of C.S. Lewis' house. We are staying in Oxford and hanging out in the town and university on Sunday. Later in the day Sunday, we are going to London and staying at Bayswater Inn near Kensington Park for the next 5 nights. We are going to see the sights Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday then take day trips to Canterbury, Cambridge, and Salisbury. On Friday, I am flying out of London Stansted to Venice, Italy. I am going to Venice with another guy from Baylor, Blake, and we are meeting two of my friends from Melville in Venice. The plan is to stay in Venice Fri. and Saturday night. On Sunday, we are going to take the train to Naples and stay there Sunday and Monday night. Tuesday morning, we are going take a ferry from Naples to the Island of Ischias to the city of Forio. We are staying there through Friday night, then going back to Naples, where we will catch the train and work our way back to Venice, stopping in Rome either on Good Friday or Saturday. As it is, I don't think we can get rooms in Rome over Holy Week, but it will still be really cool to see. I am flying from Venice back to London on Easter Sunday. The trip is going to be awesome, Croatia and Morocco were both deemed to dangerous or inconvenient because of language and lack of anyone that had ever been to either place before. Anyways, hope things are going well back home; I miss ya'll!