I have arrived

It's just after 9pm, and I have never been more excited at the fact that I am starting to be tired, which means that maybe, just maybe, I will be able to sleep tonight, and not be ridiculously messed up by the 6 hour time difference I have just experienced.

I left Canada yesterday night at 7:20 EST and spent 6.5 hours on a flight to arrive at Schipol airport at about 7:50am, I got my bags and went through customs at about 8:40. I was pretty excited for the flight, If there is one thing to know about me is that I absolutely love airplanes. However, I was quite disappointed that the sun was shining directly in my eyes, so after about 30 minutes I needed to shut the window, so I couldn't look out at the clouds. then I stayed up pretty late and watched a dutch movie Suskind. It was a very good movie, and I was surprised that I watched the whole thing because I had already gotten bored and switched off two movies. Dinner was surprisingly good, some sort of curry dish and crackers.

I was only able to sleep about an hour and half the entire flight. Which was dissapointing. I listened to music for a while, it was dark, so it would of been difficult to get my ipod from under the seat, so I instead, listened to the music provided through the in-flight entertainment. After about a half hour of a random jazz station, I took a look and was throughly impressed with the cd music selection. They had a lot of cds and I was able to create a playlist including Gotye, Lana Del Rey and Rhianna :). It was super foggy when we landed, I didn't see the ground until I was on it. That was pretty disappointing, because the view of the farms and canals when you come into Schipol is super duper nice.

Once I arrived I was picked up by my second cousin, Cosmo, who lives in a town called Weesp. We drove to Weesp to pick up his mother and then headed to his brother, Andy's house. I am staying at Andy's house for the next two nights before I go to Venlo on Queensday. I stayed up until around noon while they visited with Andy's family. It is his daughter's Aileens birthday on Sunday. We had cake, it was very yummy. I napped until dinner time. When I woke up and showered, I had forgotten that outside of Canada, everything is just a bit different, smells a bit different, feels a bit different.

I think the strangest thing for me right now is that inside the house you can keep your shoes on, or wear slippers. It felt completely strange not to take my shoes off at the door. So I think that one of my first purchases will be a pair of slippers, so that I won't feel strange in other people's houses (or my own).

We had delicious pancakes for dinner, you couldn't have picked a better meal for me if you tried to. It was amazing, I ate them with apples, and cheese and syrup, or apples en kaas en stroop. Tomorrow I think we are going to visit some of the smaller towns around here, then to Utrecht for Queensnight. I am hearing a lot of hype about Queensday; they only asked me three questions coming into the airport, where are you going? when are you leaving? Do you have any orange clothes?