Well, the sun came out a few weeks ago and has (for the most part) continued to hang around. Jan-Jitze and I just had a study break and took a pot of coffee outside to the dock, and all the passing boats reminded me that I haven’t really uploaded all of the boat photos from the previous few weeks.
Susan was in town a little while ago, and we headed down to Bruges/Brugge/Bruge/Whatever to meet up with our friends from Antwerp, Elise and Josie. It was such nice weather that we decided to do a touristy boat ride, which was a lot of fun. Click on the photo below for more pics of Bruges:
Hiske couldn’t make it down to Bruges since she was working, so we decided to rent a boat in Amsterdam that weekend and cruise around locally. Nina, Susan, Roberto, Hiske and I all pitched in and were on the water for a few hours, really having a wonderful time (save for the few minutes we were stranded on an old submerged dock support). Check out the last photo in that album…it’s where we ran aground, and I’m precariously perched on the side of a building trying to get the boat free. Thankfully that strategy didn’t work, otherwise I’d still there on that ledge… 
Same deal as above, click for more photos:
All of this has made me desperately want to get a boat. I think next week I’ll look into all the rules for parking one in Amsterdam