Trip to the Netherlands

Saying good-bye to our families was difficult but once we had gotten through security at the airport, we officially started our journey. While we were sitting waiting for the plane we heard our names over the loud speaker. Turns out we got an upgrade to travelers plus with nicer seats and more room. They had tons of on demand movies, new ones too. We did try to sleep to help our jet lag but neither of us could. In the airport in London I had a delicious crossant from the bakery and Jared had a chocolate one. The second plane ride was pretty quick and we couldn't sleep on that one either. Once we got here our chauffeur picked us up and drove us back to our hotel. We arrived in Maastrichtat 10:30. Then when we got into the hotel we had to wait until 3:00 to get into our room.
We walked the streets looking for something to keep us busy and awake and found a very large shopping area. We found a little restaurant called De Lanteern. We could only read two things on the menu, lasanga and burger. So that's what we got. Jared's burger was huge, and my lasagna we very good. Once we finished eating we still had to burn a few more hours so we walked around and around through the shopping areas then went back to the hotel lobby and sat and waited for the last hour. A little after 3:00 ( they had some cleaning issues) we got our keys and had to lug all six of our bags a few blocks down the cobblestone streets to our new apartment. Everyone was staring at us and talking about us in Dutch so we had no idea what they were saying. Our temp. apartment was very modern, updated, and spacious. There was a big living room and comfy bed. The kitchen had a dishwasher, fridge, full oven, and stovetop. But there was one major problem, no wireless internet! So we took a walk back to the lobby of the main hotel and asked to switch to a different room with wireless Internet. They arranged a new apartment for us in the morning, and this time they would take our luggage. Thank God! To end our day we experimented with the supermarket for the first time. We asked where the closest market was and went looking. We got a little lost, but once we found it we were a bit surprised. It was very very small. There was obviously not a single word in English and we had no idea what we were buying. We left with a box of frosties = frosted flakes and a small thing of melk verse half volle = what we hoped was milk with half the fat. We also got spaghetti and pasta sauce. For our first trip we think we did pretty well.