But back to my summer vacation. I had so many fun things to do ^w^ I stayed over at friends of my parents' house for about a week. The highlight of that week for me was definitely the trip to the zoo. I really love animals, and the zoo I went to had all kinds of animals. For the Dutch people reading this blog, I went to Emmen Zoo.
This is a photo of me sitting in the mouth of a hippo near the entrance to the zoo. Luckily the weather was really nice that day (the next day it was raining a lot). First we went to the butterfly garden, and there were so many butterflies fluttering around, and really close as well, you could almost touch them. I also saw a hummingbird there, it was so cute :3
Then we went to see the sharks and other aquatic animals, like puffer fish and such. After we left that part we went to see the rest of the animals like elephants, lions, flamingos, tigers (although the only one I could see was sleeping on a high part with its back to me), hippos and all sorts of reptiles. They had this really cute gecko <3
See, isn't it cute? ^w^
The week after that Tessa, the thirteen year old daughter of those friends, came to stay over at my house (well, technically speaking my parents' house XD) and that was also fun.
But the absolute highlight of this year's summer vacation was the concert of YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz on July 26th in Amsterdam. Gackt was so awesome! Especially when they played Vanilla, the whole crowd went crazy. At one point I think I had eye contact with Chachamaru *_* Even though he is 52 (or around 52 XD) he is still really handsome ^_^ One of the staff members of the Melkweg handed out a few big posters of YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz and we could have them for free because of how long we had been sitting there (some of the people spent the night in front of the Melkweg :O I was there since 8.15 a.m.). So now it's on my door ^_^
This is the poster I got. There was also a different version, but I liked this one better. The poster above Gackt is from Dio~Distraught Overlord~ ^_^
On the 25th of August I went to Schiphol Airport together with Janneke (a friend/classmate) to welcome back Kayleigh, who came back from a study abroad in Japan (she is now a fourth year student at the same school as me). And then last Tuesday she held her birthday party since her birthday was in Japan. She also had some presents for me, Janneke, Elena and Danine. I got the August 2011 editions of Shoxx and Fool's Mate (both are Japanese music magazines) and a post card of Suzumi Shio, a Takarazuka Revue actress :D :D I keep staring at the magazines and postcard <3 Fool's Mate has Gackt on the cover, and Shoxx has SuG and ViViD on it. And even though Suzumi Shio is a woman, she looks really awesome in her role as Benvolio (Romeo & Juliet musical). Thank you Kayleigh <3
And now it's back to school next week, though I still don't have the necessary books yet, even though one of the companies I ordered at said that they would deliver at least one week before school starts again. One other book is coming from Japan, so I'm not really expecting it yet. The earliest will probably be next week if I'm lucky f^_^; But I'm really looking forward to seeing my friends/classmates again :D
Well, I think this is it for this time. Until next post!
~Marlies / マーリス
