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Enjoy my detailed journal entries from each of the stories in the episodes, plus see real photos from our personal experience
Saturday, February 16th
“Early morning bus ride to Belgium! Me, Face, Rachel, William and Natalie all took our first excursion together. We took an early morning, four hour bus ride from Paris to Brussels. On the ride there we had a good time entertaining ourselves with small things because we couldn’t sleep. Rachel dared me to put my mouth over the entire circumference of my giant water bottle AND I DID, and then when William started falling asleep I scared him by sticking a finger in his mouth! We made it to the hostel and it was kind of nice, but I’ve seen better. It didn’t really matter though because we spent most of our time touring the town. First we headed towards the city center. We had a really difficult time finding anything worth seeing, until all of a sudden we went through this underground mall and on the other side seemed like this entire different world. Horse drawn carriages, huge catholic churches, and thousands of people. We sat down at this fancy waffle place and ordered the richest looking set of waffles I’ve ever been in the presence of. DELECTABLE. After that we walked through this weird flea market area where we saw tons of strange antiques. There was this weird wooden phallic looking object that had holes in it. Rachel and I got a hoot out of it honestly. I found my way to a booth that was selling this big boujee fur coats AND cowgirl boots!I bought myself the most macklemore looking coat I could find and got myself some wonderful pink cowgirl boots for 10 euros. Both great purchases. That about summed it up for our first day of sightseeing. On our second day, we only had one really big thing to do which was to go visit this famous tavern called Delirium. We slept in and made our way there by 1 pm. You would think that if our bus leaves at 7:30 pm we should be able to grab our bags from the hostel and make it on time to the bus stop. Well that would be to assume that we are smart. Once inside the bar, I found myself eyeing a group of Air Force boys. I didn’t know they were Air Force, I just noticed they were speaking English. I invited them to come sit with our table and before we knew it, we were 3 Gulden Draak 3000’s and about 5 hours in too deep. That’s when William realized he was about to miss his bus because he booked the wrong one, which left earlier. Immediately we spring up from our table and everyone just starts running for the exits and down the streets of Brussels. Catch me not running so well after 3 Gulden Draak 3000’s. It was so poor in everyone that we all ended up separated. Before I knew it, I was sitting at a Mexican restaurant eating chips and salsa with one of the Air Force boys. I couldn’t get ahold of anyone on the phone, and that was because they were underground on the metro. I finally was fed up and used my French speaking abilities to ask for directions. I had no idea that they spoke French in Brussels and that ended up being my saving grace. I successfully got me and the Air Force boy to the road where the bus stop is. Just in time, we made it to the bus stop and the group who had apparently gone to get our bags at the hostel made it there too. Everything seemed fine until we realized William still didn’t have a ticket and Face realized she had booked her bus for the next morning… William ended up sneaking a photo of Natalies tickets and getting on before her AND SHE STILL GOT ON SOMEHOW, and Face bribed the bus driver to let her on but she didn’t have any cash so she asked for mine… Needless to say, we definitely had high blood pressure leaving Brussels.”
Rachel & Riley drinking the Wooden relic seen at “that thing you did
Gulden Draak 3000’s the Belgian market with your mouth”
Everyone including the Air Force boys The famous Belgian Waffles
once we made it to the bus stop.
Saturday, March 2nd
“It’s finally the evening time and the girls and I are getting ready to go to the clubs for the night. Analise calls me and tells me that she has arranged for us to get in to OPIUM. She tells me that they not only got us in, but that also comes with a booth AND bottle service! All we had to do was walk up and say we were with ‘Megan for 5’ and they let us in. The bouncers escorted us to the booth and it overlooked the DJ booth & the dance floor. The first thing I noticed in the booth was this HUGE bottle of Grey Goose vodka on this little stand where you could just pour it into your cup. My friends ended up losing me so naturally I just went out dancing by myself. Eventually they found me, right before the main event was coming on. All of a sudden this loud trumpet starts playing and everyone is going nuts! I was so confused when this bald trumpet player jumped on the stage. Everyone was losing their minds over this guy and I had no idea why but it was lowkey really hype. “
The Trumpet man playing in Opium from the view of our booth.
Tuesday, March 5th
“Woke up early this morning, it was ridiculous. Absolutely exhausted. We finally made it to Mallorca, Spain. Super ready for what the beaches here hold! We walked out of the airport and found the bus FINALLY, but we got bamboozled. We thought the bus was 2.50 euros, turns out to be 5 euros because we are coming from the airport! Woohoo! who knew? Not us! We finally made it to our little town and basically had to play Sherlock Holmes to find our airbnb because the lady wouldn’t respond. 30 minutes later we found the building and a man came to let us in, but told us we could only drop off our bags so that he could clean the place. We were kicked out for the next 2.5 hours so we just slept on the beach and ate pizza. Although the airbnb was in a sketchy place, I felt safe knowing how freaking difficult it was trying to unlock that front door. I don’t think I successfully opened it even once on my own. We finally made it inside and immediately Rachel, Olivia, Face, and I all ran to the room with two beds. The catch was that the beds were a queen and a twin. Somehow we were going to have to fit 4 people in this room, so we decided to push them together. This was the beautiful beginning of MEGABED.”
MEGABED
Friday, April 26th
“It’s finally the day we get to leave for King’s Day in Amsterdam! So, my flight anxiety has been a real pain recently so I decided I would just take the 8 hour bus ride overnight. My friends love me so much that they all decided to take the bus with me in support of my fears. I love them for that! I thought that taking the bus would be less of a headache for some reason, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. We all made it to the bus stop in Paris where we were going to take off from. When we got there there were 3 different busses but there was no differentiation on the tickets to show which one you were supposed to be on. We had to walk to each one and wait in a line until the bus conductor told us if we were at the right one or not. And ~shockingly~ it took us at least 2 times at each bus to figure it out. Unfortunately, Rachel was the only one to get put on a separate bus. Olivia, Alyssa, and I were about to put our bags under the bus when Olivia realizes she doesn’t have her passport. She has to leave the station and go home to get it, and then re-book a new bus to Amsterdam later in the morning. As if we thought that was the only problem we would have, Rachels bus broke down for 3 hours in the middle of no where. Alyssa and I were the only ones who made it there semi-smoothly. Good think Amsterdam has McDonalds for us to wait at!”
Saturday, April 27th
“HAPPY KONINGSDAG!! It’s King’s Day and all of us are so ready to forget about the terrible bus ride we had yesterday. So basically, our game plan for the day is to get dressed up in our orange and just GO. Theres a party on every street and you just can’t go wrong. With that being said, I don’t have much to say other than this was one of the best day of my life.”
William, Rachel, Riley, Olivia, and Alyssa on King’s Day
” An honorable mention from today is definitely Rachel’s hand embroidered sweater. She wanted to spice up her outfit, but later realized that she did it all very wrong. Little did she know it would turn out to be the most iconic sweater ever.”
Rachel and her famous design
Sunday, April 28th
“It was the morning of the day we were supposed to leave. We had the whole day to do whatever we wanted. We walked down the hostel stairs and behind the front counter was the most Golden and handsome man any of us had ever seen. He talked to us and even called my hair CLASSY. I don’t know why, but that was the greatest compliment I have ever gotten! We swooned over him all day long, and in the afternoon we had lunch with him. We ate at the hostel and he sat in the dining room chatting with us and singing us songs. He was angelic in every way. It was so funny to see all of us girls going nuts over someone we will probably never see again.”
Gideon and when he played guitar at the hostel in Amsterdam for us.
Olivia’s Favorite Memory:
Riding our bikes to our secret beach cove
As promised, A quick look at our new merch line. Inspired by Rachels hand made sweater:
#IMSODRUNK sweater: $40
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