Day to Day Life

My husband is a serious Lego Junkie.  He and his friends are really involved in the robotics side of Lego and over the years he’s become increasingly busy with it.  The biggest event of the year for them is Legoworld in Zwolle.  He goes there each year for almost a week where he and the other Mindstorms guys put on …

You know that old saying… red sky at morning, sailor take warning.  Well, I wouldn’t want to be out on the sea today!  What a beautiful sunrise we had here in Rotterdam!   I just love being up early enough to see the sunrise.  I’m trying to soak in as many sunny days as possible before winter really hits here, because …

Last weekend I went to watch my friend Penny run her first 5k.  This was a huge thing for her and she had been working incredibly hard to get there, so there was no way I could miss it!  I was so proud of all she has achieved over the last while, and I couldn’t wait to be there screaming …

I’m baaaack!  Actually I’ve been back for almost two weeks, but I’ve either been busy, didn’t feel like writing or was having issues with my host.  Anyway, I’m here now and that’s what counts. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of the our time in France yet because I made a deal with myself that I’d catch up on all …

I am off on holiday!  We are going to the south of France to visit my husband’s family and will be taking off on our own to spend five days camping in the Pyrenees! This is where we will be camping.  Pretty awesome, right? See you all in two weeks!

I can’t believe I didn’t share my photos of the Veluwezoom!  I was looking into the archives of my blog to find the photos and realized I never posted it, how can that be? Back in November Xander and I got together with our friends Candace and Fran for a photo walk through the Veluwezoom.  It was so beautiful and …

Also… why did you just come along when I won’t be needing you for very long? I admit it, tonight I ate at McDonald’s.  I know I just moaned the other day about my weight but I did say that it might not be today that I sort my shit out. One thing I have to say, when you don’t …

One of the things on my growing list of things I don’t like about our flat is that we are overlooked by the big building across from us.  I love having such beautifully large windows, but man those oldies are such lookie loos! Another thing that always bothered me was our window washer that always showed up at random times.  …

Have you ever read my About Me page? If you have you’ve probably seen this… Ummm, yeah.  This is a lie.  Well, it wasn’t a lie when I first wrote it now but I can’t leave it on there without feeling like I’m telling a fib. A while back I wrote a post about how I felt that my being …

I think next to the lions my favorite part of our visit to Burgers’ Zoo had to be the Gorillas.  Their enclosure was a million times better than the gorilla enclosure at Blijdorp, where I was never quite able to get any decent photos.  This wasn’t a problem that day in Arnhem! The babies were adorable and it was really …

Rant incoming! It’s about people, and how they suck… and the rules of the road in the Netherlands that I just don’t understand! Today my husband and I were driving to the supermarket, and he nearly hit a biker with the car.  We both instantly thought that the guy was in the wrong, and apparently he thought the same about …