The croissants

I made croissants for breakfast.

Ready to go in.

My new oven works very well.

And voila! Yum yum :-)

Late afternoon I travelled to my parents by train. This is central station.

Destination reached.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A Christmas miracle happened overnight! The GVB (pub. transport A'dam) had finally cleared the platforms from snow after it's been there for TWO WEEKS!

At work a Christmas breakfast was organized. There were buns...

... and lotsa raisin bread. Very yummy.

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The room was a bit too small for all of us...

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The ice plant looking bigger and better than ever.

When you run out of salt, use pepper!

Meeting Marjolein.

A piece of cold war, literally cold.

The ice-plant keeps growing because there's a leaking rain pipe next to it that splatters water on it.

I met Marjolein for dinner which I bought her because she had won my facebook game of "Guess what this picture is?" I had a very nice evening.

When I came home, more Christmas cards had arrived. These are from Eileen, Patricia and my mom and dad.

Meeting Ruud.

My colleague Walter left yesterday...

I saw this frozen plant.

I met up with my friend Ruud with whom I had drinks and dinner. A very nice time was had indeed.

One more pint...

I received this Christmas card from one of my bosses and his girl friend.

Mr Boots

Driving to work.

Snowy laser beams on the ferry.

Boots was in the office again! It's my colleague's bull dog and he is awesome!

I came along on one of the walks.

He likes trees.

Including this tree.

He also likes running through the snow, or running in general. But because of the very heave chest, shoulders and head bull dogs are a bit off-balance. So while running he fell over and slid through the snow for about a metre hehe.

More tree sniffing.

Snow ball throwing. There is a little video of this.

I saw a gigantic star hanging from a construction-crane.

Another Christmas card arrived. This one is from Nicole. Thank you :-)

The pot luck dinner / Ewa's birthday

I had a dinner with lots of friends tonight. We all made something and I brought some apple pie and I made carpaccios.

Nicole and Kees in the kitchen.

Bit dark but you can just see the table with food ;-)

It was also Ewa's birthday and Nicole made an awesome cake.

Good luck with those candles!

It's a good thing there was no smoke alarm close by...

Crossing tracks.

I crossed the tram tracks when I walked to the super market around the corner. That's about the most exciting things I did today. It can't always be apple pie and rock and roll! :-)