Sitting outfront

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Vicky and Tony (Nicole's mom and dad) are in town. I met up with them together with my family. It was nice to catch up a bit.

Afterwards I walked in to town. I took old bread for the birds.

I went to this camera shop first to look for a tele lens for my Sony NEX camera but they didn't have it in stock and on top of that that charge 100 euros more than when you buy it online. I don't think so...

It was close to Mulligans so I went down for 1 pint.

1 pint turned in to 2 pints after I put a stool out at the front. Instant action.

Not all the action is good for you though...

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I had my Sony camera with me so I made some pictures while sitting outside.

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Alex, another regular, likes to sit in the sun and drink a few wines and read.

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Old Beetle.

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The Amstel.

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Tourist.

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River Amstel.

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It was warm and lots of people sat at the water underneath the trees.

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On my home I heard screaming and a group of girls was having fun with water bikes.

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Another one of my roses.

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Galcon Fusion. Very addictive game.

The grebes

Baby grebe (nl: fuut) imitating mommy grebe looking for food.

Fishy!

In the evening I had dinner with my friend Eva at Cafe Wildschut. It was very nice seeing her again.

My plastic shed!

I worked from home this morning, waiting for a delivery. The transport company sent me updates about the arrival time on my phone. Haven't seen that before, impressive!

And indeed, shortly after 10 my little parcel was delivered: A shed.

I took the afternoon off and an explosion of shed-parts occurred.

Empty...

Full!

I built my plastic shed in 3 hours. I'm very happy with it :-)

Meet Hacker

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This big little guy is Hacker. It's my boss' dog. I can't remember the breed but he's beautiful.

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Hacker likes biting in things including hands that want to pet him. He's still got his razor sharp baby teeth though so I gave up after a few tries. He was also very interested in my lunch hehe.

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Colleagues were getting instructions on how to put out a fire.

After a boiling hot tram ride home I went to the supermarket. The line-up was huge. I wonder if that's because it was cool inside...

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Another rose popped open.

And I just wanna say how great it is to cook with these pans. Potatoes boiling at the bottom, green beans steaming in the top. Awesome.

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers

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On my way to work I saw this happy family.

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And on my way back home I saw them again but in a different spot.

In the evening I met Marjolein to see the Red Hot Chilli Pipers in Amstelveen. It's a "bagrock" band. Their lead instruments are bagpipes!

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The Red Hot Chilli Pipers.

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The pipers.

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Bit of flute action.

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Their guitar player is a bit of an animal but he plays very well.

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They also do a fairly nice bit of percussion.

Was fun to see them again. I hope they will have updated their repertoire a bit next time I'll see them though.

The dinner

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I was a bit early for the ferry so I sat next to the water a bit. There was a ducky keeping my company. Well, not really, it was having dinner there...

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The Holland-America line sailed past.

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After work I met up with Kees, Danny and Jud. Jud piloted a flight from the USA to Amsterdam and had an evening to spend with friends here. I imagine he's got a lot of friends in different places.

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I walked home.

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The "Cookies bridge".

The cow

Yesterday Ruud and Laurien brought me this gift. Yum yum!

Today there was a cow on my wall...