The Alkmaar visit

Snicker saying Good morning. Or something.

Saturday baseball. Was a good game, nice to watch, exciting!

In the afternoon the four of us went to Alkmaar to do some shopping. The weather was nice.
We visited my favourite icecream shop.

The big church.

House.

Alkmaar shield.

Door in the old townhall.

The "flat stone bridge" in the old part of town. Nice place with lots of history around it. It's kinda like a little Amsterdam here.

The old weighing house.

After shopping we quickly visited my mom and then went back in to town to get pizza. And a very nice one it was :-)

Replacing the fuel pump / Shopping in Alkmaar

Every second Saturday is kinda becoming "Mustang" day for me, which I don't mind at all! So today I was going to continue where I left 2 weeks ago, finish replacing the fuel pump!

Now that I had the right, American, tools it was quite easy to remove the old one. Here you see the old one and the new one. I also replaced the old piece of hose.

And there it is, all hooked up and ready to go. I cranked 4-5 times and the next time it started and eventually ran nice and smooth. This was a nice little project.

Just outside of the garage I bumped into this Oldsmobile.

Not a bad looking car, dunno what year it is... Think close to mine, 1973, I guess, maybe?

Upon closer inspection I found grass growing underneath the window trim. That's usually not a very good sign... Also the moist on the inside is not very good. This car is not maintained very well...

Driving home I passed my soon-to-be office. I'm gonna be on the 17th floor in a few weeks :-)

When Simone came home she quickly changed and we drove to Alkmaar for some shopping. I am desperate for new shoes and a new wintercoat. This building is where they used to weigh everything and the square is known for it's cheese market.

This is the numero uno shopping street of Alkmaar. I succeeded in my quest of finding new shoes and a coat. Me happy :-)

Afterwards we visited Ilse and Cassie coz they were having their housewarming.

The Alkmaar visit

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So today was supposed to be the end of the world once again. But once again it wasn't. This postcard from 1910 explains how it would probably be a good idea to all go to the moon in a zeppelin incase the earth is about to magically end it's existence...

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My dad's collectors club had it's 75th anniversary today and he and some other made a few displays for this. My dad's been collecting stamps since childhood.

There was also an area to swap or buy.

Marjolein came with me today (made first contact with the family which went very well! ;-). My mom dropped us of in the city of Alkmaar where we both hadn't been for ages. It was close to my old primary school so I went to have a look.

I was in those class rooms when I was a little boy.

I knocked a girls' tooth out here once. Can't remember why but I do remember her name was Danielle and she was 2 years older than me.

Bye, little old school!

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We crossed the old bridge in to the old part of town.

And then had ice cream from ijssalon Laan. It's the best ice cream in The NL that I know of.

In the evening, Marjolein and I were very lucky to get a table at the Scottish Hielander restaurant in Alkmaar.

They have 700!!! whiskeys in stock. That takes up a lot of room so they're spread all over the restaurant.

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Yours truly and Marjolein at our little table.

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We trained back to Amsterdam to go to Mulligans where we had 1 drink and then left because it was too warm, too noisy and too crowded. So we had a walk through town instead and sat for a moment at my favourite fountain.