The wedding

I have taken today off so I can be at Patricia and Martijn's wedding.

It's more than an hour's drive at Wijenburg castle. Very nice venue though!

Mara and Ray were there as well.

The Haasje Klaas Klup

This morning I picked up the trophy for my squash tournament at work. I had the 2014 winner's name engraved in it. Next year is already the fifth edition. Super :-)

In the evening Simone and I had dinner with friends. We formed the Haasje Klaas Klup which is a gang of 8 (4 ex colleagues and their partners) and we have dinner a couple of times a year. Usually at a restaurant called Heasje Cleas in Amsterdam but sometimes elsewhere.

Last night we went to HC and it was a fun evening! :-)

Mara and Patricia.

Simone, Laurien, Ruud, Remy and Mara.

Laurien, Ruud, Remy and Mara.

Patricia and Martijn.

The dinner

Good morning. Looks like one of the new neighbours has been trying out their balcony and needs to get educated on social behaviour. There were just as many in my downstairs neighbour's yard... Fucking anti-social pigs.

Late arvo I walked in to town to meet some friends for dinner. I noticed the little house in the middle. It's an odd set of houses.

Guinness was good for me :-)

And so was the cottage pie!

Remy, Martijn and Mara. Patricia refused to be photographed. Must be a women thing...
We had a nice dinner and had ice cream for dessert and then one more drink somewhere else.

The interview

I met Remy, Mara and Patricia in town this afternoon. Mara wanted to pick our brains on the subject of "blogging". Mainly about the differences between professional blogs and hobby stuff (like mine). This was for a school project. It was fun and then we had a bit of lunch and a few beers and laughs. Pretty relaxing arvo.

The Amsterdam Light Festival

My breakfast was rather large...

The Christmas tree received decorations today. I have no clue who put it there...

In the afternoon Mara and Remy joined me to see my car, they were very curious. I needed to fire it up a bit and also I wanted to remove the antenna so I could put the cover on properly.
The care started after 5 tries. Hope I didn't exhaust the battery...

Afterwards we went back to my place for a beer.

... and a pile of toasties that I made :-)

Then Ruud and Laurien dropped by and we walked in to town to walk the "Amsterdam Light Festival" trail.

Below are some photos I took during the walk:

My shadow was in jail!

At some stage it started to rain really bad and we hit a pub. here's yours truly, Mara, Remy, Ruud and Laurien and for some reason nobody has a normal face!

The whole trail took about 3,5 hours to walk which was a fair bit. We needed some moisturizing afterwards.

One final shot when i walked back home with Ruud and Laurien. I love the sky, it's kinda surreal.

Happy birthday Patricia! :-)

Oliebol! :-)

Patricia took me and some other friends of her out to dinner for her birthday. Here she is with her friend Mara.

She was given this book by someone.

I liked the fact about Snottingham ;-)

Afterwards we went for coffee somewhere. Mara turned in to Captain Mara again ;-)

Captain Mara

A secret society known as the "Haasje Klaas Klup" a.k.a. HKK, gathered again tonight, in their "clubhouse" which is restaurant "Haesje Claes". Members have to be linked to the IT firm Furore and are allowed to bring 1 partner. So here's my ex-colleague Mara and her boyfriend Remy.

My mate Ruud, who still works there, and his girlfriend Laurien.

Ex-colleague Patricia and her boyfriend Martijn and of course yours truly.

The girls were very entertaining ;-)

Captain Mara and her boat with the teabag-anchor.

Patricia and Martijn brought me this book with 300 (chocolate) recipes as a late birthday gift. I like :-)