Schiphol behind the scenes / The LEGO Mustang

I took a few pics of my soon-to-be working area... There hardly is any room to work though...

Yes, that shiny thing in the middle is what I need to remove and replace. It's the EGR valve which at certain conditions lets some exhaust fumes enter the engine to burn off bad fumes.
Well, it also makes my car run crap so I'm hopefully gonna put a stop to that... Don't know when yet though.

View from the top.

Late morning we went shopping. The only thing I bought was this LEGO Mustang.

I only found out that this is available yesterday. Love, love, love it :-)

In the afternoon the four of us went for a "Behind the scenes" tour of Amsterdam Schiphol airport. It was a fun thing to do.

The only downside was that we never got off the bus during the tour. Btw: that guy on the right is NOT me ;-)

We drove past these Kenyan air planes that had been sold to another airliner and were going to be repainted.

And past the area with private jets. This one belongs to the Dutch royal family.

View towards the Schiphol tower.

We saw airplanes taking off which was cool.

And we saw them coing down, which was also very cool!

And I saw a huge can of Heineken. It made me thirsty ;-)

After the tour we went up the panorama deck where there are always great views.

It was a lovely way to spent the afternoon together :-)

Visiting Zwolle.

Today Simone and I visited a town called Zwolle. I hadn't really visited it and had only heard it is quite nice. Well, it was! Here are the pictures to prove it ;-)

First building we saw after parking the car. We parked at the edge of the center, very convenient.

Another lovely house while we walked in to town.

Getting closer to the main square.

The weather was great. I took this photo not so much for the decor but...

For Mr. Green glasses overthere. He just looked funny I think :-)

First things first: coffee and cake. Which we had at the main square, in the sun. Weather is improving as of today and we were already feeling the change. It was getting nice and warm.

We continued walking.

This is the river/canal separating the 2 parts of the old center.

This tower is called "Wijndragerstoren". It's got a bit of old city wall attached to it still.

Us :-)

We kept walking along the old city wall untill we came at a point where you could actually go up. There was a gate I could play with ;-) When play-time was over we continued in to town where there were also very nice shops.

One of the shops sold vinyl records. I spotted this ZZ Top album from my birthyear 1973. I'm going to frame it :-) Btw, I took this photo while we were at another terrace having lunch. It was at a burgerbar called "Ingeburgerd". Their burger was great!

When we continued we came acros this little old church. A workman was busy with the door open so we sneaked in to have a little look. Very plain interior, nothing exciting really.

The workman told us a bit about the church and so we found out that it was in use by a bunch of about 40 Frenchies these days for their services, in French of course.

Side-door of the Frenchies church.

And then I came acros this LEGO shop! It was only selling LEGO and it must've had every single box you can get... Un-real! This is my favourite LEGO model of all times. It's a few years old now. When I was a kid I already used to make cranes without a booklet telling me how to. I love this crane. If I had a kid who liked technical LEGO I would not hesitate to get him/her this model.

And there was this racecar as well. Awesome.

As we continued we discovered more beautiful historic buildings. This is the "Sassenpoort".

When we arrived by car I had already spotted something very shiny. It was the roof of this museum. You love it or you hate it. I love it. I think it's so modern that, when looking at the older part, it fades and I don't see it.

The museum is at the edge of the old town so we walked back to the center again. I spotted this shop with my friend Eva's name on it. Nice building actually.

From where I spotted the "Eva" shop I also saw this old building. "Van GEND & LOOS" was a very old transport company.

A Hugo Boss store. Thankfully they left the facade like it was.

We walked back to the main square and went inside the big church. It's big.

Ceiling lamp.

The organ.

Then we walked towards another church you can't and shouldn't, miss.

This church is called the "Peppershaker", "Peperbus" in Dutch.

Totally different from the other churches we visited inside, nothing here was plain! Bright colours were everywhere...

I liked this statue of Maria and baby Jesus holding a basketball ;-) (I know it's the "world"...)

And then it was time for a sit again. We spotted this icecream place next to that city-wall where we went up. So we walked back and had amazing icecream.

Then it was time to head back to the car. We crossed the main square again. It has this glass statue which I liked a lot. It is the arch-angel Michael who is the city's patron saint.

One last view...

Bye bye Zwolle! It was great being here, you are a lovely little city! :-)

Flowers / LEGO

Waiting for the bus home. Simone had to leave for work early so I left as well.

When I got home they were shooting a movie around the corner. Apparently it was part of a three day shoot for a Spanish movie called "Truman" or "True man".

I had to do up my little garden a bit. I cut off flowers that were half way across the pavement and put them inside. They look nice I think.

Online, I came across this guy that models American muscle cars using LEGO. I got inspired and now I want to make one after my own car. So I downloaded the LEGO builder software for free. Let's see if this is ever gonna happen ;-)

Walking outside to run some errands I noticed the stains that fallen leaves made. They are like stencils.

My throat started to hurt mid-day and by evening I felt a bit pants. I installed the latest version of OS X and then I was done for the day.