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I needed to do more shopping, beer as well. And I found a crate of Heineken with the superduper funky opener inside :-)

Also I needed to bake one more cake. It was the apple pie. And a very nice one it was indeed!

I got a lot of people over for my birthday today which was really, really nice! My house was nearly too small for all of them to fit. Early evening only Mic, Mickey, Noortje, Marjolein, Simone and Larissa were left.

This year's pressie-theme seemed to be "whisky and cars". Whisky because of all the booze I got and cars because most other pressies involved donations towards my little pony. I guess I better don't mix these two up ;-) I'm especially pleased with the little book on '76-ers coz it belonged to Simone's late father... I'll treat it well and I feel inspired to now collect other years as well.
I also got a photo of Simone, me and the kids which I like very much but for privacy reasons won't show here.

The "funniest present" award this year goes to Tanja and Patrick who gave me a puzzle of our new Dutch King and Queen. I will indeed finish this at some point and hang it up at work I think ;-)

I had a great birthday with all my family, in-laws, girlfriend and friends. Thanks guys!

Want some shoarma with that garlic sauce?

Tonight I met up with Mic. We both could use a bit of a drink. Guinness for strength!

But also I was dying for some shoarma (kebab).

Mic was so kind to make sure I wasn't short of garlic sauce.

After dinner we went back to the pub, had a few more pints and then switched to whiskey. We tried a new one called Writer's tears and it was rather nice.

My first whisky

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The first whisky ever that I bought for myself. I had some last weekend and liked it, almost a miracle. I hope the Dalwhinnie will like me too :-)

I went to town for a couple of things. I thought I'd have a look at the new Apple store. This is the glass staircase that's in all the stores around the world I believe. Nice.

It was incredibly busy. The place looked great but the merchandise was disappointing. I have a 27" iMac myself and will never have any other desktop system because I just love it. But really Apple sells 5 things: iPods, iPhones, iPads, iMacs and i... no, Macbook's. Oh, and server hardware but I didn't see any of that. Downstairs was for iPads and iMacs and upstairs was for iPods, iPhones and Macbooks and accessories.

There are about 100 iPads, 20 iMacs and 25 Macbooks on display. It's just more of the same where ever you look!

I'm OK with paying a lot for my iMac. But the accessories like headphones or loudspeaker systems for iPhones/iPods are incredibly overpriced.

There was also some kind of show.

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Carlos Vamos was playing on Leidseplein.

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These two buildings are called "The two sisters" I believe.

Sexy dresses.

I had a few pints in Mulligans. There was rugby on.