Monday, January 01, 2007

Christmas, New Years and a little USA

It has been forever since our last posting...but aside from work we've been relatively tame in our endeavors.

We did host a Thanksgiving dinner at our place in which Kindra did a phenomenal job of cooking a tasty meal for 13. Not a bad first effort and you couldn't have fit another body in our apartment.

In early December I ended up stateside for some work meetings in Vancouver, BC and Portland, Or. Was able to ski for a day in Whistler before my meetings and the timings made it so I could surprise my dad for his birthday. Was also great to see the rest of the family and a bunch of friends. My flight back to Amsterdam went through SF so I was able to have dinner with my mom and Ben on a 24 hour layover. Was great to see everyone and just get acclimated to US time again before having to go back.

After returning Kindra and I made it through a couple of hectic weeks at work before heading to England for Christmas. We stayed with Nikky's family in a small town called Litton Cheney. Was great to meet everyone but I'll let the video show the trip...

Christmas in Litton Cheney Video


After returning from England we made a quick trip to Leiden to get dinner with Henne's brother Nick and his family before New Years.

For the New Year Kindra and I went to a friends house for dinner and ended up staying there to see the fireworks. Amsterdam is insane on New Years. Again, video will do a better job of showing this...

New Year's Eve (Live from Baghdad)


That's about it. This weekend we are going to Prague for Kindra's birthday. So we'll post some photos again soon. Here are some photos from the last few months...

LINK TO SWEET PHOTOS

Hope everyone is well.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

Great videos. New Years looked like it could have been WWIII in Amsterdam. The fireworks certainly didn't go up very high.

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year 2007!
Interesting blog. What a great life you have created for yourselves!