Test drive

I just spent 4 hours in a Lotus Elise... Took one for a test drive this afternoon and LOVED it :) It's such a pure sports car. It weighs nothing and therefore has great power to weight ratio despite it's 1.8 liter engine (which actually still has plenty of oomph and a great sound). Anyway, I'd really really love to own one but probably can't afford it (just yet). And besides I wouldn't sleep ever again with a car like that sitting on the road in (my little corner of) Amsterdam... But hey, it was great fun, and one day... one day... :)

Lotta and Lotus

Lotus Elise

Smile!

Beverages

We (Mariken, Onno, Afzal and Joseph) had a couple of drinks last night. Onno is back from Nicaragua for a week or so and we all had a little dinner together followed by LOTS of drinks :)

Oh, ehm... today I will be test driving a Lotus Elise! :)

Onno, Mariken, Afzal

Berlin with my father

Just spent a cool weekend with my father in Berlin. Met up with Lennaart. Had a cool time :)

2 towers

Reichstag

Bram and Lennaart

Der Vati und Bertine

Sony Center

Der Dom

Sweden

Just spent a weekend in the woods with my parents. We went to their cabin in Sweden for the Easter weekend. Very nice. NO WORK (no email or internet :) and lots of sleep!

So, batteries recharged... and back to work.

Ronja

Ritva (mom) hard at work

2 flags

Bram (my dad :)

Brorstorp

Oh, Daan IS a father now

Daan is now the proud father of Huib... :)
Congratulations dude!

Bodies

My sister (Pirjo) and I went to see Bodies...
It's an exhibition of ehm... well... human bodies. Real ones!
Check out: www.bodiestheexhibition.com

It's really, really cool! Incredibly interesting to see how a human body functions and how everything is organized on the inside. A lot of debate about ethics and stuff but it was done very respectfully. Two displays stood out most (for me), one was a display of all the blood vessels in a human and ONLY the blood vessels of that person (amazing!), the other was a series of cross sections taken every 10 cm or so spaced out a bit.

My sister and I

Daan will be a father soon (goodbye) party on the 'Veluwe'

We threw a (goodbye?) party for my good friend Daan because he's going to be a father and will therefor be lost for all mankind. So we rented a couple of cabins and went biking, drinking and gambling (poker) for a weekend...

We also threw Daan out of an airplane (tandem jump at Teuge) and I joined him on the load. Hadn't jumped in ages, I was hungover, had gotten 3 hrs of sleep and ended up with a severe line twist and in a spin... hmmm... almost cut-away but got out in the end and landed safely :) That'll wake you up in a hurry!

Nijhoeah wrote a song

Daan (and Jagermeister) with Hans Bomer (zanger, toetsenist)

Notice the halo? (and the crying?)

Daan and Ted (in the dark, on their way to the bar)

Daan practising his baby skills (on Ted) (Ted is the green bear)

Directional debate (very very frequent and unsuccessful :)

Action pic

A weekend with Lotta

Below, a couple pics of Lotta staying over in Amsterdam. We had a great time :)

And there's Sofia (and her dad) picking Lotta up the next day

A little TV

Breakfast with Ilona (my then Roomy)

We LOVE doing the dishes (kliederen)

Ok so I'm 2, I'm still a woman and can therefor MULTITASK

Ok, so putting one of them hair clip things in is NOT one of my strengths :)

Yellow is a very very good color

Picking her up

Got my camera back...

Well, I got it back. The lens still makes a weird noise but does work (so far...) This of course means I should be posting a bit more on this blog. And I'll try! Although I'm very busy with work right now. Anyway, I had my niece over recently so I'll post a few pics of that weekend (which was great fun by the way).