Acht Jaar

Today marks eight years of samenwonen bliss for G and me. Well, we weren’t officially living together, but after a bit more than a month of dating and getting to know each other, we sort of made it official on this date. Eight years later, I couldn’t be happier.
To celebrate, we decided to grill some [...]

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Dag Twee

The second in the series of posts of the quick notes I took during the first few days here.

First of many trips to IKEA. Bought a gele bank (yellow sofa).
Tried to take the tram, but there was geen (no) service. Took the bus instead, but unfortunately took the wrong bus. Fortunately we figured this out [...]

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Dag Een

The next few days, I’ll be typing up the brief notes I took the first few days we were here. They’re not necessarily exciting or earth shattering, but it’s a fun reminder to me of those little things that caught my attention at the time.

Pippo falls down the stairs multiple times.
Luna claims the guest room [...]

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Één Jaar

(A picture of Orlando, the original flamingo, taken one year ago today.)
One year ago today, just about this very hour, we arrived here in Utrecht. The trip was done, the animals were all safe, and the house, although I’d never seen it in person, seemed very familiar from all of the photos. In this first [...]

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