Caroline’s Birthday Party 2007
We invited friends over to help Caroline celebrate her birthday. It was a lovely fun evening, thanks everyone for being a part of it. Here are some photos. Birthday Photos
Lovely afternoon in Sunnyvale
We spent a lovely afternoon bbq’ing with our friends Inge and Marc in Sunnyvale. Stephen was fascinated by the ‘Kapla’ (Kabouter plankjes) building blocks and tried to engineer a wide-span bridge… photos
Geert in the USA
My friend Geert, from Gent – Belgium, came to visit for 3 weeks. I took him on 2 roadtrips and in between he spent time in San Francisco. Our first roadtrip took us from Pasadena (LA), via bits of Route…
Bay to Breakers 2007
It is becoming tradition to do Bay to Breakers with a group of Belgians. Here are impressions of the race, footstock and the follow on meal at 21st Amendment.
Wellington
Caroline caught up with family and friends in and around Wellington while getting to know the city a bit better. photos
Sep/Oct 2007 travel plans for Caroline
While Stephen goes mountain-hopping on Cho Oyu (see our post from Dec 13, 2006), I am planning to do some traveling as well. I have booked 2 tours: The first tour is with GAP Adventures. Here’s the actual itinerary. The…
Palm Springs, CA – Feb 16-19, 2007
For President’s Day long weekend we visited Palm Springs, California. We left very early on Friday morning, at 7:20am and arrived at our hotel just after 6pm. We would have been 2 hours earlier had we not gotten stuck in…
Winterwandeling in de polders
On Feb 4 I went for a lovely walk in the neighborhood of Watervliet in Belgium. Here are some photos of the walk. Voor ‘t geval sommigen zich afvragen waarom jullie deze keer niet van mij hoorden: ik was in…
O’ahu 2006-2007
We went on a little break for the New Year’s period to O’ahu, one of the main Hawaiian Islands. The weather was tropical and gorgeous; Waikiki and surf-beaches were crowded, others less so; the vegetation was lush; the whole atmosphere…
New Bathroom
For those interested, here are photos of our new bathroom. The showerrod has been ordered; it’s longer than what one can standard get in stores. We are also still waiting for an under-sink cabinet to arrive sometime in January. That…
HOA X-Mas Reception 2006
Here are some photos of a fun evening with the neighbors.
Cho-Oyu – Getting more serious
For those of you who don’t know what Cho-Oyu is: it’s a 26,906ft/8,201m) mountain in Tibet and Stephen has just reserved a space with Alpine Ascents on their 2007 Expedition. The dates for the Expedition are August 25 till October…
Thanksgiving 2006
We had a lovely Turkey Dinner and evening at Inge and Marc’s, with their kids June and Britt and with our friends Gina and Sven. June and Britt are still asking when Stephen will be back to build more lego…
Vermont in the Fall
On Sep 29th I flew to NY where I spent 4 lovely and relaxing days with Kristin. I took the Amtrak to Vermont on Oct 3rd to spend 3 days with Mary Sondergeld. Don was in Florida for a bridge-tournament.…
Magda bij Caroline en Stephen
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