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Breakfast, Lunch, Mid-day snack, Dinner

3 years ago, my bff Christa gave me half of her Canna plant, rather I forced her to give me because I really like the wide leaves w/ pale violet color in the middle turning pale maroon-ish towards the periphery. Flowers bloom in the month of August but that’s another story (or entry) of course.

Anyway, this year it seems like we’re losing the battle against those always-hungry-garden-snails that new leaves of my favorite plant aren’t safe anymore. We can always scatter powder for pest (snails) control BUT a number of cats, not ours but neighbors’, are constantly playing in our garden and we do not want them to come in contact with this powder.

Snails are winning.

I am seriously considering converting this personal blog into a photoblog…..I got a new old model Canon Dslr baby to play with * yeah baby! * …since coming up with words to post these past months has been difficult, why not just say it with pictures?

what do you think?

FRESH SUSHI

On the way home inside the car when I took this photo. Does he look comfy on that bike?

I rather think it’s cool!

Sometimes when the weather is good, group of bikers ride the highways to show off their vintage

motorbikes and hopefully I’d be able to get a glimpse, even make photos of them.

Note: just click the thumbnails for larger images.

This was my first ever adventure/vacation with ‘strangers’ . Why ‘strangers’? Because she1, she2 and I only met online, chatted online, exchanged e-mails, done the usual internet buddy stuff yaddy yadda. Sure we’ve seen each other’s faces but only on pictures, webcams..that’s it. Meeting someone in person makes a whole lot of difference.

Cheerfully saying that after spending days with them, these ladies are no longer just strangers to me.

She1 and I talked about meeting up in Greece last year but unfortunately, it didn’t happen due to some circumstances. But she1 really needed a vacation so when she finally got the chance, she changed her itinerary and decided to come to Holland instead and visit its neighbouring countries. UK was the last leg of her tour. With she1′s constant “sige na tekla, ‘sama ka na sa UK” (c’mon thess, join me in UK), one day I finally gave in since gusto ko din makapamasyal at makapag-shopping, window shopping lang ha. She2 , whom I met via she1 was joining the UK trip as well.

Thus this was the start of my adventure/vacation with strangers-no-more.

She1 arrived first in Holland on April 12. I was of course excited cge na nga, excited na cos I was about to finally meet my skype blah blah yakkity yakkita daldal friend. Plane has touched down minutes earlier than scheduled but she was nowhere to be found. I was watching her big red suitcase (I knew it was hers cos I saw a picture of it before) going ’round and ’round the belt at Schiphol Airport but the owner was nowhere in sight (later I learned that she followed a bunch of japanese who were also naliligaw at the airport, juicekoh! :crazy: ) While waiting, I saw one of my favorite british cooks probably waiting for his ride. I wanted to ask him if I could take a photo together but changed my mind since I was afraid I’d miss she1 when she turns up. tsk tsk, isinakripisyo ko nga naman oh *lol*. But to make a long story short, I finally saw her collecting her suitcase and pointed to her the door leading outside. Uy ha, beauty ang tita, magkamukha kami! was my first impression ang umangal, sasapukin koh! Took her home, showed her her room and there she jumped and jumped like a little kid. She was so happy to see me. kasi nga magkamukha kami, natural beauty! mwahahaha

Second day, she2 arrived from Switzerland, picked her up from the train station and we proceeded to the lukaret’s mansion. There shes 1 & 2 stayed until monday evening. That was where they enjoyed the great german wursts, museums, Rijn (Rhein) trip and of course plenty of blah blahs .

Tuesday we went to Antwerpen, Belgium. There we went to Ruben’s Huis (museum) sat in the terrace and had lunch, window shopped, visited the famous Antwerp Cathedral, sung to she2 my Charlie’s song (she2 gamely obliged and spin around jus like Charlie whenever he hears this song) and took lots of photo.

Antwerpen Cathedral …. my most favorite part of the day was this—->belgian waffles!! <—Roger, a kababayan selling the waffles ‘wish I had his job, he he.

The following day we visited Kinderdijk, that’s a small village near my place where Circa1740, 19 windmills were built…at present they are still in good condition & functioning.

We also went to Madurodam (miniature cities of Holland in display, a popular tourist attraction) just like them, it was my first time to visit the park. Of course photos here and there were taken.

Such as this—->

or this where 2 burukas mimicking she2′s famous pose

or this when I so wanted to touch the baby seagull who was calling for its mum

finally, mum regurgitating itsy bitsy foodsy for baby

Between these short tourist trips, she 1 and she 2 also helped around the house, see the following images as proof

<—-Ellen cooking sinangag

<—-Syempre si Sofie ba, papatalo? :cute:

note: may the last 2 images serve as warning to fellow bloggers who wish to stay @ my place during their holland visit. you will be required to clean the house, wash the car, do the ironing and laundry as well. :hehe: :peace:
their last 2 days in Holland was spent in Amsterdam where they met with 2 other bloggers from UK and France (both pinays.)

UP next: Trip to Bath, UK (that includes Stonehenge, Avebury, Coltswold ,Tetbury and She1′s 13th bday )