Some nice chatting, swimming, remembering, playing villain and police, got semi lost, ate apple syrup, pissed against a Canarian tree and much more highlights. We enjoyed it a lot! See you in October.
Category Archives: Enjoy
The social network
It keeps amazing me. The enormous power the social networks have in Spain. Earlier this year I had already experienced that the social network can take more than a year of your next scheduled doctors appointment.
The social network also seems to have very direct financial benefits. Like the price of medicines, a very important product for the public health. Instead of paying the normal price for our medicines we no just pay 66% for all products you can get in the pharmacy. Where I used to pay around 21 euros for a pot of multivitamins I now pay just 14 euro.
For us this is a nice discount and we would be fools not to make use of it. Still, it is annoying that the price of health in Spain for someone without connections or for a tourist is a lot higher.
Pek’s last echo
Once again we were offered a look into our future. In one month Pek will be born and he will stop being called Pek, because at that time he deserves his new final name.
Ana will leave for Madrid next week where in a month, the 24th of August, the birth of Pek will take place. He will be born during a vasectomy in the Alcala hospital. The same city as where we got married.
Pek is kicking quite a lot every now and then. Also he gets very happy and excited after Ana has something to eat. This time we had a test where they made a graph of Pek’s movements and his heartbeat. Everything started out really relaxed, but when Ana was given a lollypop the action started.
The top line in the graph are the heartbeat or the movement of Pek. The vertical stripes are an indication of movement. Ana had a little button which she needed to press when she noted movement. Every press on the button resulted in a little vertical stripe. The bottom line is movement by Ana. This bottom line indicated that Ana had two mini contractions during the test.
The little one weighs 2046 grams and it is a small baby, but that was to be expected with such a small mother.
Childrens song
Why are children’s songs always so sweet and unrealistic. I think it is better to just be honest and tell the truth.
We received a CD with Dutch children’s songs and some of these songs were so very sweet and childish. I could not resist myself and made an improved and more realistic version. There are probably still some problems with the rhyme but that can be fixed.
Advantages compared to the original:
- Honesty about the public transport
- Added counting up to 10
- Removed ‘hakke, hakke’
Visit dad and mom
We just enjoyed a nice visit. My father and mother visited us and they were just in time to witness pregnant Ana’s with a big belly. We had nice talks about old times and new. Exchanged stories about our childhoods, watched photos from our wedding, ate, drank and played some games of Parchis.
The next time me meet there will be one more family member. What a change that will be. Hope to see you soon.
1184 gram
In een week gebeurt er niet veel, maar toch hebben we weer een paar leuke fotootjes.
De statistieken:
- 29 weken en 3 dagen
- 1184 gram
Er is nog een foto, genomen uit een zeer ongebruikelijke hoek. Deze kan je hier bekijken door als wachtwoord een nummer in te tikken. Dit nummer kan je achterhalen door een van de onderstaande raadsels op te lossen.
- Emmastraat …
- IP-0…
- int(Adrie min A) + 1
Let wel, deze foto is niet geschikt voor tere zieltjes.
Protected: Pek gecensureerd
1100 gram
In tegenstelling tot de vorige keer hadden we dit keer wel een paar goede foto’s. Zie hier het edele gelaat van onze kleine.
Hij weegt inmiddels een goede 1100 gram en alles ziet er goed uit. Ana moet wel door gaan met het slikken van ijzer pillen, maar voor de rest verloopt de zwangerschap voorspoedig.
Suske and Wiske
It is a story that I like to tell my Spanish friends. The story on how the city where I was born, Leiden withstood and displaced a heavy siege by the Spanish occupiers. After sending the Spanish back home they left an empty encampment which contained a big pot of hutspot, a dish made with potatoes, carrots, onions and a smoked sausage.
Every year on the 3rd of October every inhabitant of Leiden celebrates and usually eats hutspot. I also try and keep this tradition in honor, even thou I moved to a different country and it is difficult to find a smoked sausage here.
The nice news is that a Suske and Wiske comic is being published. The topic is the suffering Leiden. I used to be a bog fan of the Suske and Wiske series and although I stopped reading around the comic number 200 I will for sure get this one (number 314). I wonder if Suske and Wiske will still be the same or if commercial interest have also entered the world of these comics.
The story should be placed around the year 1574, so for sure some time travel will be involved. On the cover I see the strong Jerommeke looking like a Spaniard who is just preparing a typical pot of green hutspot. I am curious about the recipe, because normally the color is orange. Suske and Wiske are with the underdog, the people of Leiden, who for sure will end up victorious. For sure it will be a classical story.
If you are also curious you will need to be patient. In august the new album will be released, although you can already pre-order it at the october 3rd association.
Coin fail
The design I made for the commemorative coin resulted in a big fail. The fact that I had really though about the design did not help a bit.
In my design all the European countries were united into one big arrow. The arrow was constructed out of various smaller parts. Each little part represents one of the European countries. The side (width) of every part is calculated using the number of inhabitants of a country. The height is dependent of the value of the countries original coin from before the euro, and the starting point is related to the year the country introduced the euro.
All my calculus and drawing efforts have been in vain. To bad. If you want you can still vote for one of the selected coin designs.