They arrived!

Just had a phonecall from the other side of the world. My parents arrived safely in Perth! I'm wondering what their holiday will be like!

dream house

In 2006 we spent a week in a fantastic holiday house in Denmark, 20 metres from the beach! I just fell in love with that house, with the interior and the way it felt like "home" immediately. Since then, I dream of having such a house. Someday, somewhere...but it will probably only exist in my dreams (and in Denmark). Oh well, need to book a holiday to THAT house again! Simple as that!

A week off

Just one more lesson this afternoon and then I have a whole week off. No lessons, no driving around from schools to private lessons at someone's house. I intend to prepare some new lessons, but also want to enjoy my week off. Usually, we go to Germany in February, to a nice holiday cottage. But Chris has to work (both at the printing office and at school as they have no holiday next week) so we're staying home. My little darling niece is coming for a sleep over and I want to read some more books and watch some movies. Like Inception. Have heard so much about it. But need to pick out a quiet moment for this movie as I am told that you really need to be focussed in order to understand it.
Anyway, I am looking forward to coming week and will start tomorrow with baking SCONES! Yummy. Following is a Haiku about the movie:

Dream within a dream
Itself in a bigger dream
I'm a bit confused.

Time is all messed up
An hour becomes a year
Slow-motion action.

You could be sleeping
but you wouldn't remember
Is this the real world?
—snowyowl0

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Holidays are lovely

Came back from 3 weeks holidays last weekend. We had a fantastic time in Czech. We rented a wonderful house with swimmingpool, close to the Polish border. So we visited both Polish and Czech towns. We also went to Prague for 3 days (booked a hotel 300 meters from the Charles Bridge) and this capital city was just as astonishing as it was 17 years ago when Chris and I went there together.
We did many nice things, visited a zoo (entrance 9 euro for us 4!), climbingparks, towns, mountains, a bunker from WW2, summer rodelbahn, had some tasty meals, etc.
I read a couple of books, played badminton, baseball and tried to swim everyday. I have driven in the mud with a quad (that rhymes), drank Pivo (beer) for 50 cents and listened to the most beautiful accordion music live on the Charles Bridge at night!

These photo's will tell you the rest!