February 2005

Ann’s mom Sabine and her boyfriend Rik are visiting for the first time! We are very glad to host them, but we have to keep Sabine out of the kitchen because she has a nasty habit of breaking all our stuff. 😉

My second whirlwind trip home. Only this time I didn’t get to spend as much time in Princeton as last time. And I didn’t get to eat ANY Indian food! I came into Newark on Monday, arriving one day after the snow, just like last time. We haven’t hardly seen Read more…

This weekend Ann and I decided to go on a spontaneous trip to Antwerp to go see the women’s finals of the Diamond Games featuring Venus Williams and some French chick I had never heard of (Amelie Mauresmo). We arrived Saturday night, tired and hungry, and walked to the hotel, Read more…

It wasn’t easy at first. Ken and I got to the Holland Casino at about 8:15. We rushed through the bag check and bounded up the stairs to get on the list for a Hold ‘Em table (correction: THE Hold ‘Em table) only to find the single 10-20 table in Read more…

So I’m trying to occupy the time until Superbowl XXXIX. Four hours to go. It will be 12:30am here when I start watching, but I started conditioning myself to watch the whole thing by staying up last night until 3am watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. As much as I appreciate Read more…

The popcorn in the movie theaters here is coated with sugar instead of salt and butter. I have to say, I really like it. It’s a really light coating, just enough to give you the idea and to make you want more. Come to think of it, they may mix Read more…