Life is Good

Now don't think I've turned into a soft-hearted emotional-in-touch-with-my-female-side-kinda guy, but sometimes I can be a little mushy too. Why now? Well because I'm really enjoying my life at the moment. I've been having some really good times lately, it started two weeks ago.
In honor of my parents' 35th anniversary they organised a little trip to Ameland, one of our islands. We went for 5 days with the whole gang; Parents, sisters & kids, Wen & me. It was a lot of fun, we had a whole villa to our disposal with 5 bedrooms, each with a tv, two of them with a basin and water tap. There were two bathrooms, one with showerjets and washing machine & dryer, the other with whirlpool (!) and a sauna (!!). Good times!! Every day we went to the beach for a walk and playing with the kids was a lot of fun.

We came back on Friday, and the next day was my birthday. I got a big fat dictionary from my parents which was really nice, but with my utmost respect to them, it couldn't beat the gift I got from my girlfriend. She bought me a fully organised trip to London, our mutual favorite city in the world. I was of course very touched by this and we really had a fantastic time there. The room we had was amazing, very comfortable and pretty. We didn't do much of the touristy things, we covered most of that the last time we were there. This time we got to know more about the city itself. The people, places to go out, things like that. We saw Leicester Square, Soho, Camden, Chinatown and what not. We didn't eat at anything like Macs, BK or stuff like that. We only went to pubs for breakfast and lunch, and for dinner we had really good Asian food to remind us of W's home country. Hooked up with her friend on the last night after which we took the bus, plane, taxi, train and tram back home. It was a very hectic few days but completely worth it. I'd go again without blinking.

So there you have it. Mushy me. But I felt I had to write this, because my girlfriend deserves to get as much credit for this as possible. I'm very grateful.

Now I'm sitting outside typing this while listening to John Mayer. The sun is shining, the temperature is fantastic and it's a great day to be out. It's the first time this year I'm sitting outside so I'm really enjoying it.

Life is good.