Feeling like you’re spellbound

I am packing my bags, getting ready to hit the road :) Disneyland Paris, I am getting ready for ya!

This morning Joyce, mum and I did our usual grocery shopping tour. OK, a bit more than usual, seeing mum’s birthday is tomorrow and she needed extra stuff for the guests. And then Joyce and I came home, I cleaned up and washed our harden fridge while Joyce was busy unpacking the groceries. Then we ate our lunch and packed everything for the BBQ this evening into our garden fridge. *our garden fridge is just an old one we got from our old neighbors and we now use it for parties and BBQ’s*

And then we got busy in our front “garden”. Finally we’re going to make a small driveway for one of our cars there, with actual bricks. But we need a lot of old sand removed so that we can put in the yellow sand for the bricks. After about an hour, Joyce and I took Chance to a gas station. There we checked Joyce’s car tires and we washed that little car as well.

Now we have arrived home, Chance is playing with some kids outside and Joyce is keeping an eye on them. And I am in my attic room, typing this message and getting my bag ready for Disney. Since I will have to take my bags along to my mum’s birthday, they need to be ready this evening. I have to charge my photo cam’s batteries and get the memory cards emptied as well. And of course, pack some clothes, sun lotion, tooth brush and all…

So I will get my @$$ in moving gear, the sooner I am done here, the better. Seeing it is quite warm outside (22 degrees Celsius) and that means that it becomes hot in the attic room as well.

TTFN everyone! I’ll be back!
Cynni xxx

Game Weekend was fun, part 1.

Hello everyone!

Here I am again after a fun and busy weekend. I am now uploading some of this weekends pictures to my photobucket and I will check and edit some of the vids as well for you to enjoy later on this blog. I am doing my best to give you all as soon as possible a glance at how my weekend went. But uploading and editing takes some time, unfortunately, so it'll probably keep me busy for a few more minutes to hours (not going for days though!).

Around 20:45 on Friday, Kim and Steph arrived. Since Steph couldn't join us February 20th to go to Ramona's birthday party on the 21st (due to Chance's heat!), she arranged that her parents would take care for an extra day of Spokie & Pluis (her two cats). They did not mind and she arranged everything with Kim to surprise us by telling us there were to be expected between 20:30 and 21:00 on Friday evening. That way they could practice some more with the games and help out with the grocery shopping on Saturday. Joyce and I had seen some interesting Buzz! updates for the PS3, which we decided to buy and download on Friday evening while playing Wii Mario Kart. We went to bed around midnight, knowing we'd had to head for Nijmegen around 8am.

So on Saturday morning, we stuffed ourselves into the H200 bus and headed for Nijmegen. I had to get some diesel in the tank first when we came into Nijmegen (it's cheaper there than here in Cuijk), otherwise the girls would have to push the bus back to Cuijk. And seeing they were our guests, I could not let that happen. So I filled the tank for exactly € 25 (lucky! I normally end up with getting € 25,02 when I try to hit the 25 on spot), Joyce paid with my card and we were on our way to my parents' place. My dad was still in bed when we arrived. So everyone got to meet with Brutus, then mum got her bags, we all moved back into the bus and headed for the Super de Boer (also where I work). My boss looked very surprised when he saw my mum coming in accompanied by 4 others, instead of just Joyce and me. At the Super we bought our bread (the ones we needed were 50% off that week, so *yay* for us) and we got the cans of coup we needed there as well. When mum got her things together, we went to the cash register, paid and went to the second store: AH. There Joyce and I got everything for the pasta dinner of Sunday, some chips and drinks, milk and juice and then we were almost set for the weekend. After we finished our business at the AH, we went to the last supermarket: Lidl. There we got most of the meats for on bread and some salads and that was it! Grocery shopping 101 was a success and we passed! Then we brought my mum and her bags home. When we were on our way to the highway to Cuijk, Joyce came with the idea to go to the shopping mall in the Dukenburg. Everyone agreed and I made the bus to there *winks*. We shopped in some music and game stores, then went to the ATM for some €uro's and then to Bakkerij Bart (a bakery store) for something to eat. Kim's belly was going insane so we thought it best if she were to be fed asap *smile*. And the rest of us enjoyed a snack as well. In the end I had a PS3 game and a Wii game (both on sale) and some DVDs. Joyce had a PS3 game and some DVDs and Kim bought all 3 of the Shrek DVDs. Then we finally were on our way back to Cuijk!

Ramona had informed us that she'd be arriving around 2pm and Yvonne said to be there around 1pm. So when all the groceries were stored, we got ready for lunch. And then of course: games!

PS3 game Buzz!


Some questions were quite difficult *winks*

When the others started playing Buzz! I was setting the table ready for the drinks and other yummy stuff.

As agreed, everyone brought along something to eat, snack or drink. That way, everyone made a contribution to the weekend and it was affordable for us to host it.

Here are some Buzz! action pictures for you to enjoy!

Chance also enjoyed the sun and the company we were having.

I made a compilation of the PS3 SingStar video's I had and here it is! Enjoy!

Dinner and the table getting ready


The last songs before dinner

Around 5pm, the soup was getting ready and the baguette's were being baked. At that time the PS3 SingStar was being shut down and we all watched a movie I bought earlier that day: The Addams Family Values.

When the movie was finished, so were the baguette's and the soup. All the girls then went for a walk with Chance. We decided to take a longer walk (about 5km) to St. Agata and back over the dike. It was not too cold that evening and I do believe everybody enjoyed it. It was good for me to walk and it was also nice to being on the couch all day. After ten minutes I did get a bit mad at Chance, since she tried to tackle me several times and I warned her and she kept going on. So I got mad and then she was a very nice doggy again..

After we all got back, some of us slipped into more comfortable clothes, like house suits and PJ's.

I will post more about last weekend very soon again. I have to get downstairs and start preparations for dinner soon, so I'll leave the blog and be back as soon as I can. I surely want you all to enjoy the pictures and vids that are still to come!

TTFN, xxx Cynni