Collis Day Out

On Saturday we had an organised work day out from Collis. Miki got to meet loads of my work colleagues finally!

We went to Wijk aan Zee, which is North West of Amsterdam. We started off with drinks and chatting, whilst everyone arrived. The day consisted of 3 beach activities in teams and was rounded off with a BBQ.

First of all we played some beach volley ball, which I was supremely crap at. Miki was quite good at serving, but she ended up with a bruised thumb!

After that we went on to create sand sculptures. Our team wanted to create something bigger than the tower that the previous team had made, so we decided to make a wedding cake. It was decorated in sea shells and we even carved a slice out of it, whilst one of my colleagues took a photo of Miki and I cutting the cake!

The third activity was rafting on the sea. It was very windy and the waves were quite huge! We had fun when actually in the boat and Miki was proud that she managed to stay in the boat and not fall out! We had drifted quite far and needed to get out and drag the boat through the shallow water back to the start which was exhausting! Miki had trouble getting into the boat the second time and ended up being half drowned so we sat out the second trip and went swimming in the shallows instead, which is what we had both really wanted to do in the first place...

We finished off with a nice BBQ at a cafe on the beach which was our centre of operations for the day. My boss then gave a speech, handed out Leonidas chocolates to everyone. We stayed and chatted for a long time and nearly everyone else had left by the time we went.

Miki got a bit burned and we both ache all over now, we are so unfit!



- Steve

New Contract

I was called into a meeting with my boss Dirk Jan yesterday and had an ominous feeling about it, but it turned out that he had my new contract! I have been working on a six month contract and that has nearly run out, but my new contract is an indefinate one (good for securing a mortgage on a new house!) and includes a 100 Euro a month pay raise. Yay!

- Steve.

Devon & Reading Holiday

From 4th - 14th June we were in Devon and Reading on holiday. We saw an aweful lot of stuff and I plan to make a special section about what we did on our site. We travelled over 2451km in the car, I ate 4 cream teas in 7 days and we had very sore feet at the end!



See Miki's photoset on Flickr: Devon

I will also be uploading a lot of pictures, so I will post a link then.

-- Steve

Getting Married!!!

We had a fantastic time on holiday in the last two weeks (seperate Blog coming soon) , but on Friday we were in Paris and I proposed to Miki at the top of the Eiffel Tower! She said "Yes!" and our plan is to marry next year. We want to marry on the 16th June 2006 as this will be our three year anniversary of the day we first spoke to each other :D



YYYAAAYYY!

- Steve.

Holiday

Yay! Today is our last working day before our holiday. We are going to be spending a week in Devon, three days with Steve's parents, one day back in Utrecht and then on to Paris for another three days!

A busy schedule for sure with lots of driving, but we are prepared and we have road trip music. See you all in two weeks!

Een jaar samenwonen!

I have officially been living in the Netherlands for exactly a year today! It's been a real adventure and I've loved every bit of it. It also means that Miki and I have been living together for one year and loving it! By this time next year we WILL be in our new house!

- Steve