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12/14 - 01/01 Christmas lights & New Years Eve fireworksLow quality (pocket camera) but still a bit atmospheric pics of christmas lights and New Year's eve's fireworks in our street. See also this great video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibd65rzjjvg 
11/17 party Christel & Leendert25th wedding anniversary party from our neighbours (2 doors down) Christel & Leendert in the local pub. Fun times with a whole group of (most of our) neighbours! 
11/16 Fates Warning & Pagans Mind in Weertmeeting a lot of friends in Weert at the Fates Warning & Pagan's Mind gig, resulting in many blurry pics ;) 
10/27 - 10/28 Thorsten and Katrins visitour friends T and Kati from Frankfurt came over for a weekend, on Saturday we went to Valkenburg and dinner at Mujo, on Sunday we went for a walk near castle Terworm here in Heerlen. 
09/30 Brunssummerheide with Carin & Jannekewhen Carin and Janneke (and their dogs Luna and Dink) from Arnhem visited us, we went for a walk on the Brunssummerheide 
09/21 GaiaParkfor Marlies' birthday we visited the beautiful local zoo, the GaiaPark in Kerkrade. The weather was great and afterwards we ended up at one of our favorite restaurants, Mujo steakhouse, for dinner. 
09/15 - 09/16 trip to Alkmaarvisiting Angelique, Michiel and their cats in Alkmaar (and Marc, Brenda & kids on our way up there - they are about to emigrate to Canada!) 
09/01 party at Anneke & CordysAnneke and Cordy celebrated their birthday together this year (pics by Anneke) 
08/22 Testament - Hof Ter Lo, Antwerp (B)thanks to merch guy Walter, we saw Testament live again and made pics with all the members (and a few Dutch people we know) :) - video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8eUkXpQbQ 
07/19 - 07/20 Nicos exam results and Marlies surprise at workafter the great news that Nico passed his Canadian RN exam, this is how I found my workplace the next morning! Petra was the culprit, she covered everything with prints of the CA flag, CA map and a pic of the legislature in Regina. Awesome!! 
07/18 - 08/06 several summer pics at homepics from several dates in July and August: clouds, a hedgehog, a heron, Thorsten visiting, (cleaned up) yard pics 
06/26 view over Heerlen from the Glass PalaceIn the morning Marlies was at the top floor of the Glass Palace (Glaspaleis) in Heerlen for a work project and used the opportunity to take some pics from the view. Unfortunately it was cloudy. 
06/26 sheep on the BrunsummerheideFor a late lunch we went to the Brunsummerheide to have pancakes at the restaurant there. The flock of sheep on the nature reserve happened to be right there when we were done, so we stayed to watch them for a while. 
05/25 work outing: pool, mystery dinnerworking outing Marlies: shooting some pool and then a mystery dinner at the Grand Hotel: had to solve a murder case and got soup, a cold buffet, a warm buffet and desserts in between :) Walking back to the city hall, I took pics of the Pancratiusplein 
04/29 Brunssummerheide (Brunssum Heathland)some pics of the Brunssum Heathland (Brunssummerheide) - videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-A9zAKQxk - www.youtube.com/watch?v=er6-sBwgiqg 
04/07 Kennedy Marchwe joined our neighbours the Brouwers to the Kennedy March, a yearly hiking event (80 km) in our province. Rob, Daniel and some friends walked in it, the rest was the supporting crew:) 
03/16 - 03/19 weekend in the Peel regionjust a little get-away weekend in Bospark de Bikkels in Vlierden, which is in the beautiful Peel region, known for his forests, peat moors and marsches 
02/15 Burgundian Chinese dinnereach Thursday before Carneval our friend Erik organizes a 'Burgundian' Chinese dinner... meaning: come dressed up and NO use of your hands nor tools allowed! Pics are from my cellphone, hence the poor quality |
