A bit about my Holiday back in Grunn ^-^

Hey everyone!

I'm back in my room in Southampton again.... missing everyone already! But I must say, it's a lot less bad then when I got here in September. Mostly because I got really good friends now XD

So a bit about my x-mas holiday back home. It was the best! but it was over so quickly O.o; I did loads of things and I enjoyed every minute of it. When I first got home I could only think about having to go back to Soton again and missing everyone again, but a few days later I realised I simply had to enjoy the time I had in Groningen.

So the stuff I did:
I got a hair cut! yay! really needed that XD I went to Beetsterzwaag to see some friends and had loads of fun playing games and watching The Bourne Ultimatum with Gijs. The best movie ever! and nice and cosy on the couch with Gijs ^-^
Then I went to Ilse and played Wii fit with her and her mom, which was hilarious! Then I also went to her fathers' and he taught me how to meditate, which is really helping me relax now. I try to meditate for 5 minutes every morning and it really helps me focus :D Also we went shopping of course, but not just once. We shopped 3 days in a row!!!! O.O OMG! First on the Friday I went shopping with mom, then on Saturday I went shopping with Ilse for some last minute x-mas presents and then on the Sunday I went shopping with Ilse again, spending some of the money I got for x-mas! XD

You should know that on the Saturday night we did the x-mas presents under the tree at home. Ilse was there, because it was fun and she wanted to be at my place for a bit as well. We got her some presents (last minute) as well and unpacked gifts for about 2 hours! Mom and Dad went all out for us 3 (me and my sisters) and got us money to spend! yeeey! ^.^ So on the Sunday the shops were open, so we couldn't resist to go shopping again XD.

Okay so.... then after the x-mas weekend, we went to the actual start of x-mas: the Wednesday evening mass in Church. It was a great mass and we had christmass breakfast at Inge and Harold's. The next day mom and I worked more on preparing the christmass diner (which we had already started doing on Wednesday) and we had the diner in the evening. It was great! The menu was:
- Duck and Pork Pathe with cranberry sauce
- A Salmon terrine with avocado stuffing and a lemony dressing
- A wild mushroom soup
- Spoom (champagne with icecream) with a raspberry sorbet
- The main course: Duch breast with a pumkin/ squash risotto and baby carrots
- The dessert (the most important dish ever!): Mini pavlova with raspberries, a chocolate truffel cake and a passion fruit pot (sort of like a passion fruit puddingy-thingy O.o;)
- Tea, coffee, cappucino and a game (Kolonisten van Catan obviously! Duhh (in English the game would be called Settles of Catan btw. just if you were interested *-*))
And that was our Christmas diner XD

Then the Saturday we went to the NK Allround in Heerenveen to see the speedskating and of course Sven Kramer! ^-^ I took loads of pictures, but most of them are rubish. I'll try to upload some of them later.

Sunday I went to Inge to scan a load of points for her and had fun with her and with helping Eliana with her homework :D Then we had diner at our place and played some more Catan x_x

Tuesday me, mom, dad and Lotte went for a walk in the park behind our house and walked on water! OMG! O.O ...... not really actually..... we walked on frozen water... whoopie, such a let down of our alleged superpowers O.o; oh well... the ice was really thick as it was freezing for a couple of days already and it was round -6, -8 degrees C this day. The ice was about 8 cm I guess, so we had fun walking and sliding on the ice. Lots of pics were taken... duhh..... what else to do with a camera if you have one? XD mwuhahahahaha :) (The pics will be on the right somewhere) So we had a nice walk and in the evening had a nice diner in Overstag in the city (had duck breast again! hehehe ^-^)

So that's about it.... next day I flew back to Cardiff with Wendy and went to bed after wishing her parents and her sister a happy new year over skype. It was only 11 pm where we were, but we were totally and utterly nackered.... so we missed the fireworks in Wales.... unfortunately, but I'm sure I wouldn't have been awake to see it even if I tried. When we were in bed, I think it took us about 2 seconds to fall asleep O.o;

Now I'm back in Soton.... had my first in-class-test today (went okay, but am not really sure untill I get the results (obviously)) and scheduled my vaccinations! O.O OOhhh nooo what have I done! *-* they're against HPV which can cause cancer in the uterus, so with the medical history of my family I'd better get it.... but I really don't want to! >.<

Oh one more thing. Sheena's birthday was last Saturday and it was Awesomeeee! We all had to bring something to eat or drink so I made a pavlova with apple and bananas (just because they didn't have any other fruit in the co-op that day o.o;) and there was loads of other good stuff there! So I ate loads XD There was lots of stuff left as well. One of Sheena's friends took about 60 cans of beer with him expecting lots of drinking to go on. But Sheena is still stuck with the beer I think, because most people took to the soda, vodka and cocktail stuff :D But it was loads of fun, we played poker and other card games as well and I really did eat too much x_x Anyway it was good!

So now you are kinda up to date I think.... the pics of our wintery walk are on the right. Love you all! (I think, unless some pervert pedo is reading this, then I don't love you O.o;)
Kisses!
~xxx~ Fleur ^-^