Housewarming

After talking about it for about a month, Brian and I finally got organized enough to have a housewarming party last night. I was a bit nervous about it because I don't consider myself much of a hostess, but we had a lot of fun and I think everyone else enjoyed themselves as well. Our place isn't huge so we couldn't have a ton of people, but I think at one point there was somewhere around 20 guests - a mix match of Brian's co-workers, their significant others, neighbors, a few former Portlanders (friends-of-friends that happened to move to Amsterdam at the same time as us), and a hodgepodge of Finnish people we didn't know.

Unfortunately, despite my good intentions, my camera never made it out of my purse all night - meaning we have absolutely zero photos to post. But the good thing is that it was not as traumatizing of an experience as I thought it might be, so we may actually have another party again in the semi-near future - and I will be sure to post photos from that!

Also, we found out from our neighbors that we are actually living on a street that has been nominated for the past ten out of eleven years as the most beautiful street in Amsterdam - we knew it was pretty, but had no idea it was that pretty! So I thought I'd post a photo of Henri Polaklaan (our street's name, if you hadn't guessed) so you don't feel completely bogged down by text:

Pretty, right? The zoo is at the very end of the street.

Also, here's a pretty cute picture of Fishstick, if you're wondering what he's up to these days:

He's pretty happy, and yes, very warm and cozy.

- Krista