So, my brother accompanied me to Luxembourg last weekend. We went on Saturday (after his work) and could luckily enough tag along with Pieter – going by car is so much more pleasant :). Since we went after Rogier finished working, we still arrived quite late, so we had to bring something to eat. Well, after careful consideration that became bottles filled with pancake mix :) :)
It had been a long time since I had eaten pancakes, but after last week, I have definitely had my fill for the near future. Both Rogier and me brought a PET-bottle (i.e. 1.5 liter)… of course we didn’t finish that in one go, but still.
Rogier’s visit prompted me to check out Luxembourg a bit more, and guess what: there is actually life there! Saturday evening, after the pancakes, we biked to the area where Sasa, Baptiste, Pieter and me spotted people going out the previous time. As luck would have it, we found a nice place, ran into a couple of Flemish girls and had a nice evening. (Btw, later heard from Ann that her headache had lasted quite some time… poor girl).
Sunday, after breakfast with pancakes, we went to the Mudam museum. It is a museum for modern art, but the reason Rogier wanted to go there was to view the architecture – it was designed by the same architect as the glass pyramid at the Louvre, apparently. Well, the architecture was captivating – a lot more than the exposition, in my opinion.
In the evening we started to watch Pulp Fiction (note to Mark: it is the first movie I have watched on the DVD player since moving to Lux! :), when suddenly there was a knock on the door. Sjouke & family were there, so we stopped the movie and before you know it, we were bongoing all the way :) We’ve sort of bongoed every evening this week actually :) After Tessa & Daniel had to go to bed, Rogier & me finished Pulp Fiction. Weird movie, I had seen some scenes, but most was new to me.
Monday we slept late, then I went in for a quick 30 minutes of working (which became a slow 1 hr of working…) to finally finish the BFR. Well, we did! Woohoo! Another issue out of the way. On top of that I was also partly arranging the SaToSS kickoff event (which would be on Wednesday), so it wa a good thing to be in at work – for a short while at least. After that, we went to the Auchan and I spent a small fortune ;-) Well, there were some things that would be convenient in the house: speakers for my laptop, a quickloader for rechargeable batteries, table cloths, pillows, pillow covering, an extra set of wrenches, some hooks to be able to hang stuff, etc. This turned out magnificantly: That night, Rogier could actually use a pillow, we dined from a table with table cloths, and I now have a “coathanger” (some hooks in the wall, but it works wonders).
Tuesday Rogier was going to .nl again, so we got up a bit early, and walked to the city centre, checked stores there, walked onwards to the station and checked the stores there, got him his ticket, waved him off and then, on the way back, found a store which I think he would’ve appreciated (a combination of expo, blokker and xenos, with prices like in a dump store). Aah well, can’t win ’em all.