Now the rain comes...

Another week is behind me here in the Netherlands.  Carnaval is over for this year, and normalcy of day to day life in Venlo returned on Wednesday.  All the festivities were captured on local television and there were people dressed up everywhere (even the supermarket).  Though some colleagues take the entire week off, there were enough in the office to keep it hopping...today, it started raining and it reminds me of home so I made a cup of Tim Horton coffee this evening to reminisce.

The remaining furniture I was missing was delivered Thursday morning and I now have an extremely comfortable bed which reminds me of mine at home.  The spare room is now set up for visitors...My replacement car also arrived (a little sporty Renault - very nice with similar bells and whistles to the Volvo I had but smaller).  It is easier to maneuver and park.   I discovered where the household garbage goes (out front in a special container which looks more like a small post box than a garbage container).  Now if I can only get the dishwasher working, I am in heaven. 

I have not decided what I may do this weekend.  I will see if the rain lets up.  I have a few errands to run so staying at the apartment this weekend may be best.  Then I could jump over to Germany and maybe visit Cologne - it is about 1.5 hour drive.

sprechen Sie in Kürze (German for Talk soon),

Mary