February 2018

Visiting Nora's school

We visited Nora's school today, and Nora showed us her work. This is the third and last time we're attending this event with Nora, a bittersweet thought.

She showed us the English words she can read (all the colors, several other short words) and her exercises with multiplication.

No hot chocolate this year.

Topic
Hippo House

De Luizenmoeder

Sunday night 3.7 million households were watching Luizenmoeders, a Dutch TV-show. I read about it in Trouw and then Ettie posted on Facebook that she liked it so we decided to give it a try.

The first episode was the best -- fast-paced and witty. But the 2nd and 3rd weren't bad either.

Topic
movies
By Guus , 6 February 2018

49

5 runs in a row, nice. Felt strong.

By Guus , 4 February 2018

Black ice surprise

Tonight was the Superbowl and it was extremely quiet in Clarendon, except of course in a few bars.

I was caught by surprise by some black ice. I didn't fall but it scared me because I really didn't see it coming. The temperature is around freezing and that street is darker and I guess slightly colder than others.

But I ran now 4 times in a row, awesome. I feel that I have a little more energy, so at one point I wanted to speed up but I remembered the black ice on time.

Nora's first ballet

Sasha to Nora to her first ballet in the Kennedy Center.

They saw Whipped Cream by the American Ballet Theatre.

Topic
theater
By Guus , 1 February 2018

3rd run this week

I think it's been a while since I ran three times in a week. It feels awesome. Good time, too.

Along Fairfax drive I lost sense of time and space and just kept running, in the zone. Felt terrific.