Door Love

I didn't buy either one

But both made me smile.

Street Art Love

Portland Snow

Meanwhile...in Portland...look what our neighbors are up to!  Urban snow days are so special (boston! paris!) !

So fun to see our crew and our street and even our house in this video.  HammyT forever!  See you in 2015!

Photo below is MC, from his FB page.  Love.

Of course all of this coverage from the PDX storm, and the neighbors making the most of it, reminds me of the last big one...so much fun! 

Dutch Dominate the Ice

I am certainly not the only one with Olympic fever around here.  In fact, the Dutch are mad for Olympics...specifically speed skating.  This WSJ article was interesting - yeah for bikes!  The photo below, from the article, is of Sven Kramer.

 He is a household name in these parts...even in this house.  Sven is a big deal.

Here is a shot of the Gazelle bikes in Olympic Village, provided by and for the Dutch team, to make them feel at home.  Love.  Photo from here.  

For such a tiny country...the Netherlands is certainly putting up some impressive Olympic results.  I think they already have 7 medals, including a sweep in the mens 5k.  Photo below from cnn. 

That Russian dude, Putin, even popped in to the Heineken house for a beer with the dutch King and Queen.

Perhaps Orange is the new gold?

Public Potty

Random post: I don't think I've ever mentioned that we have urinals like this all over town. They are only for boys, they are barely private, and they are everywhere.

Bronze is the new Gold

The Olympic Spirit is captured in this article and these pictures.   Every time I look at these pictures I feel like she is going to jump off of my screen squealing.  What a day, what an athlete!

Going For It

Update: BRONZE BRONZE BRONZE!  She is amazing!    Can't wait to see her on the podium!  Too cool!  

Today is an amazing day to go for gold and Julia is halfway there!!!

SuperJules laid down an amazing downhill run to position her amazingly well for a medal today.  She is  going for gold in 10 minutes.  We are on the edge of our seats here in Amsterdam!  Go Julia Go!!!!

 The pix below are from December...

portlandsunshine is 6 today!

Happy blog birthday to my little blog

Olympics!

What is not to love about the Olympics!  We are having fun watching as much as we can, though it is hard to find coverage of anything beyond speed skating on Dutch television - thank goodness for the WWW.  All posters from this (honestlyWTF) post are fabulous, these two were especially interesting to me for obvious reasons!  Go USA.

Full Frontal

Today is the grand opening of the newest museum in town.  Fascinating.  Sad.  Crazy.

House Plants

This window, which I often pass because it is right by school, always leaves me wishing I had a green thumb.