Jun 20 2009

Amsterdam 2007 Photos – Finally

Category: Amsterdam,Friends,Personal,PicturesChrisM @ 12:58 am

OK, the 2008 Amsterdam picture series was started back on 10th February this year, just 11 days before Anna was born. Here, finally are the 2007 photos, from my previous trip to Amsterdam. This time Irina did not come, but AlexC and ChrisD met up with me there, and we shared an apartment for four days (21/9/2007 – 24/9/2007).

I’ve checked Lemming was fine with his mug up in public in the 2008 series of pictures, and I’ve blurred anyone else who looked like they might want it. Though in these 2007 pictures, I’m only aware of one person from the forums being involved.

21st April

Stix near our apartment. 1st visit I think of the trip. We have our friend Chris on the left, AlexC on the right, me hiding behind, and a random local behind:) I’ve checked, and any photos presented on the front page, as opposed to behind a ‘click here to read more’ type link, will not be displaying any Dutch herbs, as I don’t want to put off advertisers.

Amsterdam Chris Merriman AlexC ChrisD 2007

The two below are the scene outside the entrance to our apartment. It belonged to Hotel Amstelzicht, just down the road. Yes, I got a bit distracted in Photoshop when I returned, and had a go at making these two shots a little different to the normal point’n’click affairs presented on this blog.
Amsterdam Chris Merriman AlexC ChrisD 2007
Amsterdam Chris Merriman AlexC ChrisD 2007

Right, thats your lot for now, I’ve no idea whether these posts will total a series of 13 again, I need to try and keep load times down on the front page for this blog, as Bluehost seem to be having another go-slow on my server 🙁

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Jun 18 2009

Outside the ‘mega’ shopping co…

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 7:29 pm

Outside the ‘mega’ shopping complex with anna. lots of anna pics to come during next week or so. http://twitpic.com/7pgpq

Anna Mega Shopping Complex Astana

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Jun 12 2009

Anna – Second Week Of June

Category: Anna's Videos,PersonalChrisM @ 12:02 pm

Here we have a quick video of Anna in her bouncy chair, recorded 12th June.

Right, OK, the rest of the videos I’ve uploaded already to YouTube are more recent than Anna’s pictures on this blog, so I’ll go back to catching up with the photos first.

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Jun 11 2009

At Ali Ba Ba, Lying Down

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 3:21 pm

OK, not quite laying on the ground, but using the traditional Kazakh style table and rugs on the floor, rather than the more conventional western style table and chairs, we were at Ali Ba Ba once more with John and Innessa (OK, we were there with their daughter as well, but I forgot to ask if it was OK to publish her name, so I’ll skip that for now).
Anyway, we were all meeting up (11th June) to catch up with each other’s news, before Innessa returned to Britain, where they are having a baby. Anna was very well behaved, and lasted long enough for us to all enjoy the meal and see how the others were doing.

Innessa Anna and John at Ali Ba Ba

Innessa Anna and John at Ali Ba Ba

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Jun 09 2009

Walking The In-Laws Halfway Home

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 3:08 am

Anna’s Babushka and Dedushka hadn’t seen Anna in a while, so they popped over to see us on the 9th June. (Why am I putting the dates these pictures were taken on each of the posts in the Anna’s Photos category? Basically the published date will be altered in the future, to reflect the date they are taken, before I import the post to Anna’s site. To save me re-looking each one up on the hard drive, I’m including the date in the text. This also means that friends and family can have a good idea of Anna’s progress over the weeks, as right now we are still just over seven weeks behind realtime photos. I’m trying to explain this every now and then, in case you haven’t seen the older photos yet.)
So, anyway, when it was time for the in-laws to go home, we decided to combine it with our daily fresh air for Anna walk. We crossed the road at the nice pedestrian crossing (meaning we would be walking next to the park, see 1st photo), rather than risk the zebra crossing or weird traffic light crossing further down the road, and went via the salt water aquarium place (Duman). Stopping for a sit down, the 2nd picture was taken.

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Jun 07 2009

Neck Muscles

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 3:01 pm

The day (7th June) after Igor and Natalya visited, we have a quick couple of shots of Anna on her playmat. In the end we bought two of them, one for at the in-laws, where we stay each weekend, and one for here, back at home. Although the toys, tunes and animal noises are great, at the time of writing this post, we already often have to use a bedspread instead, as Anna has become quite proficient at rolling, and given 10-20 seconds, can be 1/2 way across a room!
Anyway, back 7 weeks or so, when this picture was taken, rolling like that didn’t happen, and Anna’s neck muscles were nowhere near as strong.

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Jun 07 2009

Anna – First Week Of June

Category: Anna's Videos,PersonalChrisM @ 12:02 am

Anna with some more tummy time and playing on her playmat, recorded on 7th June

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Jun 06 2009

Igor And Natalya Come To Visit

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 1:48 am

Our good friends of the family, Igor and Natalya (parents of Losha), came over on the 6th of June to see Anna (for the first time, I think in Natalya’s case). As per normal with guests in the house, we sat down for a meal, and had a drinks, with our little bundle of joy, and the happiness she has bought her grandparents over here, being the subject of a few toasts.
OK, enough of the words, onto the reason for this post… the pictures…

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Jun 05 2009

Toy Overload

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 3:11 pm

Practising her little flying angel routine, Anna is surrounded by some of her toys, laying on the Transaero (a local airline) blanket that has survived a good few years now. This picture was taken on the 5th June.

Anna With Toys On A Blanket

Anna With Toys On A Blanket

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Jun 02 2009

Anna’s First Bow

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 3:06 am

OK, as we come to the end of July, we have already caught up with the first of Anna’s photos from June. The second of June to be precise. It was decided that she finally had enough hair to make wearing a bow look pretty, not just cute, so one was tried on, and photos were taken. Quite a few to be honest, but I think this one looks the best.

Anna Wearing Her First Ever Hair Bow

Anna Wearing Her First Ever Hair Bow

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