OK, so with these photos, it is still April 20 2008, we have arrived in Amsterdam (finally, after connecting flight problems from Kazakhstan the day before), we’ve met some very nice people (fellow Amsterdam forum members) who helped chill me out the day before, and even grouped together to get me a birthday present (I’ll give you one guess 😉 ), found our apartment, been for a walk, and it is now 4.20pm on 4/20 (US date style) , and we’re heading to the 420 cafe to meet up with fellow forum members.
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Feb 17 2009
Amsterdam 2008 Photos #5
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Feb 16 2009
Six Days
It has been seven days since Ira’s first due date for our daughter, and six days since I stopped smoking cigarettes. That was my limit it seems, as I stomped off to the shop this morning to get a pack. Obviously it would have been wonderful if I had given up completely, but nearly a week off the fags at least has some small financial & health benefit.
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Feb 13 2009
Amsterdam 2008 Photos #4
I am trying to post these in something resembling logical batches, so here we have what happened after we arrived. Having been given a birthday present at the airport, I managed to resist the urge to roll something immediately and took a few shots of the flat (see previous post) before it got too messed up.
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Feb 11 2009
Amsterdam 2008 Photos #3
So by this time we have obviously arrived in the apartment. I took a few snaps of the place for future use (a proper review on the place will be in a separate post sometime. Given the amount of time it has taken to get these photos up, I’d not hold your breath 🙂 ). In the mean time, you can check out his site over here.
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Feb 11 2009
The Beginning?
Irina is pacing around the house, really quite restless right now. Not comfortable or content staying in any one place too long, we’re wondering if this is the start of anything, or still ‘just’ the warm up in the days before labour? Anyway, we’ll keep people updated if anything happens. I’m currently 33% done on clearing out some old posts that were doing nothing for this blog, and have a couple more Amsterdam posts almost complete, I’ll try and post them later…
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Feb 11 2009
Amsterdam 2008 Photos #2
Here we have landed a day late in Amsterdam, and met a couple of fellow forum visitors. Birthday presents were given, and this day seemed to be going a lot better than the day before, and it wasn’t even midday yet! We hopped on a tram to the general area of the apartment, and used GPS for the last few minutes walk. The last shot was how the rest of the world looked once we had arrived inside the flat and met the nice man Paul.
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Feb 10 2009
Amsterdam 2008 Photos – Finally
Before my life is taken over my nappies, changing mats & cute shoes, I wanted to try and catch up with tasks in real life, and bits I’d never quite got to finishing on the blog. So, here are the first of some Amsterdam April 2008 shots.
As you may remember from my ramblings at the time, a problem with flights had meant we missed the last connection from Frankfurt to Amsterdam on the 19th by mere minutes.
Anyway, we grabbed a couple of hours of sleep in a nearby hotel, got up for my Birthday and decided we would try and make today run a little better. A beautiful sight of some bunnies frolicking on the lawn below our window. Glad of the few hours rest we’d had, we got ready and headed to the airport for the first flight out Amsterdam. We were NOT going to be missing the 4.20pm meet on 4/20 at the coffeeshop 420 🙂
Anyway, more of that later, have these as a taster of the posts to come. I’ll try and put up the ones from 2007 later, with Chris and Alex…
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Feb 10 2009
10th February T +1 ?
Irina is still doing fine, but no signs of a quick drive to the hospital have yet been observed. Not a great deal to write now, just wanted to keep people updated, as some have been asking what the situation is now. AlexC is now coming over to Britain from Australia for three weeks, which is brilliant, as she’ll be able to meet our baby, we’ll be able to meet Mat for the first time ever, and we’ll see her for the first time since she came to Astana back in 2007(?).
As you may have noticed, I’ve been experimenting with different ways to update this blog, facebook, twitter and so on simultaneously, from a mobile device. This has led to a few v.short posts, sometimes without explanation. If something makes no sense whatsoever, it is probably a tweet @ someone that didn’t work out again 🙂
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Feb 09 2009
Location And Alcohol Level
Some friends have asked will I be present at the birth, or getting very drunk in a bar somewhere. I’m hoping to be conscious, in the delivery room with Irina. Having promised no live webcasts for the delivery itself already, it didn’t seem like too much of an issue to drop the whole camcorder idea altogether. We are still taking the stills camera, so we can grab a few clips on that as well. I think I just wanted to have a nice quality record of the first few precious moments. Now I’m beginning to realise that getting it all digitally recorded or attempting live videocasting to Kazakhstan would all just take me away from the beauty of the moment. Once we’re back at home, I’ll try and update friends with news as and when I can.
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Jan 31 2009
Happy Birthday Irina
Today is my beautifully pregnant wife’s birthday. We are all heading over to a nice restaurant in the evening with another Irina and her boyfriend. I’ll try to remember to take some shots, I’m just hoping it will be someone else’s turn to stay sober tomorrow – we need to have someone who can drive 24/7 now, as Ira already counts as full term, if the baby had been born already.
Another 10 days until the first predicted date (9th Feb), the other being the 13th. Given the randomness of nature, who knows when the happy event will occur?
I hope Ira (and lyolik) have a great time tomorrow, and that she displays her joy-inducing smiles at some point 🙂
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