and it keeps going :)

in case you happen to be starting to read here you may want to head down a couple entries. i gave an update about water polo and started the whole picture montage with my friends. you should check it out!

well so here it continues. with the ice. man the sound of breaking ice is absolutely amazing. if you've never done it, find a pond crack some ice and drop it. simple as that.


of course meike is good at finding good climbing trees. i was ground fotographer ;) they were having a lot of fun


so when i got back from budapest the second time jon kelly and maxi were there with some skates. so we headed out. haha i didnt even change out of my ZVL gear. for the record, no you can not slide on only your jacket and running. but if your friend pulls you then that is a whole nother thing ;) just ask kelly


amazing action shot of jon in actual motion


so we were trying to take a group picture and this is what we get. muahahhahaha. so funny. kelly looks so cute!


there we are. ice skating crew!


so i made them go behind some wheats growing out of the side of the canal to create a jungle scene. yeah pictures werent that good but it was hilarious! jon the prey, maxi the lion, and kelly the hunter


CHRISTMAS!!! we went to meike's and this was us lighting there really cool cool tree!


we wore dresses to meike's house and we look really really pretty. the table was so nice. it totally looked like the movies! like how the dinners are in christmas time with snow outside and stuff.


you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA!! how amazing this desert was!! it was so sosososososo good. i never wanted it to end. and we had some amazing desert wine to go along with it. like i couldn't control my reactions since it was all like WOW!


meike's dad made this tree. and it comes apart so they can take it with them anywhere that they want to in the world. so cute! we had some awesome heart to hearts with meike's parents. they are such cool people with a very interesting life.



this was part of the little party at my place. can you guess what they are? maxis a detective and kelly is safari jane. muahahaha


meike's brother. i am secretly trying to marry him. not sure if he knows yet. if i cant be an adopted de Nooy, i have to try other options ;) haha



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i just went on this last minute amazing trip to go snowboarding with my friend pete. here are some pictures of the endeavour...
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so this was this cute little man in geneva on his moped



this is out the window of the flat that we stayed in chamonix. yeah not too bad of a view


this is that mountain that you can't see in the other picture!




on the way up in a cable car. amazing amazing views ;)


ski lifts with snowboards


ok seriously the longer you look at this picture the younger i become! i mean i look like i am 8 after a while. it is an optical illusion



yeah only 1 1/2 days and thats me being a superstar! woohoo



hold on i have one of my snowboarding sponsors calling on the other line. muahaha, just kidding ;)


and so it ends. and the sun sets. and the boarders wait to go back down



i have to admit that was a pretty amazing last month. i want to thank everyone who made the trek to come to see me. i mean it was completely at the right time in a very nice recharging way. i had such a great great time. so just think you too could have fun, just come down and visit britt!!

this is what has kept me smiling :)

so here is the update of friends and funness. don't worry i am managing to squeeze in some good laughs every once in a while ;)

jon ching is in the hood! yeah this cat flew over to come visit me during his break. pretty sweet stuff if you ask me.

we were just hanging out in rotterdam. we rode bike there and i managed to get us all nice and lost! haha i never bike into the city. we found the 4 flats that jon, richmond, casey and are going to live. its right on the water here


nice balancing act



so karin was still home when jon was here so we had a little party. meike came on down. and we drank some massive bottles of wine with our amazing meal that we cooked. well i just chopped things while jon and meike masterminded everything.



seriously only 1! of the 10 million of us trying to ALL get in there


oh meike so cute. it took a lot of her not to crack up while i told her sweet nothings to try to capture that face. muahahaha


really how did this happen?? i mean one second i am eating all the chocolate and the next i am covered in whip cream. yeah thanks karin!


hey why dont we play some reggage music and skank around in the netherlands! oh yeah :)


i finally lead jon and i home ;)


dont take that cute little look as being a nice cat. this is what i call "le diable chat"" which means devil cat. me and this thing did not get along and she gave me hell while i was at meikes house


thanks to jon's amazing picture taking skills and meike and i having some sexy eyes this picture happened


we went biking to meike's forest. it included throwing ice on ice and driving through water on our bikes. AND stepping in a GIANT pile of poo.


beautiful hands, beautiful picture. jon did it


man sometimes you just have to run. and this was one of those days and those places


and don't forget to kick up the leaves :)



more continued on the next entry...

water polo...ness

so i decided since i lack in the land of updates this will be my 3 part series of what just happened in the last umm.. month.. well so here it goes. go grab some cookies and a cup of coffee or something and get ready for this. this is part one entitled 'water polo' which will be followed by 'friends and randomness' and to be concluded with 'other things that happened that dont fit in between there and i can't think of something more clever' ( might shorten that bit)

basically a quick little background to not get confused..

i play on the team ZVL which is in Leiden
i play with iefke and not with meike or karin
ZVL is the #1 team in the netherlands right now
we also play in the european cup which is with other top teams around europe
so when i fly to a foriegn land it is for the european cup
this is ZVL's first time in the european cup

okies that should be sufficient..

well we went to budapest for the first time and we played against some really good teams. funny thing was that we played against monica's team from germany. monica was my cute german friend from back in hawaii. we ended up winning against them which was a bit unusual. since they are considered really good but it was a good game. we ended up 2nd out of that tournament which was really good. that means that we advance to the next round. the bummish thing about the whole adventure was that we didn't get to see any nice bits of budapest. we were only in dunjavaros which is about 2 hours away from the centre. blah a little bummed about that but i am sure i will get back there one of these days.

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when we get back within a few days we find out that we are going back to budapest! not in the same place, but somewhere closer to the centre. that is pretty cool. i was a bit excited about that. i was like yeah i can finally see some of it. but yup now we were an hour away from the centre :P so same story

this time we ended up doing really, really well! we played against this russsian team and ended up winning. they were some crazy team that has never lost a spot to the final 4 in like 3 million year or something. so that was pretty sweet to knock them out.

yeah had a migraine in the beginning of the trip, so yeah that was not a very nice treat. now we move on to the top 8 semi-finals!!

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now that we have found out who we have to play in the semis and hey guess where it is? no, not in greece or italy or spain or ANYWHERE other than budapest. but yeah is in budapest! we ended up getting matched up against the 1st budapestian team that we played and now we must get rid of them to make it into the final 4. we have a really good chance at it, since we only lost by 1 to them. we will see how that goes!


well water polo news is over
here are some pictures...


here we are in our sexy sexy robes! if you can't find me, i am the shortest one with the biggest robe!





this is my roomies on our first budapest trip. we had the best room :D



this is me doing something important in the game. the funniest part of this whole picture is iefke's face, not sure if you can see it or not ;)




here is some team photos. all cute in our little gear after we are in budapest (the second time)


with our lovely bouquet of flowers after on of our water polo matches.