Schneeflöckchen Weissröckchen...

So today half of the Netherlands is down. And with down I mean like, "down for maintenance" or "ligt plat". That is because last night it snowed a little.... about 50 cms in places up north. So now it's chaos on the roads, schools are closed, people can't get to work, busses can't go etc. However... over here in the city there's no excuse not to come to work since I just left my bike at home and took the tram since it would have been too unsafe on a couple of places on the bike (there's one part where it goes downhill into a busy intersection). I still hated the tram.. as usual, but what can I do with weather like this?
To answer that question: I can lean out of my work window and take a photo of our inner courtyard full of snow. And yes, that is indeed loads of snow for Dutch coastal standards. And it just won't stop snowing...

So today we'll check out 2 houses. One tonight and another Angel will see in about 20 minutes in her lunch break. It's exciting, I tell ya! I'll update later tonight with some reports :)

Other than that I'm in a lot of pain (yes, again) because I overstretched my legs... you know... those exercises that you do to stretch... gradually get your legs further apart? For example for "spagat"? Well that I did and those "strings" in my inner thigh are now killing me with my every step... Own fault, so I'll shut up now. :P

PS: Oh and we nearly forgot Homer's birthday again yesterday. Well but we didn't so.... our cute little Homer baby is 5 years old now!!! Which is... erm... 35 in dog years? Wow... he's older than Angel... :P

Update 1 (13:00): Well so Angel says the house she just looked at was so cool that we are going back there on Saturday with a houseperson dude. The house is perfect with only 2 faults: doors to the garden are broken and have to be totally redone, and the bathroom is kinda oldish and cramped.

The house has a garden, 3 bedrooms (+ 1 bedroom/potential walk-in closet) an open living room and kitchen and even a basement where we can stuff all our useless stuffs! It's really close to where we live now, just on the other side of the kanaal and there are enough walking things for the dogs. The people that live in there now also have 3 dogs so the carpets and all have to be replaced, but we're used to that with our own doggies :) So we'll try to find out of the price (very expansive, nearly on our max limit) is worth it (with the doors broken) or if we can push it down more so we can at least still get out th emoney we'd need to fix them doors.
Also all the other people who are interested must not bid on it before us, because then we'd be screwed. And lastly and most importantly we need to get the actual money from the bank and stuff. So it's all crossing fingers and stuff... and also, let's not forget I have not seen it yet, plus we still have another house-touring tonight, of a house which is nearly 100,000 cheaper... but does not have a garden... we'll see. I'll keep you up to date.

Update 2 (15:45): So... we're going back Friday afternoon with a real estate agent and if I like it as well and the agent knows the value etc of things we will make an offer... so let's hope that till then nobody else buys it already. I'm not gonna post pictures of say the adres because that's bad luck.. :P So you'll have to wait and see if we'll buy it. :) Dana, the bedroom we picked for you is really nice and big so you should be happy there too :D

So now we'll still look at the other house (two-houses-in-one-construction) because you never know. I'll report about that one later, when we come back tonight. Whua... I'm all giddy and hyper and I dare not hope... but I secretly do anyways...