Stake Ball

Us right after a dance sweat dripping down our faces...;-)




Last friday there was a ball in Zürich at the Stake House. We went and we had such a nice time there! It was a blast and so much fun ballroom dancing with Lukas and remembering all of the steps and turns we once learned. There was a life band with church members that did such a wonderfull job making music, there were professional ballroom dancers and a very nice dinner. We forgat to make pictures but there was one made there so that`ll still come.
I absolutely love this time of the year with the streets covered with fall leaves, the cold -hat,gloves and warm coat-proof, but often sunny weather here. Preperations for Christmas, lights and decorations everywhere.. Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners coming up this week. In Luzern we have so many Americans now that they organized a Thanks giving dinner at Church this saturday, the day before there will be a 200-man staff Christmas-dinner at the school I work! A Christmas dinner before Saint Nicolaus (Sinterklaas) has even visited us! That seems the wrong way around but I absolutely love this time of the year!
Have a great week, I hope y`all enjoy the end of the November month as much as we do!

P.S. Lukas`s new hobby: baking bread (It makes our appartment smell sooo good I love it!)

P.P.S.
A quote I found (related to exercising -or not exercising):-)
“The difference between tenacity and stubbornness is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.” – Anonymous.

BED

NEWS: Our bed finally arrived!! We were lucky to have exactly 1 hour to rent a truck that was booked out the whole saturday exept for this one hour. Because we lived close by we could rent it. Lukas spent his saturday carrying our matrasses, lattenbodems, and massive wooden pieces of bed (heavy) up our 8 stairs to our roof appartment- and than building the whole thing together. He did a good job and our matrasses are sooooo nice!
We need some time to get used to the space the bed is taking (it seems like it`s consuming the whole bedroom but that`s because its somuch bigger than the matras that used to be there, and probably bc it`s white too..) -But we both love our new `Cinderella bed`. (that`s the official name, no joke;-)

So here are the pictures, I`ll try to get them into the right order this time, and not the wrong way around:))

work

I started working again!
It`s nice to have a distraction and everyone is being so kind and good to me at school. They send me home at noon to rest.. I notice I`m still tired and sleep a lot but I love being back. The weather is nice here, it was kind of rainy and very obviously autumn yesterday, leaves Everywhere but now its nice and sunny again.
Lukas is having fun at school too, he studies hard and is doing well. We heard the mexican flu landed in `central Swiss` now.. That`s our area - but we try not to panic :) jk- we hope to stay healthy and take care of ourselves so our immune systems are able to handle this flu - If it comes..
I`m looking forward going home to HOLLAND in exactly a month to celebrate `sinterklaas` with the whole family! It will be the first time going back since august the 8th and I`m exited.
It`s sinterklaas his b-day at December the 5th, a real old Dutch tradition. Unfortunately Lukas can`t come because he has tests the whole day- how can they possibly plan TESTS at Sint Nicolaus`s birthday???!!
In between, I`m trying everyday to keep my `endo-diet` ( http://www.endo-resolved.com/diet.html ) which in the beginning, seemed impossible to keep...
It`s getting a little better now that I`m used to it but is still hard. All I`m hoping is that it will help a bit in keeping me endometriose free and healthy!

Here are some more pictures; one of our Kitchen Table! The fruitscale and jar are presents from a very special family that came to our Wedding all the way from the States! The Tree is also a wedding present from Lukas`s best man and best friend. The tile is a weddingpresent from my Institute teachers in Holland, and the roses are from Emmeloord, my mom and dad brought them. They stood for at least 3 weeks!
Don`t we have a beautiful Kitchentable? :-)

This is me with short hair again! I love it!! (before-after!)
And.. last but not least, my new Swiss bike!!! I drove it to work the first 1,5 months almost every day. (25 minutes to and 25 back). It`s so nice to be able to get up the hills without having to step off! (I could`t make it with my old dutch bike, it had 3 gears, the new one has 28!! :))

Have a great November month!