Trying wedding dresses

This was a great appointment I made wit my friend Ela to try wedding dresses.
Although we didn't buy anything yet we had enormous fun there.
Already trying a dress makes you feel like a princess. At covers we got helped by a nice lady Wil Sluis. And who knows we might get back there.

Being Ill

And yes, it happened. Seeing all kinds of people around me sniffing, coughing and speaking with low voices, yesterday I also got caught by the virus. All day I felt bad, headache, feeling of being distant, throatache. And today when I woke up I noticed that my voice was about 2 octaves lower than normal, I couldn't swallow anymore, my neckarea is completely painful, etc.. So I decided to stay at home today. Having a good sleep till 11:30 and now just sitting behind the tele, reading the newspaper and checking my emails from work. With some aspirin and some vitamine shots I hope I'm feeling better quickly.

Free Polish TV

And finally, the new gadget has arrived. A new satellite dish, an LNB and a digital receiver with inculded card. So on sunday it began. Installing the satellite on the roof, trying to find the Astra satellite and watching 100s of programs in DVD quality. But, unfortunately no Polish channels, and basically that was why we bought the thing. After some surfing on the internet, I found the following link: Free TV from Poland - LyngSat, which has an overview of available Polish channels. Only thing I had to do was to change the satellite again from 19,2 east to 13 east (whatever that means :-) ) and now we have 6 Polish programs on the Hotbird group of satellites.

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Finally Friday

And so the weekend has started and time for us to have some fun. Jan is going to the reunion of one his previous companies framfab and I am going to the house party at Couper's Cafe

wedding location

It starts to be very exciting as 1st arrangments for the wedding are being made. My parents were investigating various locations in area of Legnica prefered by us. They discovered that they are all booked!! There is a chance today that we will get a place for our prefered date (7th Aug) in qubus hotel

Polish wedding site

This is an interesting wedding page in Polish.

First entry Jola

This is my 1st entry on the eyckenstein weblog. As an official weblog (on my business card) it's time to start some writings.

New born babies

Yep, I'm 33 and my girlfriend is 30. So around us our friends are having children or pregnant. And yes, when you visit someone in the hospital who just got twins it's cool and makes you think about your own future. Unfortunately, I was ill yesterday so we couldn't practice for the children when we went to bed :-) But here a picture of the lovely twins.

Poland and pool

On Jola's parents last day we decided to play some pool in town. Here, Jola in action, her mother , and her father. Quite an great evening again in which we had drinks, fun and competition (although not so much :-) ).

Birthday Jola

Pictures will follow, but on 9 November Jola got 30 years young :-) Waking up not too early after all our work, during breakfast we, Jola's parents and me, gave her her presents and sang song birthday songs. Later that day my parents joined in and we made some music, had some drinks and after that went together to a lovely Japanese restaurant, which was a new experience for the joined parents. A lovely day.

Parents

Jola's parents joined us on november 8 to help us with moving in the new house. Always a cool and nice experience. Together with my parents they helped us a lot with lifting heavy stuff, sewing curtains, and proper cleaning. I know that, except for my father, they will not read this log, but still I would like to thank all four of them for their help during this first week in our new house.

Getting married!

On the first day we got our house we decided to celebrate it in the evening in the new place with some champagne, and I thought this was the right moment to pop the question to Jola. And so I did, her eyes closed and me on my knees (how romantic)... asking her to marry me and offering an engagement ring. And?.... the answer was "YES". So from now on at home we are discussing rings, cars, locations, invitations, and of course... dresses. I'll keep you updated!

BTW It will probably happen on 7 August 2004 in Poland!

Moving part 1

It's been a little quiet on the log, but that's due to us getting our new house. From November 4th on we have the key and we've been painting and moving. On thursday 6th we already stayed at our new home and it feels good :-) Pictures of the house will follow in a later posting.

Male modelling

Yes, it's there... I'm now famous on the Internet. Through my work I was asked to be a male model for the Flower Council Holland, and so I did. A paper catalog with more pictures of me will follow soon.Holland T-shirt