Visit to Poland

Last week, we've been to Poland again. Nowadays it's still nice, but more work related than anything else. We've been busy with finding a suitable office location for Variomatic Poland. So Jola and I visited together about 10 locations varying from very old with lots of renovation needed to completely renovated and ready to go locations.
But in the end we think it has been fruitful, as we have found one location that we think could really be it. 90 square meters and just renovated, which means that from 1st December on we can start to furnish it and then we have our office there. Stil need a final go from the rest of the management here in Holland, but I don't foresee any problems there.
This indeed also means that it gets closer and closer that we ourselves move to Poland. Order is to first have office location and then start to look for ourselves and in the meantime we can sit either in Jola's flat in Legnica or temporary with her parents.
Exciting times! But sometimes also a bit scary.

Jola's birthday

It's Jola's birthday and we celebrated it in a nice restaurant in Hilversum. Jola got a nice present for her birthday, a nice new agenda in her favorite color... pink.

Jola is jarig en we hebben dat gevierd in een nieuw restaurant in Hilversum. Voor haar verjaardag heeft Jola een nieuwe agenda gekregen in haar favoriete kleur... roze.

Jola's birthday

Today it's Jola's birthday and although it's not a Polish tradition we do celebrate it together today.
How old did Jola get? Well, you know that you are not supposed to ask that question about a lady.
What did she get from you? Well... a very nice pinky leather agenda that fits her like a tee.
And 32 pinky roses. Yes, pinky is Jola's colour very much this moment.

And this evening we're going out to a Japanese restaurant to celebrate it some more.

Happy birthday Jola!!!!

Jerry

Meet Jerry... or Ibro because that is his official name, but we probably are going to call him Jerry (after Jerry Macquire).
Jerry is now 3 months old (on the picture he is younger) and we are going to collect him probably this Sunday in Wrocław (Poland). A chocolate brown labrador retriever that is going to our newest assett.
Why a dog? I thought the two of you were working both a lot with achieving your goals in Poland?
True, but still we see opportunities and think that Jerry will also bring some discipline in our household, and most of all we think he is going to give us a lot of joy! To see him growing up, to play with him, to walk with him, to see him sleep a lot when he is still young.

And to be honest... isn't he a sweety!!!!!!!

Our plan

Are we too spontaneous or did we make the right choice when we decided together this weekend to look for a nice dog for us?
Don't know the answer yet, but do know that we are both now very much investigating the internet for information about which dog, race and names.
This is probably what we are looking for... and the name? That's still a secret :-)