Home, sweet new home, ikea the black hole and other moments

Ok so guess what? We found a PLACE! A place to call home. It's a one bedroom flat which is very cute and is on a street called... :

Lange Beestenmarkt

Which, for your interest, actually means the long animal market. Wow, I wish we had excellent street names like that back in Australia. Apparently, way back when, our street used to be.. well.. a long animal market.

Anyway, I feel like so much has happened since I last wrote on this blog. Let's summarise:

1. It snowed (like 1mm but still so exciting! See pic)

2. We got a place (but you already knew that)

3. I have 2 job interviews coming up (hooray!)

4. We went to Ikea twice... (yes this is blogworthy)

Oh my gosh. Ikea. Cheap and wonderful. Until you buy 100 items that cost 1 euro each! Argh! It all adds up... No but seriously, twice, we got stuck, lost, in the consumery sweetness of Ikea. And our house is pretty much now like one of their showrooms. No no.. well.. almost. I've attached a picture of Nick sitting in the self-service section with our full trolley pondering what chair to buy. Shortly after the picture was taken we decided on two wooden chairs and two plastic chairs, which I proceeded to spill an entire cup of 80c coffee all over.

5. We attended an art exhibit by a local Baha'i artist who aims to use the concept of space as art.

So we rocked up to this random building in a quiet suburb that is actually being reconstructed and walked through all the construction to this corner he had set up with bits and pieces from the site and neon blue glowsticks! It was really surreal. Especially when a whole bunch of dutch arty people came in and were talking in this foreign language... in the dark... in this construction site... late on a monday evening...

6. Also attended the confirmation hearing for the ICC's first case!

It was a bit of a buzz sitting watching the courtroom with our english translation headphones on... waiting for the pre-trial decision.

That seems like a good overview of the last week or so....