Aaron and I have been on the road for 3 months now and haven’t been able to write our blog. I have written stories but haven’t been able to publish them. This is a good start.
One of my wise friends once said to me: “the way you celebrate new years eve is the way you’re going to spend the entire new year.” This was absolutely true, as we celebrated New Years Eve 2012/2013 in Melbourne with people who we truly care about with the joy of having great musicians playing at the Espy – we even got on stage with Spiderbait!
2013 brought us several dress-ups, bbq’s, spontaneous get-togethers & moustaches painted on our faces, drinking sessions whether it was Paddy’s day, Australia Day, Queens Day or Grand Final Day, we had mountains of laughter, camping weekends amongst the koalas & kangaroos, trivia nights, playing the YVZ game, playing Wii Darts laughing at one of our Irish friends who actually threw the remote towards the TV 🙂
I have spent precious time with my beautiful parents who came to Australia to meet our friends and Australian family, and took care of us when we were visiting the Netherlands, with mum as our Personal Assistant and dad as our chauffeur and my younger sister Annelies as entertainment manager, thanks again!
Starting with Spiderbait at New Years Eve, we have seen fantastic artists at Byron Blues Fest including Newton Faulkner, Zack Brown Band, Fat Freddies Drop, Soja, Robert Plant, Santana, Manu Chao, the Lumineers, we went to Soundwave and saw the Offspring, Paramore etc and during PinkPop we witnessed even more of our favourite musicians including Queens of the Stoneage, Passenger, the Killers, Kings of Leon and Green day!
Another highlight of year 2013 was working at Telstra/T2, I had the opportunity to work with some amazing people who all were very welcoming and accepting. I had the chance to change someones experience, working with progressive / innovative stakeholders, I was able to expand my horizon and teach complex processes to new team members. I learnt more than I ever could imagine.
I picked up my Dutch bike early 2013, discovered speculaas spread existed, bought my first Macbook Pro, signed up for my first blood donation, went to my first Dutch wedding ever and I discovered that koala’s at night sound like grizzly bears!!
Thanks for everyone who made my 2013 so wonderful.
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