Family affair

Good evening,

+20 degrees today, it is summer and it's the middle of April. SUN SUN SUN.
got to love it.
A part from enjoying the gorgeous weather, I've enjoyed of the company of my mum and my brother Aapo from last Sunday till yesterday(Thursday). I do enjoy being a host and showing the city. We walked mostly in the city centre, went to a Flea market arranged on the 2nd Easterday, me and Aapo visited the Stripmuseum(Comics) We did also have a walk in a really nice park, that's around a kilometre away from my place.
I realized that family can bring both your best and your worst parts of yourself. I mean, I wasn't being always fair to my brother, and sometimes I found myself nagging about minor things:/
The good thing with family is that they take you for who you are and they wont let you down, no matter what:)
Miraculously enough, we fitted well in my room, my mum in my bed, me in a spare mattress and Aapo in a inflatable one. It was a puzzle every night to put out the mattresses, but we managed it just fine. So for the future's sake, it's tested now: I can accomodate two people(even three) in my room!

Yesterday, we took the train to Amsterdam and when it was time to leave the luggage to the lockers, it didn't work out. For some strange reason, the lockers can only be paid for by chipknip, pin card , visa and master (don't ask me what the two first ones are, some brilliant Dutch inventions, they should go for Visa Electron instead!) Well, the locker where we put our things didn't accept my mum's visa, so we ended up dragging a huge suit case with us the whole day.
Well luckily we're no whimps, so we managed relatively well:)

Me and Aapo spent some hours in a Science Museum (NEMO), they had many different exhibitions and one of them was about teenagers...it was a brilliant one. You could create with a computer spots to a person, play with two tongues(by sticking your arm in) and pretend that they were kissing. All the fact sheets on the walls were also hilarious( different kissing styles and their names) The "roughest" part was peepshow area, were you had booths and children between 12 and 18 years could get coins and they could go in and watch some filmclips(have no idea what it was all about) My brother is soon reaching his teenager years, for him, the exhibition was slightly embarrasing. I played well my role as an embarrasing big sister, laughing and pointing all the time and trying out all the different stuff:)

Later, my mum wanted to go to Waterlooplein( A very famous market) me and Aapo soaked up the sun in a nice terrace. I must admit, that the guys that I saw in Amsterdam were seriously hot, trendy and good looking. Both tourists and locals, I wonder how I could get some of them to Groningen as well:)
After Waterlooplein mum and Aapo headed for the hotel(carrying around the suitcase got too much at that point) I enjoyed the urban atmosphere for a couple of more hours (and bought a new bikini ) before taking the train back to Groningen.
I went directly from the transtation to Axel's place. Axel had baked such a delicious cake(well to be honest, he never makes anything that wouldn't be delicious) and we were around ten people there, getting all of our share of the cake. yummy:)

This weekend is dedicated to studying. I have an exam on the 18th(Quality Management, part B) and 24th (International Business Law). Next week (after my exam on Wednesday)we do have a 70's party in Rumba, bought a really cool shirt from H&M discount rack (-50%)for that purpose.
It's sooo hideous, that it starts to be cool.

Lots of hugs and kisses,

Anna