Holland - Russia

On Saturday, the Dutch soccer team will play against Russia in the quarter finals of the European Championships. The country will be devided; the coach of the Russian team is Guus Hiddink, one of the Netherlands' best coaches ever. He is the one who took the Koreans to the semi finals of the world championships a few years back. The Russians have been playing extremely well so far and apparantly their game is very similar to the Dutch way of playing. It makes for a very interesting game on Saturday and not much else will be going that night in this country :-)

We had another little set-back with the house. The floor guy said the concrete floor and walls of the living room are still too wet to put the maple floor in and it will take at least two weeks to fully dry out. By then, he'll be on holiday which means the new date for the floor to be put in is July 29 ... As the rest of the house should be done by mid July, we should be able to move our things to the second and third floor around that time. We'll probably store the living room and kitchen itmes in the garage until the floor is done and we can move them into the house. We planned to take a short trip to Austris early August, but I guess we'll be moving into our house instead. Trying to look at the bright side; the garden will most likely be done as well by the time we can move ...

I couldn't find any recent pics of the house. Time to go back in and take a few more, I guess :-)