Hey all and happy new year if I haven't seen you in 2016 yet. As usual we are running pretty late with our cards, I even considered stamping "Hope this gets there before the Chinese New Year" on the back of the envelopes..
Either way, we are doing well and have recovered from what must have been the busiest half year ever. If you ask me, I'd say we have been in Santa Monica for two years already; it seems like I left Breda ages ago. I do miss it sometimes and Delphine had a tearful moment when a Dutch "Kinderen voor Kinderen" song came by that she danced to with her class back in Holland. We found some pictures of our wonderful house there and that was bittersweet too.
I have been to Southern California many times but actually living here in the winter is still a little bit of a new experience. I had a panic the other day when I realized that I had not seen any of my jackets since June and I really did not know where they were.
I have since found my light rain jacket and I carried it with me to work a few times, but I have stopped doing that as I never need it. On the three days that we got massive amounts of rain, which we did, I took the bus or Lea drove me to work as she had an errand to run anyway. I thought I would miss the cold, but I am actually fine without it so far.
Please find some pictures below from a little walk around the block I did in my lunch break the other day. I take a walk many days, but that one day I felt inspired to take some pictures. Enjoy!
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| Third Street Promenade |
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| One of the pretty and older buildings |
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| A street musician on Third Street |
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| Fancy office building next to my work, the beach is just behind it |
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| Movie set sale: all kinds of clothes (didn't buy any, sorry) |
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| The "Johannes van Tilburg" building |
And this is not a video I made, but I have seen Chelsea Williams perform several times on Third Street, and this video gives you a good impression of the atmosphere.
