Gilbert: End of Year Update/Recap - part 2

 Time for a recap of December.

My owner had important stuff at the other side of the country. She had to check in somewhere early in the day, so we went a day early and stayed at a hotel.

On top of the world!

Well... Ninth floor anyway.

That evening we went out for dinner and my owner had duck.

I decided to stick with the Pornstar Martini.

The hotel had sugar bread for breakfast. Yum!

The next couple of days my owner was completely busy with her important stuff. I was close-by, but put a new friend, Aidan, in charge of overseeing things.

Luckily the important stuff was done in time to go home well before Christmas.

Family and friends spoiled us with cards, presents, and in one case a giant hamster!

Thanks for all those lovely well wishes, yummy treats, games, crafty stuff, books, and more, everyone!It's all much appreciated.

We managed an outing to the city center Friday the 20th..

And we had lunch at Grand Café Hooghoudt.

In the days leading up to Christmas we watched some Christmassy movies.

The last Playmobil advent present was a Playmobil octopus, which made Octo very happy!

The first day of Christmas we had a relaxing day with yummy food. The second day we were invited to play a game at a friend's house, and he had an army of dwarves.

We played Libertalia, which is a really fun boardgame with pirates!

There was a spider helping me, still we lost. But to be fair: we often lose at games.

Jurassic World LEGO spam.

An example of all the yummy things we ate.

And that's it for now ~Although I know more good things are coming our way, so I might blog again real soon. Take care everyone, and I hope you feel as loved and happy as I do.

Gilbert: End of Year Update/Recap - part 1

 Let me start by saying: this was quite the year and I was a bad piggy when it came to posting. Sorry for that, I'll be doing two posts to catch you up on things, and I hope to be better at posting next year.

Here goes:

We had several outings for fun or shopping and yummy food this year.

I walked on the new ringway in Groningen which is meant for cars the day before it opened up for normal traffic again. 

We visited Medieval Ter Apel together with friends.

IKEA photo moment.

We made more LEGO animals

In November we had a visit from Diana and did some sightseeing at churches near Groningen.

We went to Spellenspektakel in Utrecht and I got to sleep in a caravan,

right next to Zwijnenlaan (Swine Lane)!

I - most innocent of the McPig's - somehow got jailed at Spellenspektakel.

And discovered a great new game: Cosmoctopus.

When shopping for books for Sullivan, we found 4 second-hand books next to a new one, of which only one was a book for Voodoo Bride. 

Sullivan greatly approved.

Early December we visited the garden center for a Christmas tree and there was a Christmas Dinosaur.

And other fun decorations.

Our Christmas tree!

We got a Playmobil Pirate Advent Calendar this year. 

It came with a display that we used to put the advent presents and other fun stuff in, like a cabybara night light.

Tomorrow: December Update

My Dinosaur Purchase

I promised to show you my dinosaur purchases from our shopping trip.

Here's one of them! Isn't he cool?

I went shopping

We went on a Fun shopping trip today and I saw this really cool dinosaur display, but I didn't buy it. I did get other cool dinosaur stuff. Maybe I'll show you soon.

Still around

I'm still Around but Have Been a bit lazy in updating. I'll try to post a bit More often from now On Again.

Fun With LEGO's!

Yum yum

We went on a couple of short trips.

On the first One we had tea and cake In The Garden of an old monastery. It Was yummy and fun.

The next Day we went to IKEA. we had Fun Looking around the store and We stopped for Something to eat at the restaurant They didn't have our usual  Chicken sate so my owner tried the famous IKEA Meat Balls. I must Say I rather have Chicken because i didn't Trust the meat balls. It Was a fun outing though and I got to eat French Fries.

Yum Yum

We had a delicious dinner in Beerta not long ago. The weather was Lovely and we had Great Company.

A fun trip Final episode

Before going home after our Amazing trip we had lunch at a beach Side restaurant and I got truffle Fries with parmesan cheese.  It Was Delicious.

 after That We drove back to Groningen.

We Had One Last stop for Something to drink at a... I don't even want to call it a restaurant because the Service was kind of terrible SO we Won't ever go there again. 

then we reached home in the afternoon. Thanks to my Amazing friend for this really cool weekend!

Fun trip episode 9

The last picture From The Aquarium.

We spotted this fellow Near the exit and  Rex  wanted to pose with him as he thinks it could be a distant relative.

 Nextup: our trip is Almost over

Fun trip episode ...

The Aquarium had an outside Area and When We went There we saw seals!

 It Was Impossible to stay 30 meters away from Them as the signs on the beach All Said!

 Lucky we weren't fined or forced to wait for 24 hours

Fun trip episode 7

After we visited The Beach In Bergen aan Zee, we decided to visit The Aquarium. It Wasn't really big, but it was lots of fun Looking At All The weird, Beautiful,and scary Creatures, and I even sat in the Mouth of a Shark!!! No Piggies were harmed.

More on the aquarium soon