2 days remaining :)

Asnida has a long travel ahead, of roughly 28 hours. She'll have to take 3 flights of which the first two are operated by KLM. First from Kuala Lumpur to Schiphol, then from Schiphol to Lisbon. The third and final flight from Lisbon to Funchal is operated by TAP.
Her ETA is 8:30pm so we'll see how tired she will be. At least she has a lot of lay over time between the flights so I would be surprised if she runs into any delays.

3 days left :)

4 days... getting close now :)

5 days :)

6 days remaining!

7 days left until Asnida gets here :)

FINALLY!!!

I finally picked up my car today!
Now I'll need a lot of practice to park in the building's basement garage since it's rather small with narrow turns :)

Hopefully I'll be able to maneuver out of the garage tomorrow and go for a decent ride to get comfortable with the car. I can also finally get groceries without having to walk up and down the hill :)

8 days and almost weekend ;)

9 days to go and still no car....

10 days left now :)

car update

Things are getting close to me having the car finally!
I signed the lease contract last week and today the license plate number was finally transferred so we could arrange the car insurance.
Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the car tomorrow or Thursday, fingers crossed....

11 days :)

12 days to go and Spring has officially started :-)

For Hindu's the colorful Holi Festival celebrates the beginning of the Spring season:
"Play of Colors
Great excitement can be seen in people on the next day when it is actually the time for the play of colours. Shops and offices remain closed for the day and people get all the time to get crazy and whacky. Bright colours of gulal and abeer fill the air and people take turns in pouring colour water over each other. Children take special delight in spraying colours on one another with their pichkaris and throwing water balloons and passers by. Women and senior citizen form groups called tolis and move in colonies - applying colours and exchanging greetings. Songs, dance on the rhythm of dholak and mouthwatering Holi delicacies are the other highlights of the day." (from http://www.holifestival.org/holi-festival.html)

13 days and the sun seems to be here to stay :)

14 days to go now.

The weather is getting better again here, pretty sunny, around 20 Celsius, chilling out on my balcony with a nice cup of hot chocolate :)

15 days tralala!

16 days now... tick tock :)

Asnida's clothes arrived at my office today so she'll be able to dress nice and warm for the relative cold here. Right now it's about 20 Celsius which is 14 degrees lower than Kuala Lumpur today.
But at least it's not raining here... for the moment!

17 days remaining :)

18 days :)

Apparently yesterday was the coldest day in Funchal in 40 years time! The temperature went down all the way.... to 9 degrees Celsius!

19 days :)

20 days left before Asnida gets here :)

counting down...

Three weeks left, 21 days to go! :-D