Movie: Rio

Blu
This weekend I saw the new animation movie Rio. Every time when I saw an announcement for this movie I knew I had to see this movie with the cute fuzzy animals.

Because of the nice weather we where only with six people at the movies. From the start I knew I liked it as much as I suspected. Even though it’s a children’s movie it sure is fun. Simple stuff like a text on the screen that says ‘Rio’ to tell us what we’re seeing, and a moment later you see a very different landscape with the text: ‘Not Rio’. You just have to smile when you see this movie.

The story is about the blue bird Blu who is the last male blue bird. A man in Rio wants to bring Blu together with the last female blue bird in Rio. But Blu is used to not living in Rio, so he’s not looking forward to this trip.

The movie shows colorful animals, friendly people, unfriendly people, carnaval, tropical rainforest, citylife, beach, sun and snow. And the adventures of Blu…

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Botanic Gardens

Today I visited the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens. I was surprised by the amount of plants and flowers and the beautiful landscape.
I never thought we would have a waterfall in the city! Okay, it’s about two meters high, but still… ;)

Botanic Gardens Botanic Gardens
Botanic Gardens Here it is: the waterfall!
Botanic Gardens Botanic Gardens with the university in the background Botanic Gardens: bamboo
Botanic Gardens: weird plant Botanic Gardens: nice pink plant

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Sunday morning running

MaliebaanThis morning I ran again. The weather was perfect. I went for an early run, so it wasn’t too warm. As I didn’t know how the running would go, I chose a route through the city center, so I could run home any time.

But the running went great! I am back at my old running level: running for 60 minutes, without feeling totally exhausted when I am back home after the run. I am very happy that my knee healed and that I am able to run again!

In two weeks I will join the Marathon Utrecht. I will run only 5K, but it’s a start and I know I can run this distance easily. In June I will join a running event and run the 10K, and in September I hope I can run the 16K (10 miles) in Amsterdam.

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Cat at the vet again

In the waitingroom @ the vet Yesterday I went with my sister’s cat to the vet again for his monthly check-up. His heart murmur was much less, so that’s good and his weight was higher, which is in Mauwerd’s case good too.

The vet took some blood of the cat to see if the medicin Mauwerd gets twice a day works. Today I got a call with the results: the thyroid level dropped from 170 to 106 last time, and now the level is only 10! So that’s perfect.

That means that we don’t have to continue with the monthly check-up thing, only with the medicin twice a day.

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Pictures holiday

Boat @ Ohrid Lake

I finally put all the pictures of my holiday online. If you go to this site, you will find the pictures of Prague, Kavadarci, Ohrid and Skopje in the 2011 part of the site.

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