Hello from the Hague

I wanted to impress you with a few fabulous pictures of my apartment, some of you may pick up a few decorating tips. Of course one of which is: use avacado green as sparingly as possible. I am sad the Olympics are over, I have enjoyed watching the Olympics, of course it is much different watching BBC (British Broadcasting Company) I have never seen so much rowing and badminton in my life! Did you even know badminton (or even hand ball)was a sport? But this is after the great Dutch Cable saga was over...I have yet to quite understand how anyone stays in business over here. So I am sure you are hoping to hear about the great Dutch Cable saga....I will begin at the beginning. After waiting for 6 weeks my cable was FINALLY turned on-but what no one tells you (or maybe they did tell me but I was too fascinated with on of my SIX adult channels)is that even though you have already ordered your cable and you are already paying for your cable you have to send in a postcard telling them what cable you want! If you do not turn in said postcard they turn off your cable (SIX adult channels and all). So I call the cable company and after waiting 30 minutes I finally talk to a real person, said real person says I am not in the system. I asked myself, how can one not be in the system but ones bank account can be in the system??? We finally straightened that small problem out and after much gnashing of teeth and unplugging and replugging I have traded my SIX adult channels in for ONE NASN (North American Sports Network!). I was able to watch Lee Corso and the rest of ESPN's game day crew the other day (it sure beat the first round of Latvia VS. Guatemala in badminton).
I am off to Paris for the weekend and I am trying to decide where to go for Columbus Day-I can't decide between Portugual or Italy. I am planning on Malta for Christmas.

Hope all is well in Stillwater.....