Rápido's farewell diner

Since our hearing screener project in Belgium has come to an end, we celebrated this with a thank-you-and-goodbye diner for Don Rápido.

Thnx bro!

High Times We Went

One year anniversary!

Today we celibrate exactly one year of blogging!

And the fact that Michelle is now a master of science ;-)

Baeten 2

René van 't Hof

While waiting at SFO (San Francisco airport) I stumbled upon the famous Dutch actor René van 't Hof (from quality drama flicks Donna Dnna, Flodder and the popular serie Jiskefet).

Altana & friends

Saturday night, my last night in San Francisco before leaving for the Netherlands again.

I hooked up with Altana and her friends. It was incredibly nice to hang out with them, a big THANX! Altana for showing me around!!!

San Francisco - Vertigo

After I finished the training one day ahead of schedule, I relocated to downtown San Francisco for some shopping and sightseeing. I visited several locations where scenes from one of my favorite movies, Vertigo, were filmed.

This is Fort Point, near the Golden Gate Bridge, the location where Madeleine (Kim Novak) throws herself into the bay while entranced by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes:

And here it is as Hitchcock framed it:

Training Day

Today was the first training day at Natus. Instructors were Cindy and Frank, respectively from China and the Fillipines.
By the way, the Don was in serious violation of FDA regulation; apparently it is forbidden to wear flipflops/open shoes on the factory floor.

San Carlos

After the trip to Göteborg Don DeVallado immediately took a flight to San Fransisco. The next few days will be spent at the Natus headquarters in San Carlos. Business as usual ;-)

Göteborg

Spent a long weekend with Michelle in Göteborg. Nice & warm!
And Göteborg was amazing too ;-)

Eighty eight pics

Wokki managed to breath life into his server again, so the pictures he and Rene took became available.

Thanx guys for only taking pictures of "that hot chick on vocals"! ;-)

Eighty Eight

This Friday on the 8th of June, Don DeVallado will play with Eighty-Eight in café Van Putten (Stationsplein Eindhoven).

He will fill in for guitarplayer Frank, who is currently on honeymoon (read about Franks famous embarrassing moment involving a candle on the EightyEight website).

Efteling

With Michelle to the Efteling!
Hmmmmmmm...

After the technical malfunctions of the Pirana (no water) and the Python (killer bees) were solved, we enjoyed the rest of the sunny day since there were not many other people there.
Well, except from some mentally retarded people but they didn't mind being shuffed aside while they were waiting and drewling in line.