It was New Years eve and somehow I felt like it was difficult for me to remember what I experienced, when and how this year was amazing.
I would like to share with you some of the highlights, big changes and great moments that I had in 2013:)
In January my fiancé Richard and I visited our friends in Netherlands for first time and we celebrated the New Years Eve on the bridge of Rotterdam, had an amazing time partying, drinking, discovering Rotterdam and cycling in the crazy windy cold weather:)
In May I went for few days to Rotterdam again, this time to celebrate my mum's 65th birthday. We went for 4 days which was filled with sighseeing, seeing Keukenhof (an amazing exhibition of flowers - tulips mostly), visiting Amsterdam. The weather was gorgeous and you just have to see the exhibition. I just loved it. (More pictures from that trip in the
this blogpost.)
In June I went to work part-time as I wanted to see how it would work for me. More time, well I hoped there would be more of it, but somehow even more time can be spent and filled with a lot of things to do. I had more time to spend with my friends and family, but not having as much of a salary did really influence me. When you have more time, you have more things to spend your money on, so I needed a change again. In November I went back to full-time.
In the end of June we went for holidays to Canary Islands which was my first ever official holiday I paid for (finally a grown-up?). It was amazing, I love spending time with my fiancé. We went for a lot of walks, we swam a lot, sunbathed a little and most importantly on 24th of June we got engaged. We were sitting on a bench, looking on the sunset on the sea and it happened. We went to a restaurant by the sea and drank some champagne to celebrate. Perfect evening.
In August we had friends coming over for few days (Monika & Petko), which was very refreshing and nice. We did go to park, doing some shopping, market, chatting, getting drunk (well, oh mostly me as obviously I can't manage more than one glass of wine...) and just enjoying our company.
In October we went to Slovakia (I went for 3 weeks, Richard-my fiancé went for 1 I believe.). Normally I don't really miss Slovakia, but with this visit I really enjoyed it. We visited our family, friends, we personally invited people to our wedding. I had quite a bit of time for myself, great time helping my mum in garden (I didn't help that much, because even if it doesn't look like a lot of work, you need to be trained and it looks like my mum had more strength than I did), catching up on my favourite tv-shows. Oh, and we went to High Tatras and I got my wisdom tooth taken out.
Another great visit were our other friends (Mariannka & Dennis) who came just in the beginning of December. The atmosphere was all Christmassy and luckily we have still time (even when working full-time then) to spend together. We went to Oxford street, a lot of shopping in Westfield, they did some sighseeing, we went to Winter wonderland and went to have traditional English breakfast (when I have Eggs benedict for first time).
The last visit in the Year we had my future-in-laws. The stayed with us from 20 till 27th of December. It was perfect. We had great time together, they are funny people to be around. We laughed a lot, drank a lot (of course) and had an amazing Christmas. We watched a lot of traditional Slovak fairytales and we even went for Boxing day shopping:)
In Slovak language YOU can be used in two ways. In Formal way (you normally use this with authorities, people older than you) it is used as YOU (in plural). In Informal way used as singular (used with friends, people your age). Well, anyways, it is normally the authority or older person who can allow you to use singular which is a great deal. So, long story short, my future-in-laws allowed me to use singular "you" with them.
And that's about it. Year of 2013 was a nice one, but I am so excited what 2014 will bring:)
