How cheesy!!

and its not even a mural... but this is all i got right now. im a little lazy! saw it and ignored it, in boston's chinatown, but then tim said; hey, hey! and well... i took the picture... :)

tomorrow is valentine's day. signs of that are everywhere; the office at our apartment complex asked all residents to pick up their delivered packages as they kept coming in, taking up all the space. shops have entire aisles just for chocolate and other red/heart-shaped candy (they started that beginning of january, some even earlier). and even tonight, at the supermarket one of the employees went crazy over the intercom; "we have roses here, a dozen, they are so cheap, cheaper than anywhere else! we men are in the doghouse, so be her hero, bring her roses. buy some nice chocolate. now do it, really, and here is the place to do it. do your shopping, and get the roses too. and some candy. and since its cheap... you dont even have to spend a lot of money. dont you want to get out of that doghouse... " it went on, and on and on...  (a youtube video about the doghouse (had never heard it before); its rather funny, but a bit long....). 

in the netherlands, valentine's day is not that big (pfew), but here it seems really important...

for some real murals, go here!

Boston & Tim

so.... today a photo of tim & boston, after boston & me... :).  no pink for him... this is from quite a different location. not on the banks of the charles river, but in winthrop, but on the other side of the water you can see boston again. had to look it up, but winthrop is a town, and not part of boston. its tiny, yet densely populated, and cute, with many dead end streets, leading to the ocean. it was established in 1630, and that makes it one of the oldest towns in the us! named after john winthrop. you can read all about him here, as i am supposed to goto bed now....

it was cold today! -4 C during the day, and very, very windy. but soooo sunny, as you can see, so we had to go out and do some exploring....