Koninginnedag

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Phew, that was one rough, yet fun, week(end). It was Koninginnedag (Queens-day) here in the Netherlands last Saturday, which is always accompanied with a lot of partying. The night before, known as Queens-day eve, is also a country-wide reason for lots of festivities. The two days before that I also had some parties that needed attending and, you know, who am I to turn down an invitation to a party?

So from Wednesday through Sunday, I’ve been doing nothing but broadening my alcoholic horizons:

• Wednesday: Hard-rock party in my hometown, put together by my ex-girlfriend and some friends. Lots of beer.
• Thursday: To the pub with Zetion. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, what with work intervening and all, so we just had to get a couple of beers together. Also shot some pool, but I couldn’t get in the game at all (which pissed me off somewhat) so we decided to just go to another pub and have a couple more beers.
• Friday: Queens-day eve, Yet More Beer. Went to The Stairway in Utrecht with some friends. Music sucked, crowd sucked, still had fun.
• Saturday: A day of ‘rotting’ (relaxing and recovering from a night of beer-drinking) with Wouter and Martin over at Wouter’s place. Not very surprisingly, we opened up another couple of beers. Had those damn-fine spareribs delivered again. Yummy.
• Sunday: Another day of rotting to recover from the previous day of rotting, and guess what? Beer was once again involved, though only during the day.

After all this limitless consumption of alcohol, I was going for a quiet peaceful twelve hours of sleep from Sunday to Monday, in the hopes of regaining my composure by the time I had to get back to work again. Unfortunately, I went to bed much too late and got woken up at 2:30 in the morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. Still, I don’t feel tired or worn down which, frankly, surprises me somewhat. I guess having such a good time somewhat compensates for the lack of sleep and soberness.

It’s been a long time since I had such a partying extravaganza, and I can tell you it felt great, though it’s probably better to stay away from alcoholic beverages for the next couple of days.

Update: My friendly colleague Christiaan just remembered me of next Thursday: liberation day. I feel another beer weekend coming up.