Vacation is over

I welcome Ad and Hanneke home from their vacation and move to Hotel West Side Inn.
Yesterday I had a planned to welcome Ad and Hanneke home with a three course meal. I spent time looking for the best ingredients in the specialty shops in the neighborhood and planning what to cook. During the week I had already experimented and I decided to bake a new rye bread for the starter course and make chocolate mousse for dessert. I also intended to make a soup from different root crops, but I ended up abandoning that idea. They arrived at twenty past seven, and did not seem hungry so I decided the first course and dessert would do just fine.
It felt good to welcome them home. In a sense it was like no time had passed since they left. We even watched the rest of a movie we had paused on Netflix. At the same time, a lot had changed. This time I felt like I was showing off the apartment instead of the other way around. I feel like I lived up to the challenge of leaving the house a little nicer than it was when I came. Of course I cleaned everything, but I also put some delicious foodstuffs in the kitchen, so it wouldn't feel like anything was missing.
Today I'll be moving to a hotel which will be my third and final home in Amsterdam. But first I will bake another rye bread; I don't think I'll get any other chances to do that :)