Sunday was another gorgeous day and I wanted to do something adventurous, something that the Ash cloud couldn't cancel for me - so thought it would be a good idea to book my second attempt to do the "Balloon over Bruges" hot air balloon ride as there were no clouds in the sky and I thought it would be beautiful to watch the sunset over the Sea right on top of Bruges. On their website it even said - "the ash cloud won't ground our flights!" I went for a quick run and did a couple errands before calling them to confirm if the flight was going to go out that night. Guess what - they said I was the only person booked on the evening flight because a group of Italians that were booked had to cancel because they could not make it to Bruges due to the ash cloud. At this point I was so annoyed with the ash cloud I went out and hung around Gent and found a delicious Thai restaurant not too far from my place. So many amazing things planned this weekend completely shot down because of the volcano.
I also had to move apartments for the week because they are re-doing the roof on my building, and I am on the top floor so they needed me to move down a floor into the empty unit for a week. I completely procrastinated on this and ended up finishing Monday morning before I left to work and I only brought down the essentials, assuming I could get anything else I needed in to evenings. The workers start pounding on the building by 7 AM every morning and they all smoke so walking down the stairs to leave everyday was very unpleasant - especially when it is raining the side of my building outside of my front door because they were sanding / refinishing the front of the building. But, luckily it was only a week and was only a minor inconvenience.
Caption: Picture of my building during the works
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