That time by the seaside

A few weeks ago Anais and I went on a tiny vacation to Nieuwpoort. September is kinda the last time you'll have any chance to get good weather so we jumped at the chance to go for a long weekend. We had a very chill weekend, walking by the sea, shopping, lots of reading and just general chilling. All topped off with a great dinner at restaurant Den Artiest in Oostende. The retro vibes that restaurant has is amazing. But looks isn't everything, the food was even better. Every piece of meat was prepared on an open grill. You can actually see them preparing it at the firepit. Amazing.

Lunchdate with the best girlfriend

Hi lovelies,

Last sunday me and Anais went out for lunch to celebrate our 'we're-together-this-amount-of-time-this-week-let's-celebrate'. We went to the Infirmerie, which is a lovely place in our town but isn't to extravagant and superexpensive. We had a lovely day. We took our time getting ready, got into town later that morning. We walked around the antique market and went for lunch after that. #actfancy.

We started our lunch of with a rose wine for Anais and coctail Infirmerie for me. I had no idea what was in it but it was delicious and non-alcoholic.

For appetisers we got these sweet patato mouses topped of with bits of smoked duck. Not exactly my cup of tea but you have to try something new once and awhile.

oeh time for starters. Anais went for bruschetta and I had the most delicious chicken salad.

For the main dish I went for a beef stew with a beersauce and fries, Anais got the salmon spinach pasta. We weren't able to finish it all but it was sooooo good.

Dessert was just not an option after this meal.

The rest of the day was filled with familyvisits inclusively our recently moved-out sister(-in-law for me). We had such a lovely time.

Do come back for the follow up posts on my outfit, make-up and nails.

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

You only turn 21 once

Hi lovelies, 

For my 21st birthday I went out to dinner with my family and girlfriend. We went to Caliu - Paella y Tapas, which as the name suggest is a tapas and paellaplace. It had only been open for 10 days so we were happy to try this new restaurant. 

My dad and girlfriend had the Paella menu which consisted of an appetiser of toasted bread covered in tomatoes and olive oil, a second appetiser of dried tuna with marcona almonds. As the main dish they got a seafood paella.

My mother and brother got the tapas menu that was sooo elaborate. They had so much little dishes. To sum up : olives, light grilled sardines, the same tomatobread thingies, chicken/ham croquettes, potatoes with garlicmayonais, a salad with goatcheese, tuna and courgette tortilla and a platter of Spanish salami and other meat delicacies.

I ordered a la carte and went for dried, slightly smoked ox meat and ordered the same chicken croquettes. To be honest I also tried from everyones plate and ate almost all those jummie potatoes. It's my birthday and I can eat whatever I want to ;)

Afterwarts we went to a nearby cafe for a sneaky little drink and went home. Little victory to remember : The girlfriend slept over at my house for the first time (that my parent know of at least, so sneaky). Slight drunk parents, yeah that worked out in my favor. Back to sleeping over at her place for the rest of the weekends?

Lightly roasted sardines

Tomatobread and dried tuna

My ox meat which was delicious

Jummie chicken croquettes

Goatcheese salad, tuna-courgette tortilla and leftover potatoes. It's really hard to take pictures while your eating yourself... I ended up with pictures from plates that were almost empty because everyone was eating before I could grab the camera. #bloggerissues

Paella

Fatherly photobomb

Same headtilt, glasses, same stare into the camera.. Is it obvious we have been dating for a while and morphed into the same person?

The food was really jummy and worth it's money but that being said it definitely wasn't the cheapest I've ever eaten. Luckily my parents treated but do think about that if you're thinking about going out for dinner at Caliu.

I had a lovely birthday this year, thanks pumpkin <3

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

40-month-anniversary lunch date

Hi lovelies, 

Yesterday I went on a date with Anais which was absolutely amazing. We went on a proper grown-up date for the first time. Mainly because we have been dating for 40 months this Friday but we are working that day so we celebrated the occasion this Sunday. We went for a fancy lunch at The Infirmerie, a local place in the town where we live.

We started our lunch with a rosé wine for Anais and a tonissteiner orange for me (had to work afterwards, couldn't drink). They were accompanied with olives, dark bread and minipretzel thingies

I wore the dress I got from Anais on my 18th birthday and braided my hair. I also kept my make-up neutral. 

Check out this little cutie, isn't she great for taking me on a lovely date even after being together for 3 years. 

This lovely appetiser was also brought to us, I don't know what it was but I liked it and I'm a difficult eater so that means a lot. Anais couldn't wait till the picture was taken before eating it so I'm left with this picture of my lonely appetiser. Btw she also stole my last olive, how dare she :p. 

 On the picture below you can see our main dishes. Anais went for penne with short stir-fried scampi's and I ate penne with oriental chickenstrips. They were delicious, I tried both and god they were soooo good. The portions were also very big which is always nice because who likes restaurants were you leave hungry.

I loved our little grown-up date and hope we'll do it again soon. Thankyou girlfriend for taking me along and treating me on this wonderful date.

Goodbyeeee

- Nikki

Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil' nasty

Hi lovelies, 

I promised this one... Let's talk about what I did the other day. It was a jampacked day and I loved every minute of it. I started by getting dressed for a lunch with my parents. You saw the result of that earlier. My parents celebrated the fact that they got married for the church 21 years ago. Considering that I also needed to eat I was invited. 

 We went to a restaurant in just outside the city 'altermezzo'. It's pretty fancy and I had never been there. 

I started off with an aperol spritz.

 I ate guinea fowl (well google that's the strangest translation for a fancy chicken i've ever seen) but it was delicious.

 This was my dad's dish but it looked so pretty I had to take a picture, My mom ate the same thing as myself.

 When at the badroom of a fancy place I always feel the need to take selfies, I don't know why.

Afterwards I went to my girlfriends place where we took outfit of the day pictures and hang around for a bit (wich actually means took a nap of more than an hour, shht)

Hanging around also stands for cuddling moustie.

You can hold the fatzo like a little baby. Excuse my butt nearly showing but the picture was to precious so let's ignore the lower half.

Afterwards Hanne came to pick us and Aida up and we drove to their soccer practice. I watched how they trained and tried to study a bit. 

After the warm-up Aida already felt like taking a nap

 After training they decided to go out, We went to the Ritz. At thursdays it's your cheapest option, they charge no entrancefees and only one euro for a beer because it's student night. I ended up wearing the same thing all day because I wasn't prepared for all of this but somehow it worked. Never too formal of too casual.

Well this was an extremely long post but it was a great day

Goodbyeee

- Nikki