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Meet Apollo, our Greyhound rescue ♡ ♡ ♡

This is Apollo, our 3 year old greyhound!

At first glance, or from a distance, or actually up close, it looks like he’s had a field day in a dusty setting. His fur is quite magnificent in that he has spots, patches, stripes and a rainbow of colours on his long noodle yet muscular body.

If you look even closer, you will notice that our little angel has quite a few scars too. Being a rescue dog, we don’t know his past or what he went through, and we may never really know. That anxiety of the unknown comes with the package of adopting an ‘older’ rescue dog. In no time, we learnt that he was super afraid of other dogs, not good around people smoking, and a small thing like picking up a fallen branch off the ground makes him cower away as if you’re about to hurt him.

Its painful to think of what he has gone through before knowing us. They say that adopting a dog with a past is difficult and they are not wrong. It takes months for a dog to become comfortable in a new home. You have to be patient and understanding, which isn’t always easy, but we managed. Good things take time right? It’s worth it.

We have only had this gorgeous rainbow, speckled egg for eight months, but in that time, we have seen this abused, scared, timid survivor become a playful, silly, friendly, loving dog. He was so patient with us and still can be when we are fussing over his collar or putting the wrong leg through the harness. He is patient with children no matter how playful and loud and all over him children can be, and patient yet slightly stressed when we give him a bath or brush his teeth.

He is also SUPER WHINY AND LOUD AT SIX IN THE MORNING ON A SUNDAY when he’s ready and excited for his morning walks, and his tail wags hard when he’s happy. He loves treats so much that you don’t have to tell him what do, he will do all of his tricks to earn his treat without us needing to say a word.

He loves his little goat plush toy and even has a happy dance. He loves to lay in the sun and is also totally fine leaving us to go be alone upstairs when he’s bored with us. His yawns make us laugh and even when he’s whining, its just so cute. When he runs, he looks like a galloping horse and it’s magnificent to witness. He’s what made us a little family. I mean, just look at him! ♡

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Apollo has been such a blessing in our lives. Sometimes I look at him and hope that he’s happy with us. All we can really do is hope, love and try. As much as adopting a puppy or having a tiny dog or whatever it was I thought I wanted, our tall, horse/noodle like dog is really just so special and so deserving of love.

And boy do we love you, my little weirdo.

♡ ♡ ♡

-Dee

69 | A P O L L O Meet Apollo, our Greyhound rescue ♡ ♡ ♡

Part 2: ART!

As I have already said, walking through Amsterdam was like witnessing artwork in so many forms. Whether it was the never ending rows upon rows of beautiful buildings, to the bridges adorned with beautiful colourful flowers and bikes just parked along them. Everywhere we looked, it was a picture perfect moment.

Even the rows of bicycles lined up were such a beautiful and refreshing sight to see. We also got to see a Boatel (someday, I will live in you boat hotel….someday) and comically tiny cars fit for a person of my height, which is surprising given how tall everyone was in the Netherlands.

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I loved seeing people ride their bikes along the roads, men in suits, children so young riding with their parents. Some parents even had bikes with side cars! I especially enjoyed seeing all the lovely ladies on their bikes in their dresses and heels, that’s right! High stiletto heels…while riding a bike. I was so impressed.

The street art was such a pleasure to see as well, the graffiti was brilliant and always fun to spot, the sculptures brilliant to see, and the thrill of just seeing things that make you laugh. Like the pharmacy with the periodic table as their window showcase or that one photograph from that one restaurant that was just so bad-ass. You’ll know which one. *wink

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Let’s not forget the actual art museums! We were able to see the Rijks Museum, the Van Gogh museum (omg) and the Banksy art exhibition (omg) at the Moco Museum!

I didn’t take a lot of photos but one place I held sacredly was the Van Gogh museum where I did not take any photos at all. It was such a special art filled day and a lot of emotions came up while appreciating the works of so many great artists. Here’s a look at some of them.

I loved everything about Amsterdam, I can’t wait to go back.

-Dee

*Museum posts coming soon!

T H I S I S A M S T E R D A M ! Part 2: ART!

Part 1: Our anniversary

Okay so its been quite some time since I’ve blogged, but one cannot simply travel to the city of Amsterdam and not take a second to brag about it!

What was absolutely lovely about our trip, or rather , the two loveliest things, were that we were going on this trip to celebrate our FIRST wedding anniversary! I know right? Time really does fly. The second reason was that we got to see some of our family that have been living in Amsterdam for a couple of years now. We hadn’t seen them since our wedding and it was such a treat to spend some quality time with everyone again.

We flew up to Amsterdam mid-July, escaping the brittle cold of South Africa for warm sunny days. But alas, as our luck had it, we were in Amsterdam for the one week of cold, rainy weather that they had that entire summer. Yeah… thanks universe. I packed all my summer dresses, having planned and imagined all the Instagram-able photos I’d be taking and ended up exploring the city in sweat pants.

Our days were filled with lots of walking and independent travel, a lot of time spent at Dam Square and a lot of wine and gin. It was quite a wonderful trip indeed. But lets move on to what you actually want to hear about, something about the colour red yes?

Well I’ll have you know that Hubs and I officially have a very cool first anniversary story to tell at dinner parties. We had an entire day of activity planned, but the night before, we spent the evening being introduced to the famous Red Light District. It was all that we had heard about the area, the girls looked like individual barbies in their cases, alive and beckoning. There were many onlookers, howling, whistling and cat calling. All the sounds, really. There were also some of the obvious people who just gawked stupidly and then laughed like they were too good for the girls. Sure buddy, you think that.

We walked through the entire district, with our cousins as our guides and our eyes opened to so much we didn’t know. We also found out that you should absolutely NEVER take photos of the ladies of the district as they might very well come at you and throw your phone into the river. Understandably enough in my opinion. We also learned that the Red Light District is home to the best churros ever!

The best part of that night for me was realizing that it was midnight, officially our one year wedding anniversary, while walking hand in hand with my husband surrounded by half naked girls and a cloud of marijuana floating above us. We celebrated this by sharing a joint with the people we loved in a random corner of the Red Light District. Super romantic right? We definitely think so!

Our first anniversary joint, courtesy of The Bulldog.

the rest of our anniversary looked like this:

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We spent our day together, taking in the views, eventually sitting on a giant swing on top of a twenty story building. You know, so we could really soak in that view. I wasn’t afraid at all! *rolls eyes.

We also spent our evening at a gorgeous Japanese teppenyaki restaurant called Sazanka and it was the best dinner we have ever had, hands down. We also had a LOT of wine and maybe that made it that much more fun.

Amsterdam you have my heart, more posts to come! (also just look at those grey clouds. Summer my a**)

-Dee

A M S T E R D A M ! Part 1: Our anniversary

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