Guus Bosman

Tomorrow morning I'm traveling back to Raleigh.

Yesterday it was very cold here, today is more bearable. I went to pick up some yogurt from a grocery store, and took a picture of this decorated house.

I worked in our headquarters in New Jersey today. When I'm here my calendar is always packed with meetings; today I was in the office from 8.30 am to 7.00 pm. I'm staying until Wednesday morning.

I'm staying in the Holiday Inn, and they've made some nice changes. I received a bottle of water and a power bar when I checked in (smart choices -- they must realize nowadays that most business traveler's don't care for unhealthy cookies so much), but most of all there's coffee in the lobby now. That saves me a trip to the Starbucks down the road. I don't drink much Starbucks during the week anymore, but when I'm on the road I allow myself some luxury.

Tomorrow morning I'm taking the 6.55 am flight to Newark, NJ. I need to be in New Jersey Monday morning early, and the early flight on Sunday is a lot cheaper than other flights, later in the day.

I'll meet up with colleagues in the evening, but I have the entire day for myself, so I hope to go back to the Metropolitan, and in the afternoon visit the Frick Collection.

Yesterday when we were in the National Gallery of Art, I was wondering where the "View of Haarlem" was that I saw there two years ago.

It turns out that there is a very exiting exhibition now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, "Pride of place: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age". The best news is that the exhibition will be on display in the National Gallery from February 2009. The Jan Lieven exhibition by the way, will move on to the Milwaukee Art Museum, and later in 2009 to the Netherlands.

I'm really looking forward to see the Dutch Cityscapes exhibition. It will even include the famous "View of Delft" by Vermeer, that Sasha and I saw when we visited the Mauritshuis in The Hague four years ago.