Wende and Ingmar at Diny's pancake festival, Partyboat and grandparents

Close harmony workshop performance at the Toonzaal Den Bosch

Lisette and her fellow workshop members had to perform one las time in De Toonzaal in De Bosch and it sounded great!

More jazz in Duke town and Swimming pool Oosterhout and best of all! Wende is cycling without extra wheels!!

Here are some more videos of jazz in juke town and one of them on the big square is a band directed by Benjamin Herman, the best alto sax player in the Netherlands. And today (sunday) we went to the great swimming pool in Oosterhout called De Warande. Only the weather was not very coopertive, the wind was quite cold and clouds blacked out the sun every once in a while.. But the kids had a great time and that ia what counts I guess. And if they have fun, we have fun as well.

The best part today was thet Wende is now cycling without the extra wheels! It took some time but we only had to let go and off she went, not stopping for anything!!

Lisette's performance at the jazz in Den Bosch Festival

Lisette had to perform with her singing workshop fellow singers at the jazz in Debosch Festival today. We were lucky because of the weather, just before they had to start, a rain cloud emptied its contents en then it stayed dry.. The performance worked out well, although they only had the chance to practise 8 times.
After that we went to see Benjamin Herman play with a new band and that sounded really cool! Nils and Ingmar had ice creams but Wende didn't like ice cream so we went for spanish churros. At first Wende was a bit reluctant but once tried there was nothing left for dad but crums..

Long weekend! Jazz in Breda, beach, swimming pool

We had a nice long weekend so we went on a morning trip to the zoo and went to the local beach in the afternoon. It was very warm that day.. The water didn't even feel cold it was nice and cooling. Saturday we went to Breda where we met with my dad who came by bus from Hulst.

In Breda the yearly jazz festival took place and lots of music everywhere. We tried to find the chinees restaurant where used to eat when we came driving back from summerholidays when were kids but unfortunately, the restaurant wasn't there anymore.. Explaines why I got the busy tone when I tried to reserve seats the day before.. Anyway, we did find a great place to eat and enjoy some of the music played. Thanks dad, it was great! Sunday we went to the swimming pool as the weather was a bit less.. Started with some rain but that was refreshing in a way. It hadn't rained in a long time and the lawn is desperate in need of water.This time we all went to the pool and enjoyed every minute of it.