Visiting Jack, Emma, Arthur and Lisa and Euro Disney

It has been 2 weeks since we updated the weblog but the last weeks has been so busy and we went away for a week. The week before we went to check out a car for Lisette as she is going to change jobs and the new position doesn't have a company car included. Lisette made a test drive at a hyundai dealer somewhere near Amersfoort and afterwards we found that looking at cars made us hungry and we went for the first lunch opportunity we found. Turned out to be a pancake house!! Behind it was a big forest so to ease our stomachs we went for a stroll through the woods. And then we went for a long drive in the direction of France, Nils and Wende did not know what the destination was and Nils didn't find out until we were waiting for the shuttle bus service outside the hotel we just checked in.. Dad was standing underneath the sign of the bus's destination and Nils finally tried to read it aloud:"D-I-S-N-E-Y-L... heeeeyy, Disneyland Paris!!". What followed was 3 days of getting up early and spending the most of the day at Disney land, waiting in cues and enjoying rides and the good weather. The kids loved it and after our stay there we drove to Arthur and Lisa to stay with them for 2 days. It has been a while since we've seen them and Jack and Emma. We had a great time, it is a pitty that we cannot see them more often.. Maybe with Christmas.. We'll see. Nils helped out rthur in the garden while Jack and Emma were at school. Jack and Emma have the autumm holiday a week later. So friday morning we packed up everything and we set out to drive home but first we had to drive to Horst in the netherlands to have a look at a small car Lisette found on the internet. There Ingmar Nils and Wende were jumoing on a trampoline of the car's owner while Lisette was driving around in the car to be. Ingamr jumped off following his brother and sister but it was too high and he hurt his foot. The following morning dad took him to hospital were we spent 3 hours with no result.. The cannot find anything wrong but he still doesn't want to use that foot.. We have to wait and see what happens the following days..

What a weather!

What a weather, sun, no clouds, only a fresh breeze of wind, it was great to have this weather so late in the year. Friday dad picked up the kids from daycare and while Ingmar slept, Nils and Wende played in the garden and inside with their toys. Dad cleaned his car because he is going to try and sell it. We can now drive granddad's car and that is a much better reliable one then dad owns.. The Alfa is not bad.. it's just that.. it's italian and there's not much room in it for stuff and kids.. Saturday Nils had to play a home game against another team of Drunen and he scored 3 goals! (Click here to see the videos) At the end the score was 18-19 so they almost won!! Couldn't belive my ears when they told me the end result.. After the game we picked up more wood for the pole shed and dad did some work on it before we decided the weather was too good and we took off to swim at our local beach. We did the same on sunday, went to the beach here but we took the canou along. We sailed to the other side of the river where we had lunch. After a couple of hours we went back to our local beach where there were many friends of Nils and Wende with their parents. In the end all the kids climbed into the canou having a great time.