A weekend sailing

This weekend we went to the boat and sailed to the Grevelingen, a salt water lake in Holland. First we sailed from Dintelmond to Brouwershaven and stayed overnight at the yachtharber in the city center and had dinner at a little bity disappointing chinese restaurant. The next mornuing we sailed to a couple of small islands near Bruinisse and had lunch there. After lunch we went for a swim, Nils and dad jumping overboard and ingmar and Wende swam with their lifejackets on. Mom joined as well for a quick dip in the pool.. After that we raised the sails again to sail to the brand new harber at Bruinisse. Never seen such a nice and neat harber with fascillities! Regarding fascillities.. the kids cleaned the deck every day and we saw something very unusual, a Phocoena phocoena passed us by! There is video below were you can actually see it (unfortunately only once..)
Next morning after we enjoyed the freshly baked croissants, we sailed to the locks, waited fore it to open, luckily these locks were quite big so we passed though with the next shift, leaving disappointed big ship owners waiting some more.. The next lock was only 1 hour sailing away (Krammersluizen) and there we passed through again and on we went, back to where we came from, Dintelmond. The kids loved it but going to sleep at night was not so easy and for us it was not as comfortable as at home..

Long weekend in May

This time we had a long weekend to share with the kids and so we did. Thursday we went to the Drunense duinen and we took our bicycles with us. We parked the car somewhere and we cycled to the dunes and had a picknic there in the sand. The kids made a sort of tree house (well at least the first floor that is..) and Ingmar played with sand. The wind was a bit cold but the sun made up for it. We all turned home slightly sunburned.. On the way back we passed a campsite with a big playground and lots of kids running around. We had ourselves an ice cream there and continued our journey back to the car. At home we spent the time up to dinner in the garden. The next day dad went to the boat to set the sails ready for ther coming weekend and Lisette did the shopping run with the kids and took Wende to swimming lessons. Saturday Nils had to play a hockey game in Tilburg which he won with his team with 28 to 18.. He scored 8 goals and played very well together with his team. The game videos can be found below. After hockey Nils had to do a chess exam and he thinks he did it well.. Let's wait and see.. While we were driving back, Lisette rang us to tell that she was at our local beach with Wende and Ingmar so we drove back home, picked up the bikes and dry clothes for Ingmar and Wende and joined Lisette at the beach. In the afternoon we went to Breda were we met up with my dad and my sister. The Breda jazz festival is always very nice to got to but with our kids so young, it is quite a challenge.. We had dinner at a nice restaurant called Charelli and walked back through town to the bus stop were we took the bus back to were we parked our cars. Today sunday, we went to the swimming pool Caribabad in Gorinchem were we had one hand stuck under a slide, one brused head because of slipping backwards and 4 chaves on knees and leg.. But most of all we had fun with the slides and all. After the swimming pool the sun started to shine and we spent time in the garden were the kids made a hut next to the hut dad made with blood sweat and tears.. Wende said something funny but it makes perfect (kids) sense.. she said (when mom applied sun screen): "mommy, I don't want to get a tan because then I would have to marry a black person" (translated a good I possibly can..)

Mamma day and visiting grandpa and grandma

Yesterday Nils played against Berkel Enschot but they lost that game with 22 to 16 unfortunately. Has to do with poor training and Nils having a bit of a problemn with playing together as a team.. Long story short, we're working on it. See the video's here.

Today ofcourse was mother's day and we (nils Wende and dad) prepared a traditional breakfast in bed with mom. Each of us had a croissoint, fresh orange juice and a present for mom.

After that we moved a floor down to continue breakfast with eggs boiled or fried and fresh backed buns out of the oven.. Around lunch time we went to see grandma and granddad who were stayingh at a horse breeder farm. After the kids explored the surroundings we went to a playground with a restaurant called 't appeltje. The kids played while we tried to keep them from falling into disasters..

We concluded with pancakes and wende had poffertjes.

Here are some more video's

(There's also one video from a few years back when we were on holiday with friends Arthur and Lisa)

Ingmar 3 years old!

This weekend we celebrated Ingmar's third birthday togehter with family and friends although not all of the family could join us unfortunately. Ingmar was given a new bed, a real junior bed where he can climb in and out without mim and dad helping him (although he already could climb out by himself.. ) And a new Cars blanket! That afternoon for the first time he didn't mind going to bed for a nap.. My dad joined us and stayed over for the night and the next morning my dad and I went to mom's resting place to bring some flowers and clean it up a bit. The kids satyed at home with Lisette and played with some friends. In the afternoon dad took the bus back to Hulst again.. It was great to see him again and the kids love it having granddad over. and so do we ofcourse.
Here are some video's as well.. click here