Sunday, March 16, 2008

Family visits

The first family visits are behind us. It is really great fun to be able to get into the car and simply drive to Arnhem or Hoogerheide to visit family. We already visited my mom in Hoogerheide twice. We had to pick up our 11 boxes of clothes, toys and other items, so we had a good reason to go there. Her little senior-citizen-house is not really big enough for two over-active little girls, but we all enjoyed the visits. Emma and Janne got to play with some of my old toys, which my mom kept all these years!
We also went to see Pieter's son Michiel, his wife Marielle and their three children in Arnhem. Charlotte, Pieter oldest daughter, surprised us by comming all the way from Alblasserdam with her two boys as well. We took a short walk, to a nearby field with horses. Emma and Janne rode bicycle with their nephews and niece (!). It was a fun, noisy, wild afternoon, with six kids aged three to eight and one baby. Dutch kids are definitely more vocal than Taiwanese. Our own 'Taiwanese' girls adapted quite quickly :-) And for dinner, we ordered Chinese ...

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