The last day in NL before we went to the new house in France was spend stocking up on things to take and getting organized. The kids where on their best behavior, all too cute, and also excited about going to the new house soon.
Eelco in St Petersburg
Just before he left for the Netherlands Eelco had a business trip to St Petersburg. It looks like it was a lot of fun!
A "Finally on the upper deck of a A380 Selfie"
A tourist Selfie
They hav ethe same grin -;)
But not for long - as I understand Eelco ate bear - in this lovely Restaurant
At the famous palace
And quite nice weather! Even the wing under restoration to the left looks nice this way.
The Cutlet
Whilst in the Netherlands we went to see our friends Jonas & Tjitske. Jonas is a big chef - and we always get the best food when there. Jonas served us his version of a BBQ which is fabulous. So thought Duuk. As soon as the first plate with food came within reach he grabbed off that plate the biggest & juiciest lamb cutlet. And then with 5 teeth (yes our kid #3 does not follow the rule that teeth arrive in pairs, he has had just 5 teeth for months now), he spend the remainder of the evening making his way through that cutlet.
After 2 hours it got cold, so we put a jumper on Duuk (yet is is not his but use dot be Kaatje's), over the cutlet as he would not let go.
Another 2 hours later, late in the evening, we went home. And this is what I found in the car seat the next morning. Think he did a great job -:)
The world cup - our experience
We travelled quite some during the world cup and hence had somewhat of a strange 'viewing' experience of the whole event. Fortunately our driver is a big football fan and hence he would call us wherever we were several hours before the game to wish us luck and afterwards to congratulate us - no matter the time of day.
The first game was on the first day for us in the new house, in which we did 6.5 hours Ikea, 3 van hauls of furniture and more (separate post later). By the time we thought about the game it was more then halfway through - we saw the last 15 min or so and at first thought we were being fooled by the scores.
By the time the 2nd & 3rd games of the pool came around we had moved into the new house and had TV but not the right channels for the game, so we went to our new 'local' 'l'Edelweis at the bottom of the hill.
Tired but happy - waiting for some goals
with the kids - not that interested - other then keen on ordering drinks for us, in French, at the bar. Un jus de'pomme s'il vous plait, et un plus for papa -:) (a beer)
We missed the 1/8 Final as we were somewhere over Iraq at the time up in the air.
We caught the 2nd half and the extension in the lounge in Dubai a week later with our summer au pair Nina en route to Bangalore
Again not much interest from Rick & Kaat, whilst we have no evidence but have been led to believe Duuk stayed awake most of the game when he went with Daddy to watch it at a friends house after a night out (kick off 1:30am India time!). Someone texted us kindly about the results of the penalties later as e had to board at that time.
By the time the 1/2 final came around we where finally in a position to have a viewing party with other Orange fans. As we had 3 sleeping kids at home we invited everyone over.
The preparations were half the fun and we did a big fashion show with all our Orange wear.
By 1:30 we had in the house 6 Dutch people, one of whom on a business trip from Dubai who came over in the middle of the night from his hotel, 3 Indians, 1 Brazilian (no longer in tears), an Argentinian Lady and a Gabonese guy. Great fun, not such a great game to watch
We never bothered to stay up or watch the game last Saturday. 1:30am is too difficult after a full day with 3 kids. Easier to watch the summary -;)
The Jorritsma Clan
The first day we where all back in NL we met up with Eelco's family at a farm we have been to before together.
Duuk, not afraid of anything, of course was right in there.
What was more surprising is that Rick did change a lot in a year and was a lot braver around the animals. (beetje boer met kiespijn!)
Whilst we where there the pigs were being fed. A very loud, noisy, smelly scene which Rick later in the holidays re-enacted many times in our garden in France.
Duuk on the shoulders of our big nephew Tjibbe
and eating ice cream with Jeppe
After the farm we went to Eelco's brothers' house where the kids played some more
and where Rick, almost like a museum curator or guide, talked us through the street art and his 4x4m pirate ship drawing.
and as is starting to become a tradition, Kaat had het toenails painted by Uncle Wybe Jan.
Duuk travels business
Our little boy travels in style these days. Thanks to airline rules not allowing me to fly alone with 3 kids 4 and under, Eelco had to take one of them when he left for the Netherlands a week earlier then the rest of us. As Duuk is the only one without 'obligations' and 'commitments' in Bangalore the vote was easy.
So little Duuk travelled Business class with Papa on Emirates from Bangalore to Amsterdam and back 4 weeks later, enjoying all the lovely amenities on the top deck of the A380. "mmm"says Duuk on the first leg from Bangalore to Dubai: "This is kind of ok but not quite the stander I expected -;)"
This lounge is more like it - great views, lots to see.
mmm, so who is sitting in front of us?
yes, I am thinking of a whole raft of things to do that you are not going to like much papa!
Like throwing things over the partition
Yeah - this is kind of comfortable…..
But no - of course I am not going to sleep! I might miss something.
yup, in the end he did sleep, by the time they made it to the Hague.
In the meantime, only 30 min after Eelco & Duuk left in the middle of the night I had company in his side of the bed.
On the way back I travelled with Eelco and Duuk up to Dubai - they left 1 week before the rest of us again as they had also left Bangalore 1 week earlier. Enjoying the last few hours of our fabulous holiday and the super new house in France we are so happy with.
Again sleep was overrated thought Duuk and he played with the Emirates stroller the full 3.5hrs of the lay over.
There is always time to catch up on sleep back home right?!
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