Karin and Maddi's Adventures in Holland!

I finally found a computer! It's only a 2 minute walk away from Oma Botter's house on Vogelkers, in the local library - Vestiging Vroomshoop. The people there were really nice and even let me work in their office!

Wow, it's been a busy few days with lots of flying, not much sleeping, meeting lots of new people...

I have been really amazed how quickly I've picked up on the Dutch language (not that I'm anywhere near perfect!), sometimes I'm helping Dad, sometimes I think of the dutch word even if I'm just thinking in my head!

Where do I start to write about the last few days? So much has happened, so many new

Waiting to check in

faces, so many different meals...

I'll start at the beginning. Everything went well at the airport in Perth except Maddi had quite a high temperature (she had a cold) which didn't go down with panadol which I was a bit worried about, but nothing more came of it. You couldn't have asked for a better baby to travel with, she was happy pretty much all the time, slept quite a bit etc. It was really good that Dad and Wiwik were there to help a bit too, especially when we had to put all our "liquid's" in our hand luggage in special trays to go through the machine. Otherwise I might have had to put Maddi on the ground or ask a stranger to hold her.

Maddi's "Perth grandmother" Anne

I've just had a fair bit of trouble putting the photos in this blog, so for today I'm just going to write underneath them all even though I have soooo much to write about already. Hopefully I can tell some more in the next few days. So, for now, lots of photos to give everyone (especially my kids Bianca, Angus and Xavier) an impression of my last few days! P.S. If anyone knows how to make the photos go next to eachother in blogs and also how to turn them the right way around, please email me!! (The ones that are next to eachother are accidental!)