Home Again Soon

Well the time here in the Nederlands is almost up. Its been a fast 3 plus weeks. The first time in my life that I've been away from home for so long! On this last evening we had dinner with the neighbors and will now resume packing the bags! The baby Rebecca is going into dreamworld and the sun will set by 11 or so to allow me to Lunestatize! Tomorrow brings the 2 hour car trip to Dusseldorf and the 9 hour plane ride to Detroit, then the short one hour hop to Green Bay and the short drive home! It is quite the world we live in where a person can leave Europe and be home in Michigan the same day. And as goes the story for any extended vacation I am now flat broke, so if you, dear readers, have any extra money for me to live on till the next SS check send it by Pay Pal or USPS to Iron Mountain! I'll be forever grateful!

Its been quite a week here in the Nederlands. The weather has been cooperative for adventures here is the Zetten area and for the past three days in Germany in Bremen, the home of the Bremen Town Musicians one of the classic folk and fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The picture shows the fivesome's famous statue. We explored the historical areas and took a boat ride on the River Weeser. The building is the Bremen Town Hall dating to the 1600's and is still used for city administration. Of course the photographing of the baby Rebecca continues as she first learned to sit up and then started crawling a few days ago. Its time to crawler proof! Whoops, as I write this she just dumped over the floor scrub water pail! Oh, well, that's a part of being a baby! We don't have much planned for the rest of my stay here. A few walks and possibly a bike ride or two in this beautiful Dutch country setting are in order! Of course we won't forget to eat some more cheese!

Our trip to the Saturday Market

Our trip to the market in the neighboring town requires crossing the Rhine on the local ferry. The kids play in the town squares fountain. Our baby Rebecca was still of bit too small!

The marketers sell a variety of veggies and fruit and meats and a few trinkets and things. We

collected a bunch of strawberries, a watermelon, red peppers, tomatoes, some breads, and some delicious cooked fish! Of course a stop for coffee was necessary too!

Driving Around in Holland!

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Sign on to Blogger in Zetten and the above is what I see! Apparently the website thinks I can read the language here. I did recognize "Dashboard" and "Driving Around". I clicked a few times and made to the compose screen. Well, we haven't been driving around too much lately except at the airports where the plane seemed to taxi about as far as it flew in the last leg and of course we had to drive sort of straight to get to Zetten from Dusseldorf. Beth drove us home so she could find her way back to Dusseldorf when she brings me back to catch the plane home. I hope she threw out some crumbs to follow on that return to Dusseldorf trip. We do plan to little driving around on the bikes and in the car when the weather clears up a bit. We spent the day here photographing and playing with the baby, talking, eating and napping and photographing and playing with the baby again! Tonight I will get rid of the rest of the "jet lag" with a dose of Lunesta and be ready to hit the road to adventure come the new day. Check back again for more "driving around" as it develops!

"Ghost of the Forest"

A while back I wrote about Julia and her enjoyment of the Berenstain Bears books. While we visited there last week "Ghost in the Forest" arrived in the mail and Julia fell on love with the book. At first her Dad thought it would be too scary but Julia's reaction was ok. Tonight her Dad reported that Julia decided to be the reader at bedtime and read/recited the story! Ahh, what a reader we have developing!

What Does the Farmer Eat?

Last week while visiting Julia's Farm she told me about the dining habits of each of the animals. When I asked her what the farmer eats she responded with no hesitation whatsoever, "Pasta"!

Rebecca meets Relatives in Minnesota!

Above Rebecca meets her Uncle Christopher!
Here Grandpa is holding Genevieve of Northfield
Grandpa had to check out Julia's Farm!

The three cousins, Genevieve, Julia, and Rebecca
Rebecca visited with Aunt Barb and Stacia

All Bundled Up for the Journey

Tomorrow Rebecca of the Netherlands, her mother and I will be off to visit Rebecca's cousins in distant Minnesota. She'll be all bundled up and sleeping (we hope) in her car seat!

The Girls of Christmas 2006

What can Grandfather say other than declare that this is a great bunch of pictures of a great bunch of girls. From the top: ,Julia Playing, Rebecca of the Netherlands,Julia Reading, Rebecca Sleeping, , Genevieve Bundled Up, , and Genevieve Smiling!