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Merry -X-mas and a happy New Year to everybody reading this.

It is halfway between the two party's and we still have snow here in Enschede. The original plan included some skiing in nearby Sauerland, but

Weekend trip

Our vacation is coming closer and closer. On Friday last week our new tent arrived. We took the opportunity and decided to test it on Saturday. So we packed our stuff and headed north west towards Hindeloopen on the Ijseelmeer.

Summer

It seems that summer has arrived in the Netherlands. The last weeks have been exceptionally nice. Beautiful weather no rain lots of sun. Tina, Sophie and Emily have only one or two more school days and then their summer break starts. We will go to Austria for about 3 weeks. However, it is still not clear where we are going :-( Kommt Zeit, kommt Rat :-)

BBQ season opening

Hurray! First BBQ this year. While Tina sent me shopping for today's lunch I got an update for the shopping. So instead of just fish I also bought some meat (including the for some reason typical dutch Sate shashlik) and beer. Sophie and Emily shared their new table and we all enjoyed a beautiful evening in the sun on our balcony.

Weekend trip and how we got LOST

We are LOST. Lat time we visited Shabnam and Walter they lured us into watching LOST, as a result we are now LOST. Thanks Shabnam and Walter :-)

Nevertheless, we managed to get away from the TV and went to Den Haag last weekend. We only made it to the beach at Scheveningen, but Sophie and Emily really liked it. They had a lot of fun in the sand and chasing waves. After everybody got wet we went to meet the Austrians Abroad. They had a party in a bowling center. It was nice and Sophie danced a lot to the music played by the Belgian band called Gipfelfreunde (?!?). I guess there will be images but I have to get them from Tina first.

Progress

We are making progress. Nearly all the boxes are gone from the flat and Tina and Sophie are close to opening their bottles of champagne to celebrate this. Today Sophie went on here first bicycle tour. Emily got a free ride on my bike but Sophie used her own bike to go to the Viermarken farm and visit the pony's on the way. 3km for her first tour -- not to bad.

Other things that have happened include a trip to Austria to not forget what mountains look like and how thin air feels. We went to Stubaital for a few days. We made two tours. The one brought us to the Senn Joch Hütte from the end station of Schlick2000. While the other one nearly brought us to the Franz Senn Hütte, but we stopped already at the Alpeineralm. In both cases Sophie got a ride their sleeping, but walked back both times (40 min and 1.5 hours).

Pictures will follow as soon I get hold of them, hopefully together with some older images that still need to be transfered from the old homepage.