Back in Enschede again!

We're in communication mode again. We spent the last week with the Feunekes family at a farm camping lodge type place in Winterswijk. It was a really nice week together. Especially seeing as we haven't seen a lot of the family in seven years, and some never before. We had quite a week. Monday was my birthday. Spent the morning cleaning the house we'd been staying in in Groningen and then we had a 2.5 hour drive to the camping. In the beginning of the week we had some rainy weather so we spent an afternoon at the local pool, which the kids thought was fabulous. On Thursday we did some shopping at the local shopping street. Really neat. On Friday we went to the Eftelling. It is a very large theme park built around the drawings of Anton Peek. There is a fairytale section where many fairytales are kind of acted out by mannequins some that actually moved too. It's incredibly well done. Then there are many different rides you can go on. It's kind of like Disney land. We discovered that Mikah has a stomach of stone and Aidan reminded us that he doesn't. He threw up before we even left the camping. Marc threw up on the way too.... They were fine after that thankfully. Mikah and Christiaan both went on roller coasters. One is called the python and is basically an entire minute of blackout. Mikah also went on the pirate boat that swings back and forth higher and higher... Aidan and I went on an old wooden roller coaster called the Pegasus. It doesn't go upside down. It just goes up really high and you loose your stomach on the way down. Neither of us got sick, but I think we were both glad when it was done.... Click here if you want to see more about the Eftelling: http://www.efteling.nl/home.aspx

Going up the first big hill on the Pegasus...

Some pics of us at the Eftelling.

Saturday we went to a corn maze in Germany. We grownups found our way throught the maze, but Aidan and his cousin Anne-Marieke kind of got left behind in the maze... much to their dismay. They were both in tears when they were found. We took a family photo there under a big tent which they had filled up with hay bales and dried corn kernels for kids to play in. They also had a skelter track there with some big skelters to go around on. Very fun! On Sunday we took the camping's tractor, a 1975 Massey Ferguson, and wagon for a two hour tour of the countryside. What a beautiful place! We came across a large group of people out for a ride in old fashioned horse drawn buggies all decked up in their sunday best.

So now we're back in Enschede for our last week in Holland. I think that we are all ready for a more permanent place to call home. We have found out that MAF has a home for us in Bandung and it has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 storey's. Always nice to know...