Monday, June 3, 2013

the low country

on the way home

in french
the name
for the netherlands
is pays bas.

low country.

i never quite
realized
just how low
the
netherlands
was
until
i went there
from
switzerland...

. . .

in early may
we all took
a trip
to visit our
friend annemarie.
you may
remember her
from
her visit
to see us
when
vee was only
3 months old!

16dec2011_annemarie

i have known
annemarie
for almost
20 years...

she and grub
go
way back
too.

grub & annemarie (and a lot of cheese)

we have meant
to visit
annemarie
and her family
since we moved
to switzerland.
we finally
got
around to it.

hijink-borst family
annemarie, ronne, bram, & martijn

since
we have not
seen
annemarie & martijn
for a while
and
now
we both have
children
we mostly
spend time
together
and let
the children play.

vee was
fascinated
by the
big kids...

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ronne's new doll (4mai in NL).

and their toys...

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. . .

in NL (4mai).

remains of the day (4mai in NL).

she was always
right
behind them
watching
what
they did next...

but
vee had
her
own adventures too:



and
children
that
get dirty together
get clean together.

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. . . . .

we did do
a little
sight-seeing...

in woerden
vee traveled
in the
highest
of dutch-style...

vee rides dutch-style

and visitied
my favorite store-
HEMA!

trip to Hema in proper dutch toddler transport (3mai in NL).

. . . . .

in utrecht
we went
to the
dick bruna house
(home of all things nijntje).

dick bruna museum (utrecht)

visiting nijntje's house

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minimalist playpark - utrecht, nl

minimalist playpark - utrecht, nl

. . . . .

we
walked
in the bogs
near woerden.


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. . . . .

we took
a quick
evening trip
to amersfoort
to visit
my friend tom
from
the university.


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vee got
a tour
of the town
before
the sun
went down.

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. . . . .

we even took
a little trip
to amsterdam...

taking the tram in amsterdam

we did not
do much.
just walked
around.

we stopped
at a café
and
vee
asked for
a croissant
by name.

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and
vee
played
in a little park
with lots
of dutch
city kids.

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we
watched some
dutch pétanque.

dutch pétanque

time was short.

it
was
soon time
to leave
the low country...

low country

and head home
to higher ground.

xo