Queen’s day 2007!

Small boats in the Prinsengracht....

This morning we went to the queen’s free market in the centre of our village.

After that we went with Grandpa, Ruud and Kim and Roy to Amsterdam. Man what a crowd, there were so many people, but it was very nice! Of course there was the free market but there also was a lot of music made by DJ’s and live musicians and there were lots of small boats with people who sailed through all the canals.

Here we had our first drink at cafe the Lelie in the Jordaan (centre of Amsterdam), which we always visit at first when we arrive in the Amsterdam’s Jordaan.

You first have to buy a glass in that area for $2,75 and then you can order a drink. Mom had been very smart and had taken along the glasses of last years Queen’s day and they just filled them up as if we had bought them just a while ago, happily the glasses were still exact the same glasses they sold last year. Well so we saved this year $19,--, quite smart eh?

Afterwards we walked through the entire Jordaan and it was great, so many things and people to see.

Here we are walking at the Egelantiersgracht, busy eh?

At the Westerstraat there is a café, were they put every year at Queen’s day on the façade a very big poster. This year it was a poster of Prince Willem Alexander and his 3 little daughters, Daddy Cool! So great to see man!

Prince Willem Alexander as Daddy Cool and the 3 little princesses, Amalia, Alexia and the new born Ariaan.

Also dog Sindy was there again at the Swan choir in the Jordaan. That dog is lying there every year on the same chair just to get much hugs for $0,27.

The Westertoren at the Prinsengracht...

It was very nice in Amsterdam, it all was one very grand festival with only happy people, who were smiling, laughing and singing and dancing. Man, Queen’s day is a beautiful festival in Amsterdam! That type of festivals must be there much more than only ones a year, there never is a quarrel, no fights, just everybody is partying and everybody is happy, that is so cool man!

Go to bed...... bye…. see you tomorrow!

New bike!

Waaauuuuwww...... Isn’t it cool?

Yesterday I have got a new bicycle! Yes, I have to cycle 7 miles to my new school in august and that isn’t possible to do on my old bike. Man it is such a cool bike, it’s so complete. I’m so very happy with it.

Yesterday I’ve already cycled through our entire neighborhood. The little computer on the bike says I’ve driven already 10 miles! Soooo..... cool!

Well I will go and cycle for a few minutes now…. see you later!

Captain Bo!

Bo in front of the boat....

Yessss…we’re back again….the holidays are over! We have been to the forest in Limburg (south part of the Netherlands) for a few days. Man the weather was really beautiful; it was very, very hot! Every day it was about 83F, sometimes it really was too hot to do anything.

Tuesday we rented a water pedal boat, so cool man just cycling throw all those little canals in the area where we were staying in. Bo was sitting in front of the boat and watched everything as if he was the captain of the boat, he loved it all! Only sometimes we came across some little ducks or a dog at the shore, well he started to bark at all of them.

In the distance you can see the centre of the forest park Weerterbergen where we were staying…..

Then it already was very hot, there was no wind at all, just look at the water.....

Our house with the waterfront sight….

We did quite a lot this vacation! Took quite long walks with Bo, saw quite some cities in the neighborhood, Roermond and much more, one evening we went bowling and yesterday I participated in a bowling game. It really went fabulous and I won the first price a beautiful trophy!

Nice trophy eh?

We also saw many asparagus fields on our tour. Secretly have I picked a few asparagus from the fields, I could not leave there without picking some of them, there were so many of them just sticking out of the ground.

Sssssstttt just don’t say anything!

Bo had a dog friend over there, a pretty large dog that just lived in the house beside our house, he was called Pim. Bo and Pim played together every day and then they were tired, it was too hot for them as well…

Pim and Bo.....

This is our garden which had a water front sight and where Pim and Bo played all the time…

It really was a fine vacation, we have also taken along a few kilos of asparagus which we are having for dinner tonight….. see you later!

Flower parade in Haarlem!

Gedempte Oude gracht in Haarlem (famous street in Haarlem city center)....

This afternoon we have been to Haarlem, there was the flower parade. Man that was beautiful! All carriages made of flowers.

An entire windmill made of flowers, cool eh?

It really was great in Haarlem today!

Will go to bed now, tomorrow we will go to Weert (city in the province of Limburg, south part of the Netherlands, 2 1/2 hours drive from here)! Bye…. see you soon!

Last day of the Fun fair!

Walking back to the car….

This afternoon we went to the Green Luxuriance again and played with Bo for quite some time… Throwing the ball and have a good run….. Bo loved it! Only just when Mom started to make a video Bo lost the ball 2 times on his way back and came across some other things he liked…. But we all had great fun, man what was that dog tired afterwards.

Tonight we have been to the fun fair in our village for the last time. Well I did win again a lot of points with that coin machine. Together with the points I already collected a few days ago I had won 16,000 points in total, I did exchange the points for a beautiful alarm clock, cool thing man!

When it got entirely dark, there was the fire works show, which always is on the last evening of the fun fair. Well it really was quite pitiful, just a couple of splashes and a couple bangs and that was it. No, then you must experience the fire works in Spain, which is just so cool man! If they let off fire works there it really is smashing, after half an hour the entire neighborhood is filled with smoke, and the ground is shaking by the bangs, so cool!

Well it turned out pretty late now so I’ll go to bed now…see you tomorrow, bye!

Holidays!

May holidays...... 14 days free from school! I only will do things I like!

Fun fair in the village!

Mark and I in the break dance....

This afternoon after doing my homework I went to the village centre by bicycle because there is the fun fair at the soccer area. Well that was cool man! I went with Luke a couple of times in the bumper cars and a man gave me a few coins for coin machine. When I did those coins in the machine immediately came out a 500 points sheet, so cool man!

Tonight after dinner we all have been to the fun fair. Mark was also there and with him I have been in the break dance, see the photograph here above and the small film under it. If you look very well (impossible to see!) you can see at 00.07 seconds Mark and me in the middle of the screen, but only if you look verrrrrry well!

Mark, Dad and I at the machine...

We also played at the coin machine to throw in some coins. I obtained eventually 6500 points from the machine, not bad eh? I keep my points up to Saturday, then we perhaps go again to the fun fair and if I win more points than I can exchange them for a larger price, yes clever eh?

Man it was so cool at the fun fair, I can’t wait to go again…… go to bed now... bye….. see you tomorrow!

Big rubbish heap!

Bo is looking for the ball….

Sunday afternoon we have all cleared the barn and then we had a very big rubbish heap! Tomorrow the municipal dust-removal lorry will pick everything up and for this reason Dad and I have just put all the rubbish outside at the parking area quite near our house.

Bo liked the enormous heap of old things but he hated to see that the old soccer ball was in there as well. Bo escaped from our garden a few times and went to the heap of old things and removed the soccer ball from the heap every time and played with it as if we would not notice him.

Just a few minutes ago when I let him out, just see the photo, he again was busy trying to get the ball out! He is so crazy about balls, it doesn’t matter if it is a tennis ball or a soccer ball he loves all the balls, whole or all to pieces, it doesn’t matter him at all. A ball is just so cool eh Bo?

Go and watch TV for awhile….. bye …. See you tomorrow!

It was hot today!

It is already dark and Bo is looking for Timmie... but he is already back in his hutch….

Today it was even warmer then yesterday. It really was hot, the thermometer in the garden said it was 82 F in the shade! In the sun it was bloody hot.

This afternoon I went with Dad to the Praxis to buy a couple of wooden laths and then we heard on the radio that the marathon in Rotterdam was suspended! That all because it was too hot there became so many people sick of the heat and had to go to the hospital. Man that heat on the 15^th of April! And its not even summer jet!

Here is someone who became very sick by the heat at the marathon of Rotterdam.......

Tonight we had dinner outside again, it still was pretty warm. It becomes already dark and still is it hot.....

Go to bed.... see you tomorrow!

Counting!

Counting cars, cyclists and pedestrians near our school.... (also Bo went along!)

This morning Mark and I had to do an assignment for school at 8.45. We had to count all the cars, cyclists and pedestrians just near our school. It was just an arithmetic assignment. Man it was busy out there! We had a very full list!

Today it was pretty warm. I played outside all afternoon and this evening we had dinner outside in our garden and it still is rather warm.

Tonight was the first time this year we had dinner outside in our garden. Dad had obtained a very nice meal from the Chinese here in our village! Mmmm..... Koe Lo Kai and Babi Pangang with Chinese noodles, which is ever so delicious!

Go now and watch the Ajax soccer game on TV, bye…. see you tomorrow!

Practicing, practicing!

The musical.......

Today at school we have been practicing the final school musical again. We still have quite a lot to do but it is very cool to do. I don’t have to learn a lot of text but I have to say short sentences very frequently. Fortunately we still have enough time to learn everything.

I can’t think of anything else to say about to day… so I say… bye… see you tomorrow!

Difficult TOPO!

The Middle and North of America....

Yesterday we had a very difficult TOPO at school. North America wasn’t that difficult, but the middle of America was pretty hard to do! Nicaragua, Guatemala, Appalachen, Monterrey and Costa Rica....ppphhhhfff...

Mom kept saying that there is a Monterrey in California as well, somewhere near to San Francisco, but that one did not participate... too bad eh Mom?

I have studied the entire weekend just to get it into my head, even yesterday morning before school started I studied hard. Fortunately it was all worth it…. I got a 10!

Go and watch TV for awhile….. bye…see you tomorrow!

Just an ordinary day…

Bo and the tennis-ball....

Today I went back to school, the holidays were over. It was a very ordinary day.

Played outside after school, just a little game of soccer. Also Bo was outside in the garden, he played with his tennis-ball. Man he demolished it in such a sort time, however it’s so great to watch him when he is doing that! The only problem is that we’re running out of tennis-balls now…. still we’ve 2 more to go….

Go upstairs… bye… see you tomorrow!

Easter fair!

Outside 2007....

This afternoon we have been to the Easter Fair at the Floriade area (Floriade is an international exhibition of flowers and gardening, held every 10 years in The Netherlands).

In that area there still is the enormous roof of the Floriade and under that roof there was quite a lot to see. In and outside furniture, garden things, lawn-mowers and much, much more....

You could eat and have a drink everywhere….

Here you can see well that it is only a roof and you could just walk outside.

Go and watch some TV…. bye…see you tomorrow!

Happy Easter!

I wish everyone a very happy Easter!

See you soon!

Watching the animals!

Mark with Bo who is watching the goat and the calf.

This afternoon we have been to the children's farm with Bo. Bo didn’t know what to think about those big animals, they were so big! There also were a lot of baby goats in the children’s farm, they were so sweet man!

They are so exciting….

Afterwards we played outside, it was a very warm day!

Go upstairs....bye… see you tomorrow!

Easter Holidays!

One chocolate Easter bunny to the other…

Today we had the Easter celebration at school and we watch the Jesus Christ superstar musical on DVD. Man that lasted long! We started watching the musical before the Easter lunch and after the lunch the second part, ppppffffhhh.....

Mom loves the Jesus Christ musical, she saw the real musical in London when she was a kid. Now she has a Canadian version on DVD of Jesus Christ superstar and she really is wild about it. Well, I don’t like it, only singing all the time so boring man!

But now it’s Easter! Go upstairs and watch the soccer game on TV….. bye ... see you tomorrow!

Project evening at school!

My class room with everything concerning trees.....

Tonight there was the end of project evening at school and so all the parents could see in our classroom what we have made these last few weeks at school and the project was all about trees. In front of our classroom there we all together made a big tree, rather nice eh? The tree is standing in some sort of tray we made of bricks which came from our garden. The first thing Dad said when he saw it was, Oh… I’ll get those bricks back by tomorrow, well I’m very happy about that…..

Tomorrow we all have to clear everything up in our classroom. And than we're having a nice Easter lunch at school and after that it will be the Easter holidays….

Go upstairs... bye… see you tomorrow!

Lecture!

My essay about computers from which I made my lecture….

This afternoon I did my lecture at school and it went pretty nice. Many children gave me 9 and a couple of them even gave me 9 1/2!

To bad the teacher said my lecture was too long. She had warned me yesterday that if I would make the lecture too long she would give me punishment points which would lessen my final mark. Yes... one day in advance she told me that. Yesterday I had it all entirely ready and I could not change it anymore in such a sort term and I had been working on it for so long! Well the teacher gave me an 8 1/2.

Another time there were children before me who had lectures for almost half an hour and they got a 9. Well I think it’s stupid!

Will go and play with Bo for awhile …..bye…. see you tomorrow!

Bo playing!

Now he is tired.......
But just click on the photo than you can see in the small film how he was playing with Timmie. Bo was giving Timmie kisses all the time just through the wire netting of Timmies rabbit-run…..

Tomorrow lecture time!

Bo had to look at all of those cases with things I’ve put ready for tomorrows lecture…………..

Tomorrow I’ll have to do my lecture about computers and for this reason I practiced my lecture this afternoon for the last time. Well it went rather good!

However, it was so cool to collect all of that stuff with Dad. A lot of things came from Dad’s work. There was that man who had so many computer stuff. I have got a few very old hard disks, a zip-drive, an old internet card and a very old modem and lots of other stuff! So cool that I can show so many things during my lecture!

Go upstairs.... bye… see you tomorrow!

New room!

My new desk which I got from my school…..

Yesterday we have been busy all day in my room. Friday I got a new desk from my school (see Friday’s post) and then I have got a couple of new bookcases from Mom and Dad to make it all complete. Man my room has become so beautiful with all those new furniture! I’m so glad with it al. So I’ve got an entire new room now and that in just one day, that’s cool eh?

Go to bed... bye…. see you tomorrow!