Bloemendaal Beach!

Just throwing the tennisball at Bo….

Today I worked on my home work almost the entire day….Tomorrow I’m having 2 tests, one English test and one French test, pppfffhhh... pages full of words to learn...... Man I became so stuffy by that….

After all that work we nicely went to the beach in Bloemendaal. Man that was great! Bo loved it! We had taken along a tennis ball and Bo was running after that ball all the time. Sometimes he went into the sea and it looked as if he didn’t notice at all he was standing in the water up to his mouth just to catch the ball. He went in and out of the water as if it was one of those things he is doing every day over and over again, so beautiful man!

Digging the ball… so cool man…......

We walked quite a long part along the beach in the direction of Zandvoort…..

Here we are on our way back to the top of the dune...

Bo continued running in the sand, kept on running after his ball…..

After we climbed back up the dune we had a nice cup of pea soup with some French bread just to become warm again at the restaurant Parnassia on top of the dune…. man that was so delicious!

Bo was really tired after all that running when we came home, he is sleeping right now at the couch!
Go now, have to rise at 6.00 AM tomorrow….bye….later!

Pizza!

The pizza before it went into the oven…..

Tonight I made dinner. I could choose what we all would have and so I therefore I choose a pizza. At first I rolled out the dough and then I had put on the tomato sauce. After that I did some special pizza cheese on it and salami, onions, small tomatoes, anchovy and basil. Man what did that pizza look great!

That’s how my pizza looked like when it came out of the oven………

mmmmmmm.... It was pretty nice ……next week I’ll make another one!

Go and watch TV now…..bye…later!

Pay my respects!

Here I’m signing (pay my respects to those who have lost their lives for our freedom) the visitor’s book at the Canadian cemetery.....

Many people did that before me! Before me there were 2 boys from Haarlem, which I thought was quite a coincidence.... (Almost the area I come from)

Here is the little cottage at the entrance of the cemetery where I have signed the book.....

Later!

Holten Canadian War Cemetery!

The entrance of the Canadian War Cemetery...... Quite near our park (where we rented our cottage) there was a very large Canadian cemetery.

It really is a very big and beautiful cemetery.

The stairs which leads you to the cemetery...

Here where buried 1355 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in the Second World War when they liberated The Netherlands from the German occupation.

At the left side of the photo, that’s me with Bo walking to the fields where all grave tombs are…. ...

Many tomb stones... all next to each other and beside each one there are plants and flowers, so beautiful man!

1393 people.... fields and fields filled with tomb stones.... and more tomb stones…..

and more tomb stones.........

That’s me with Bo…., he is sniffing everywhere....

Dad examining the monument....

It was very impressive, all those graves.... and think of the fact that there are more Dutch cemeteries where Canadian soldiers from the Second World War are buried….....

Later!

Back home again!

The forest in Holten….

Yesterday afternoon we arrived back home again. Man it really was cool in Holten! What I liked the most was the fire place in our cottage; we made a big fire in it every day! That was so cool man, especially the last day when we had the biggest fire because we had to finish all wood. Dad and I made one big fire; it was hot in the room man!

We did quite a lot in Holten and the park where we were staying was great and beautiful and the cottage was also very pretty.

This was our cottage, really in the middle of in the forest.....

This is the centre of the park, there was a shop and a restaurant....

We also visited the Holterberg (Holter Mountain), man what a mountain that was, 194 feet high! We didn’t even saw it when we reached the top of the mountain; we were going down without noticing it at all, but it was beautiful there, lots and lots of trees all colored red almost an Indian Summer in the Netherlands…

We have also been to a Canadian Cemetery , where Canadian soldiers are buried who have died in The Netherlands during The second World War between 1939 and 1945. There I’ll be writing about later on…..








Here a beautiful photo of a couple of mushrooms in our garden at our cottage in Holten.....

It was great in Holten, but being back home again is also very nice..... Later!

Autumn holidays!

The Holterberg (Holter mountain)......

The autumn holidays are there. Man it really were busy weeks these last weeks! Home work, home work and more home work.....

Thursday I had the big school party, which was pretty cool man! All DJ's preformed there, so cool man. But at 11.30PM there was a voice through the microphone that said that all the kids from 1th and 2sd grade had to leave and go home. The party went on for the older kids from my school.

The following morning I had to go to school again, but in the afternoon I was rather tired man. But now there are the autumn holidays and tomorrow we are leaving for the forest. We are going to Overijssel this time to Holten at the Holterberg (the Holten moutain). The highest mountain of the Netherlands, 37 miles high they say. I'll love to go there, just some running arround with Bo in the forrest!

Go now and go to play outside for awhile...bye... see you later..

Wooouuuw.....

Aunt Suus with her scooter.....

A few days ago I got a couple of photographs from aunt Suus from Canada... Isn’t she a tough girl?

Here she is with her entry party....

It had to place a couple of photos on my blog….

Later!

New bowlingball!

Wooouuuuwww... isn’t it beautiful!

This afternoon after school we have been to Jos Goedhart’s bowling shop and did buy a new bowling ball. I needed a new ball (said the coach) a half side ball, with which you can throw the ball with special effect and with a fingertip grip. That is a grip with which fingers are only inserted into the ball as far as the first joint, it increases the distance between the thumb and fingers, thus giving a brief extra time difference between the thumb and fingers being released, which allows the fingers to give more lift, so imparting more revolutions to the ball.

Fortunately Jos had that ball in stock so he immediately made it fit to my hand. That lasted pretty long, he had to measure my fingers a few times and I had to try it all the time. It all succeeded very well. Immediately after the bowling ball was finished we went the bowling house, I had to try it out! So I played a few games for awhile and it went better than I could ever expect. Man what a cool ball, I threw a 179 game, so great and that with a new ball!

Go now, will watch some TV for awhile….bye… later!

KLV Party!

Ticket for the party in the Patronaat...

A few days ago I bought a ticket at school for the school party which will be next week Thursday in the Patronaat in Haarlem.












The Patronaat...

That will be such a cool party man! DJ Roog, DJ Chuckie and Gary's Nooga will perform there, so cool man! I can hardly wait till next Thursday.

Go now, have to do my homework tomorrow I’m having a English test….. bye… later!