food from my Euro trip

Kipsaute Bapao en curry, lekker.  (Chicken with peanut sauce in a steamed roll, with a sweet curry sauce, yummy)

real Belgian frietjes with mayonnaise. rumor has it, it was the Belgians who first came up with  frying potatoes as "fries". I really don't care where the genius of this idea came from, I am just happy it came. 

 

my first "Belgian Waffle" it was yummy, but remarkably tasted just like a waffle!

 De Koninck- one of the many beers famous in Belgium. It was very good.

 the first of many cappuccinos I drank in Amsterdam. 

familiar faces

my lovely Rita.

Ralda, a fellow student from Bible school.

 Rob and Desiree von Os. Rob was staff from my Bible school, and Desiree came to translate a few times.

more friends from Bible school- Anton, Johannes, Annet, Stella, and Marijke.

A few gals from my September 2005 DTS- Inge, Michelle and Mariska.  

my dear friend Jos, how many cappucinos did I have that day? I am not sure, but I was super jittery :)

revisiting Heidebeek

Sept 2002- July 2003 I was blessed to be able to do a Bible school though YWAM (SBS). On my trip to the Netherlands, I went back for a visit.

Nine years since I was first here. I love this place.

 This bike was so awesome, it made biking a breeze.

My view from my room while I was at Heidebeek for 4 days. It was so incredibly peaceful.

 Oh, Licht in Duuster, (housing) so many, many memories.

 Chickens at Heidebeek  :D

Stairs up to the view of the heatherfields.

I was looking forward to resting on the bench... but it was too muddy to get close.

 Heather.

Fietspad, my first dutch word = bikepath.... the country is covered with them.

 I was "glowing" after a long bike ride. So happy to be in Holland again.

Melchizedek

My sweet boy.  He loves his trains. I  look forward to taking him to Europe to actually ride on a train. The only trains out here carry cargo. Until then, he plays with his Thomas Trains.

He isn't looking at the camera because he is watching a  Thomas the Train movie.

He did get to ride on  a train roller coaster at the fair :)

and a Nemo boat ride too, and it had a fun bell

He has a magical smile.

Mariana

It was Mariana's first day of school today. Of course, this is already her third year of school so she is a pro for a four year old.

I sure wish she liked getting her picture taken, she has beautiful eyes, but she doesn't look at the camera very often.

I will also add some cute photos of her from when we went to the fair. We went to a kid friendly play that had audience participation. It was an old west style setting. Mariana was a dancing girl. Hoorah for dress up, she told me later she wanted to go back and be a cowgirl.... but we didn't have time.

 Matt also was in the play, he was the bad guy cowboy. I was also in the play, I was cast as the dog....  no pics of that though :)

here is some video of Mari dancing~

road tripping in the USA!

This past weekend we went to Helena, Mt for a wedding...... after viewing my photos I realized we did not get any pics of the bride and groom, yikes! anyways.... here is the best of what I did take......

In the car

8 hours in the car both ways..... but they did great

MelZ and Hanna (niece of the groom)

Cathedral of St. Helena... my picture does not do it justice

here is a pic of the Cathedral from the Internet

Dad and me at the reception

the reception was in a huge old barn, this is my mom and the kids

between the ceremony and reception, we found this awesome ice cream parlor that has an old fashioned carousel

I am realizing, I did not get any pictures of Matt and I together, of the bride and groom, or their families, or my parents together or when Melz asked a girl to dance with him.... of course, I was his words, but the girl accepted, and they were sooo cute! I think she was about 9 or 10....  that boy loves the ladies... (Matt took video of this though) all in all it was a fantastic trip.