obstacles found at Monty's bedroom door...

Monty seems to have a thing for putting "fences" in front of his bedroom door. I am sure a psychologist would have a great time analyzing this.
Incidentally, he hates sleeping in his own bed. He much prefers Mommy's bed. Usually he ends up going to sleep in Mommy's bed and then later gets moved to his own bed. On days that he does go to sleep in his own bed, we find some of the following in the door way.

holiday weekend

We had a great time last weekend visiting Opa and Oma in the Netherlands. Well, it didn't start off too great because we had some train troubles getting there. Normally we take three trains to get there, this time one train broke down and we ended up with a total of five trains and part of the way covered by bus. But other then that...

It was my parents 40th wedding anniversary, but I now realize that I have no pictures with my parents. I'll have to see if some else has any.

We had a great time and great weather. One day we went to the beach (but i forgot my camera that day) and one day we went to a little play lake.
Monty spend most of the day digging in the sand and riding on rafts. Stoney spend half of his time riding the zip line and the other half of the time throwing water at girls (and so it begins...)






For the occasion of the 4oth wedding anniversary the entire family (which sounds like a lot of people but really there are only 10 of us) went to a aviary park. Some of the bird were really tame and we could feed them.




We didn't feed the penguins, but we watched them being fed.


This is a picture of the only grand children, that my mom took with regret. My brother Fredo and his wife Nicky (and son Thijmen) are planning to move to Sweden in November so my mom wonders when she will have all three grandchildren together again.




There was also a playground in the park, with some rides and such.




Stoney was pretty miffed about the playground, because we were supposed to have access to all electronic rides with our pass to the aviary, but he found that that statement was not true. Never mind he could go in the water rides, bumper cars, race cars, moon bounce, slides etc. He was perturbed that he could not do all the video games and shooting games etc for free.
he said: "the video games are electronic too, so if they say we can do "all electronic rides" it should include video games and stuff. Besides, the moon bounce is included in electronic rides and it is not even electronic!"
He can get very technical about things.
Anyway, we let them do the shooting game once.



All in all a great weekend. Good for the boys because now they have two weeks of end of the year testing at school.