What a blast!
2 January, 2011 - 05:43 — Mieke
I know, it's been a while since my last blog. But I did warn you. In the meantime, we've been doing a lot of things, among which are hiking (which is walking by Dutch standards, only it does sound infinitely more cool when you call it hiking), visiting the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose (fantastic), playing on the beach (also nice), and more shopping (I love Trader Joe's). Oh, and we've been to the doctor to get shots for Lucas and gain ourselves a green light so he can start preschool next week. Turns out, in addition to the green light, he also gained too much weight. Nothing to worry about, since he's getting more activity now we've arrived in sunny California. And the top experience of these last two weeks: I aced my written test (to get my drivers licence). Now Bart already notified me that I should regard it as an experience. And that it was. I actually sat there for FOUR hours, to take a test which took me FIVE MINUTES. So yay DMV. But I do admit to having fun: it brings people together when you have to stand in line for 30 minutes to get a ticket to get in line. Although judging from the faces and phrases I heard, not everybody found it equally amusing.
Now, this blog should of course be dedicated to the refreshing start of the new year and the huge party we had which led up to that refreshing start. Here comes:
We actually missed the 12 o'clock thingy, since we were watching a movie. But only by five minutes. I heard some distant noise (very distant mind you). What a blast! Or not. O well, there's always next year.
Now, although I'm no expert on the subject, I do find the people here more friendly than back home. They show considerable interest in our children, and are always interested when they find out about our intercontinental move (although as to the geographical knowledge on The Netherlands, some additional education might have been in order). Back home people were somewhat less sharing. At the same time, I also witnessed a couple of screaming matches that are unequivalent to anything I've seen at home.
As far as the interesting language of Lucas goes, here are this week's winners:
"Ik maak een prongetje van blijdgap" (I have no clue where he got this from)
"Ik ben een grapje"
"Dank you"
"LAULIEEE" (by which he means "Larry", and he got it from a movie he's been watching for a week now). Because he said it while we were driving in the mountains, we assumed he meant to say "slowly", but we caught the real meaning when he said it again during the movie.
So for now: Happy New year for everybody, especially for those of you who will experience some major life changing events this year.
Now, this blog should of course be dedicated to the refreshing start of the new year and the huge party we had which led up to that refreshing start. Here comes:
We actually missed the 12 o'clock thingy, since we were watching a movie. But only by five minutes. I heard some distant noise (very distant mind you). What a blast! Or not. O well, there's always next year.
Now, although I'm no expert on the subject, I do find the people here more friendly than back home. They show considerable interest in our children, and are always interested when they find out about our intercontinental move (although as to the geographical knowledge on The Netherlands, some additional education might have been in order). Back home people were somewhat less sharing. At the same time, I also witnessed a couple of screaming matches that are unequivalent to anything I've seen at home.
As far as the interesting language of Lucas goes, here are this week's winners:
"Ik maak een prongetje van blijdgap" (I have no clue where he got this from)
"Ik ben een grapje"
"Dank you"
"LAULIEEE" (by which he means "Larry", and he got it from a movie he's been watching for a week now). Because he said it while we were driving in the mountains, we assumed he meant to say "slowly", but we caught the real meaning when he said it again during the movie.
So for now: Happy New year for everybody, especially for those of you who will experience some major life changing events this year.