Holiday impressions

This year we had planned a two week holiday in the Netherlands. We decided not to go to far away to make sure we could bring our bikes and because we will leave to Greece in autumn.
Here are some pictures of our holidays. Enjoy!


When arriving somewhere one of the first things you have to do is going to a supermarket. This is what we did an all the kids wanted to give a helping hand.

We had rented a holiday house near a lake and the kids loved it.

Even Malte loved it - what else!

Hilde was totally into the sandcastles!

Don´t touch me!

We were very happy to have the chance to go to Warner Brothers Movie World with the girls. Remcos parents came to visit us for two days so we could leave Malte behind at our holiday home.
Here we sit in our very first attraction a Wildwasserbahn - don´t ask me what that is in english!

Hilde had a very good time.

Remco hadn´t! His spot - the one on the right side - was the worst one as you can see!

Me and Hilde in a small rollercoaster while Remco and Lotte were queueing for a bigger one.

She seemed to be very excited!

This shot isn´t the best one.

Remco and Lotte in the bigger rollercoaster. You needed to be 1,20m to get in.

Same demands with this attraction. Hilde had to stay outside!

And these are the flying Dutchmen.

We were also happy to welcome Niels (Remcos brother) and Mariska for a few days. Guess who is entertaining Lotte, Hilde and Malte!

We also spend a day at the zoo. To be honest, this is the only picture taken as it rained whole day!

Next day there still was some "rain water" left. Malte loved it and the girls joined him with the muddy games.

As Eric always says: Only a dirty child had a good day!

Hilde thought she had a good day.

Lotte, too.

And you don´t need to ask about Malte.

Some pictures of one of our bike trips.

Hilde did a great cycling job during the holiday. Before she didn´t want to start up and stop on her own. The first day of our holiday she decided that she now could do it on her own.

Malte enjoyed every single trip. Everywhere there was some "ba". This time on the right side.

Here some "ba" on the left side.

Here some different "ba" on the right side (could be some animal, church, whatever. In any case worth mentioning it).

Happy guy!

There is no picture of Lotte on her bike. She was too fast to catch and she doesn´t want to wait.

Weingarten

After our trip to my in-laws in the Netherlands we also joined my parents at the Lake of Constance area. The weather was beautiful so we were outside most of the day.

We also went to the pool of my home town where we had lots of fun that afternoon and Lotte even jumped from the 3m diving platform!

Malte loves being with the girls, especially when there is some ice-cream to share.

It seems that it was a tasty ice-cream!

And Lotte enjoyed hers, too.

Lichterfest

Last saturday we had tickets for the "Lichterfest" (lightfestival) at the Schlosspark in Schwetzingen. All of us went there and we had a lot of fun. There were lampions everywhere, good music, lovely food and lots of people enjoying their time.

Lampions where ever we went. It was such a beautiful sight by the time it got dark.

We brought Malte in a special baby back sack. Not only because we wanted to test how he would do in that thing, also because while sitting in the buggy he only would have seen legs and legs and legs....

Lotte and Hilde queuing for some face painting.

Remco and Malte watching a clown show while the girls are queuing.

Guess how long we queued?

1 and 1/2 hours. The most fascinating about it? The girls did not complain, nor fight, neither got fuzzy. They just were queuing for something that needed to be off their faces before getting to bed 3 hours later!

Hilde ended up being a beautiful flower girl.

And Lotte decided that she wanted to become a beautiful butterfly. I would say: the lady did a great job as both of the girls looked really gorgeous.

Butterfly meets flowers.

Malte took a very short time out. He woke up right before the fireworks started. It was a really swelling one I can tell you.

Happy 5th birthday, Hilde!

This week wednesday was Hildes big day. She was very excited to turn 5. That might have been the reason why she got up at 6.10 hours which we didn´t like at all!

As always, flowers for the birthday girl!

Even though she does not really look happy, I can tell you that she had a very happy birthday.

Malte, checking out all of Hildes presents.

Having fun times together. Watch the picture carefully and you get to know the girls favorite colors! I will post their bouncy balls another time.

Want some more Bitter Lemon?

We are back from Holland...

... to be honest, already quite a while ago. I just took a few "blog off" days, too. But here we go again.


Here we go for a small photo impression:



Flags at the beach of Scheveningen.

Lotte loved the time at the beach and in the sea - the water was actually quite chilly.

Hilde searching for shells - we have a bunch of them now.

Malte wasn´t interested in the shell-searching-activity!

After the kids had finished their pool session, Malte was gone. He had decided to get back in againg all dressed! Having water around you really have to watch him!

Uncle Niels and Lotte. Mariska was there, too but somehow she didn´t make it on any photo.

We also visited our friends - the Van der Haas family. Isabella and Hilde.

Snow White Hilde.

Daniel and Malte. They had enough balls to play with.

Vivian, taking care of the lovely dinner we had.

Sage with garlic in olive oil. Yummie!

Some fruit.

Angela and Lotte.

At the playground.

Together on the seesaw.

Grandma Trees joined us to the playground.

Grandpa walking with Malte.

Remco and I enjoyed a weekend without the kids in Maastricht. We loved the time together. André Rieu was in town (actually his home town), too, for 5 evening concerts. Everywhere were big screens to watch the concerts. No chance to leave this city that weekend without getting to know that André Rieu has been there.

On sunday we had a walk together before my in laws brought the kids to Maastricht. They had tickets for the evening concert of André Rieu.

One thing is for sure:

There need to be more weekends without taking the kids even though that we love them from the bottom of our hearts.

Not unimportant: I left Malte on friday at my in-laws non-walking and we got him back on sunday walking.