Sjoerd meets celebrities...

Everyone one wanted to be on a picture with Sjoerd!:



This morning Sjoerd en Gerdine left to Holland, they arrived safely at Schiphol Airport and at the moment they walk around somewhere in The Netherlands. Probably there is not that much staring at him(tall guy) as in England.
Sjoerd probably took a picture of the Queen of England(We still need to blow up his pictures to prove it) and he met Postman Pat.
We enjoyed their stay very much!

Down here a few pictures of Sjoerd and Gerdine's visit to Gloucester and London:
Click at the picture for a bigger picture(and a chance to see the Queen)

Bey Bey

Visitors...

Yesterday Sjoerd and Gerdine arrived.
Drinking coke and eating pringels we catched up.
Today Sjoerd and Gerdine explored Gloucester.
Of course they checked out the athedral, the local pub and the historic dogs ehhh.. docks. Thomas, Leon and Naomi where ill and at home, but they where treated with some nice presents!
Thursday and Friday Sjoerd and Gerdine are visiting London.

Happy Birthday...

HURAY!

Today is Anoek's Birthday. 10 years old already!

This morning we woke her up by singing happy birthday and we put the'Birthday Princess' button on her.
We gave her some presents and then we were of to school.
Celebrating a birthday in an English school is different, but Anoek liked it. The children in her class song Happy Birthday and Anoek received a nice present from her friend Gloey.
This afternoon we enjoyed the home baked birthday-cake

This afternoon we got a real dutch pie from our 'Homefrontcommitee'

plus a nice book to read in every day.

Thomas became a real schoolcounseler today:
He had to say 'I promise' and then he got his schoolcounselor badge on.

One for all...

We enjoy our visitors!
Yesterday we went to Wales. Stefan wish was to go to a castle.
But most castles are only open in the summer.
We where happy to found a nice castle/ruine in chepstow. We drove there trough the hills and had a good time.

On wednesday we visited the ASDA :)
While we visited the Cathedral, Mintje was ill and in bed.
The weather is good. Krijn and Anneleen explored Gloucester.
The kids played in the garden.

Few pictures of chepstow castle:

Easy Jet...

Mother sits behind teh 15th window and Anneleen and Krijn you can see behind window 16 (smoke)!

Yesterday and today we worked hard on our essays, so we can have a relaxed time with our visitores. Monday Sijmen and Annelies baked some pancakes for us, so we had more time to work! We had a great time and we hope that Sijmen and Annelies will get a good rest now :)
Mum, Anneleen and Krijn just arrived. For Mum and my sister is was their first flight (brave heroes) They had a good flight, but the bus in Bristol stopped working. Better a bus that stops working than a plane...

Rain...

A small update from Gloucester, to get a picture how things were here around Gloucestershire you can watch the small film:

The Dutch where not impressed but nevertheless the schools where closed, Except for Redcliffe of course. At this moment the rain beats the snow.
Today Thomas received a Kingsholm Star. Thanks to Sijmen and Annelies we could make a few pictures! Harmen Squirrels rugby movie is still under construction, so a little more patience.. Thomas and Anoek found themselves in the Thursday newspaper. It was a picture taken at the rugby game Saturday!

More snow...

Today Leon, Anoek, Thomas and Stefan have a day off school. The schools are closed due to the snow. In England and in this area they don't experience this amounts of snow regularly! (Once in 20 years)
We will post some pictures later on :) Here they are:




Photo's : The Groetjes family and the last two:Redcliffe's website