Mum, the plant you gave me turned out really well you see. It has pretty flowers now.
To mom
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From dad
Family love
You have seen what my family does to me on my blog. My oldest sister made it up to me.
Holidays
So my first Christmas holiday was a right out hit. Why? Well, I think because it’s different when I celebrate it with my parents. First of all there is nothing related to Christmas. No tree, no annoying music and not the obligatory nice clothes. And secondly there is the way we celebrate Christmas or rather the way we have a nice weekend.
In the morning I gorged myself at breakfast, because everything was so tasteful. To get rid of the excess calories we did a two hour hike and two hours of heavy gardening. Soon I found out I lost too much calories so I made a bouillabaisse as a starter for dinner. My mother prepared a cow tongue, which people find weird. I don’t actually mind people thinking this is weird, because this leaves a lot more for me to eat. You might be grossed out, but you’ll never find a more succulent and tender kind of meat.
Soon I found out that I overate and therefore gained more than my desired amount of carbohydrates, leaving me with this inflated feeling. The only proper way to get rid of it is through a game of Yahtzee. Having the world champion in the family means I play to get better with my dad.
Big sister
Big sister came by to check out my new crib. She stayed for dinner. I decided to make something really good so she wouldn’t make fun of me anymore on my own blog. Let’s see how that goes.
Liklik susa
Ow yeah, she’s back!!! Not for long, because she is going to New Zealand. Enough time though to show her my brotherly supremacy.
The grey university
Last weekend (yeah, I did not find time to post sooner) I went hiking with my parents. My parents have a group of friends they tend to spend time with. Not surprisingly they are all respectably grey. Being the Benjamin of this group last Sunday was really nice. These people know so much about life and nature. And when being without story, stories are made up with great allure. This venerable group meets every last Sunday of the month to walk and one of them acts as a guide. The guide makes sure there is a route and a story.
Last Sunday afternoon was an exception as there was an external guide. The subject of the hike was Eugene Dubois. You might recognize him as the person who found the missing link (I never heard of him). He proved that Darwin was right with his evolution theory. Apparently he was übercool for that fact and it is really weird we Dutch don’t know him. Maybe because he was from Limburg or that he was without religion in a catholic region.
He owned an estate in Haelen (Netherlands) and experimented with a lot of things. The following picture is a bat tower that was supposed to attract bats who could keep his marshes free of mosquito’s.
Shocking revelation
While doing the dishes my dad decided to tell me something that shook the very ground I stood on (sorry Dutch). And I still don’t get it.