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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.

Ow yeah, she’s back!!! Not for long, because she is going to New Zealand. Enough time though to show her my brotherly supremacy.

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.

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.