Adoption

Our neighbors have adopted 2 Chinese girls. Their dutch names are Juul and Nanne. Juul is now 5 and came about 2 yrs ago and Nanne is 4 and they picked her up 2 months ago.
Especially during the summer (with our gardens attached to each other) Juul is over at our place a lot too and Caroline saw from nearby when Nanne arrived.
She asked me why people adopt.

There are a lot of reasons i said.
Maybe they think there are enough children already in the world and they want to make a child happy that is here but has no parents.
Or maybe they cannot make children themselves.

Don't you just think they find it too gross to make them she said?

Had to admit, didn't think about that one.

I proudly present one of the champs of waterpolo.....

So after our bike ride, we rushed to Dordrecht where Morten had to play and then back to Rotterdam where his team was being honoured. I guess the photo's will speak for itself.

The Betuwse Blossom bike ride

This morning we all packed up early and left for a 30 km (almost 19 mile) bike ride through 'the Betuwe' the area in mid Netherlands where our fruit comes from.
It was a beautiful day and i enjoyed the typical Dutch landscape immensely. So different from our daily city life.
Set the date for next year; April 23 and ride with us!

Opera days Rotterdam

A couple of months ago I read about the Opera days in Rotterdam. About 10 days at the end of May, beginning of June where the theatres show all sorts of opera's, you can do an opera workshop, follow an online opera course AND *drum rolls*....
receive an opera singer at home for a house concert. If you click here you sort of get the feeling although it is in Dutch.

How cool is that!

of course I applied, but because i don't have a piano (nor exactly the room to hire and place one, i mean this is supposed to be 'just fun') i didn't think much of it.

I just got a call.
if i minded if i were to get some musical singers, coz they could bring along a tape and not need a piano.

Hell no!
although from opera to musical seem far stretched, but apparently the term opera stands for anything between Verdi and musical non western street theater.
Allright!

I am so excited.
I am going to invite all my friends and the whole neighborhood and Robbert will be making hors d'oevres and it will be sunny and we will be drinking chilled rosé wine.

Vette shit :P