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December 17, 2003
A Little Hasitha!!!
Yesterday I got an email from Hasitha announcing the birth of little Kieren Venuraka on December 10th. Kieran was 48cm and 2.630 KG and both he and Dilini are doing well. He looks gorgeous in the photos Hasitha sent, one of which is here.
There's nothing we 'people-with-babies' like more than seeing more 'people-with-babies'!! Congratulations Hasitha and Dilini. Another vriendje for Jacob!
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December 16, 2003
Parcel paradise
No sooner have the presents-for-the-baby parcels stopped coming but the christmas-parcels start! Its parcel paradise in the Dusartstraat!
Our welcome home from Terschelling was effected with a parcel full of Christmas goodies from Annette. Well, we assume it is, as of course we haven't opened it but placed it under this year's non-existent tree.
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December 09, 2003
terschelling
This weekend was the annual visit to Terschelling, with a few small changes. Not least amongst them was Jacob. (Who bought that baby with them?) For Jacob it was a big weekend, his first time away from home,
his first time on a boat, his first time on a bus, first time in a taxi and first time in a kidcar. Not to mention first time in the Walvis Cafe! So predictably, there was also the first tantrum. Overall though he proved himself once again, the easiest, sweetest, most adorable baby ever, and the most gezellig! Not that we ever doubted it!
Despite the awful weather we did get one chance to use the kidcar with the bikes we had hired. Which was a good thing as we'd spent €30 to hire the damn thing for the weekend. Jacob seemed quite happy hurtling along in his little tent behind Ron and Vincent in turn. Just a shame we didn't get to use it more often!
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December 05, 2003
De Sint
Friday the 5th December seemed like a good chance to kick off the Pub Crawl again with Sint Niklaus visiting our local kroeg, De Tapperij.
Jacob was invested as a new member of the jury, uncle Ben attended as international guest juror and the Sint put in a sterling performance.
Lots of oompy-poompy music, scores of Black Piets and a couple of beers later we felt that we'd achieved quite a bit. Jacob's Dutch cultural education was well under way, the visiting foreigner had been awed with gezelligheid and our duty was done for another year.
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December 01, 2003
rivierenburt
Our first year in Amsterdam we lived in the Rivierenbuurt, on the Rijnstraat, just one of many streets named after rivers. The area was built as the initial stages of the "Plan Zuid" and amonsgt other charms has many nice examples of the Amsterdam School of architecure and planning, especially Berlage and De Klerk.
You can also see some of the area, past and present, in this online tour based on "De Zuidelijke Wandelweg".
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