Over 3 years of blogging…

Today I have the house all to myself… woohoo! There’s only half an hour left of it and don’t ask my why but I decided to write my blog in this last half hour. I looked back at the posts I wrote earlier and I realized I started this blog in April 2006! What I love about it most that it is really a timeline… how the boys have grown!! They both go back to school next week but I remember so well when I first took the oldest to school, after the summer in 2006! Now he’s going to 4th grade! And my little baby will start in 2nd grade next week!

These are 2 of my fav pictures of the summer of 2009… Last month we were on the island on Crete and both of the pictures were taken in the Star Beach waterpark. The boys love the waterpark (the kids part :) and it is not very far from where we usually stay… I say usually because that’s what it looks like now, it was already our 3rd stay in Malia (and my 4th)!

From next week everything will be back to ‘normal’ again… school, swimmingclasses, work… we will look forward to our next trips (Belgium and of course Florida!), to Sinterklaas, Christmas, New Year… We will not so much look forward to fall and wintertime! But every season has it’s charm so we will get there in the end!

Back from Greece… our new ‘baby’…

Yes we are back in town…! We have had 11 wonderful days on the island of Crete, in Malia.

Even though we always preferred to travel to different places each year I visited this village for the 4th time! Ten years ago I first visited Malia in the fall with my friend Petrina, where we had a blast with the ex-Orange soccer players. We met them there because they had to play  against the former Greek national team back then. Later when Mauro was just under one we returned to Malia and then last year when we also had a blog about our trip.

This year we didn’t have a lot planned for the summer… we already had our superb trip to Florida (blog here) and we already booked to go back to Floriday in May 2010. So we had no plans to spend a lot on an expensive vacation abroad but when we saw the offer on Lastminute and we still had the discount of the flight tax from our last trip… we booked Meropi again, just like last year! We left Schiphol Airport on July 23rd at 5.00 am sharp with the Transavia airplane. Here’s a photo impression of our trip!

Now we have been back almost a week and still had time off work and school but from tomorrow I will be back to work … the boys still have 2 weeks of their summer break left.

Speaking about work… my new ‘baby’ is here! I picked up our new (company) car last Friday morning and I LOVE it….

 

Although the QQ is quite common on the streets here, I rarely spotted the QQ+2 (7 seater)… It’s so comfortable to drive that I can’t wait to get some miles on these wheels!!

That’s all for now, have a great week!!

Karen