Arriving for Thanksgiving

Mission Accomplished!

Thanksgiving - part 2

Moeke's muse and the finished bronze statue

Doing what us girls do best

No trip to the US would be complete without Spragues signature breakfast

Thanksgiving

It was great to be with the Cooks for Thanksgiving - it has to be one of the best celebrations because the focus is family and friends instead of gifts/material things.

Calm before the storm...

The usual suspects - part 1

The  usual suspects - part 2

... and the party gets going...

Chilling out after everyone had left.

Secret mission...

I had every intention of telling Gabi that I was coming over for Thanksgiving (I promise!) but when I called I got Alexander on the line I was promptly over ruled.  It was great fun being in cahoots with the kids and was even more impressed when they were all at the airport to pick up.

Welcoming committee!

Mission accomplished!

To do lists

As Thursday was a public holiday here, we decided to bridge Friday and head up to Holland for 4 days to help mom get her garden/house 'ready for winter/travels'.  I was impressed with Mom's 'to do' list until I realised that I was the one who had 'to do'!  Cleaning gutters, cleaning/putting the garden furniture in the shed, cleaning fly screens and putting them in the attic (Gabi the attic is still very neat and uncluttered....), applying for USA visas, storing terracotta pots in the shed (and Mom has LOADS of them...), turning off the garden taps so they don't freeze etc, etc, etc....  Gabi, I now know where Rebecca gets her 'list' thing from..... Mom has them plastered all over the place!

Where are the boys when you need them?

Against the odds, the wind and the rain (except for the last day), I still managed to get out every day for a run. 

Egmond an See @ 9am

Only mad dogs, Englishmen and me about at this hour!

Face frozen so couldn't smile

Mom's taxi service still operating as usual (10 min late!)

What a difference a week makes

Last week we had lovely warm weather so on Friday I was feeling rather silly having my tires changed to winter tires so early in the season.  Just as well I did cause this is what we woke up to this morning...

Autumn

Hi everyone.... not much to report from our side this week so I thought I would send you a few snaps of our afternoon stroll.  Autumn is at its peak now and we have been lucky to have wonderful warm weather so we decided to head up the hill behind us for a 3 hour walk.  Until next week.