GRRRRRRR

Still trying to work with photos but seemingly no success. So try this (again). Sorry.

Giving this a try

This is a test for photo loading

Report for Monday (morning)

Our adventures continue, of course.  Friday evening we joined four other gals for dinner at a local Tapas bar.  Yummy and so nicely presented.  Well I'm trying to just use the tablet this time and I can't find the photos I have downloaded.   GRRRRRR

For now suffice to say, six of us went to Tabasco Tapas Bar and had a great supper.  Elaine had first a dish that was something like a stew meat on a tortilla and I had Mustard soup (yes, mustard).  Really tasty.  Others had quiche and fondue.  Round two included spare ribs, and three more fondues.  Sme so the group (not moi) had a flour less chocolate cake for dessert.  Of course this included all the appropriate beverages.  :-). Saturday dawned very bright and cold.  We headed to the tram to get to the train station and head north to Sassenheim.  There we met and visited with Piet Nicola and his family (and about 40 guests).  Coffee,snacks and visiting.  Then rolls with cheese or ham, cups of warm mushroom soup and beverages.  Then it was time for the Bloemencorso, aka the flower parade.  Very fun indeed.  The floats were close enough to touch.  Because the weather has been cold here the flowers are late and most had to be imported from France.  (Think e Rose parade here, just on a smaller scale). After the parade we were invited to hop into a 1934 Packard in which we drove through the flower fields (think LaConner) and ended up in Noordwijk, on the North Sea.  All the vintage cars were parked there for folks to ooh and aaah.  We eventually made our way back to The Hague.  Of course a girl needs to figure out dinner plans. . . .  So we joined Caro and Rob and her parents for dinner at one of our favorite places, De Mouce.   Yummy pork sate.  We walked to our home (about 10 blocks) and FELL into bed.  A busy, busy day.

Sunday was again lovely and cold.  We enjoyed a light Dutch lunch with Caro, Rob, and parents Simon and Reina and with aa fair amount of kafuffle left for a bicycle ride.  We headed through the Haagse Bo's and west to the coast.  We stopped (per tradition) about half way at Meyendell for coffee/tea and Appel gebaakt (dutch apple cake).  We cycled back to The Hague and all had dinner together.  Yummy, yummy Gourmetten.  Simon and Reina left for home and C & R and Mies walked us home.  What a fun day, but bed was calling to these out of practice cyclists.

Rob is my technical advisor, so I will ask him about the photo issues.  Sorry.  Today it is a train journey to Utrecht and probably Amsterdam on the way home.  Ain't we so lucky!

photos (at last)

Caro has let me use her computer which is easier to upload photos.  So here we go:

Just before our departure we had one last visit with our newest grand,

 

Caro and Rob picked us up from the airport and we spent our first night at their place.  Here you can see a bit of their place (a very comfortable home)\


 On Thursday, we moved to our new home for the next couple of weeks (1.1 km away)

(obviously, this was before Jose left for our house)  note the lovely art deco leaded glass. 

Caro and Rob joined us for supper

Friday included a requisite stop at the coffee shop

and a trip to the Haagse markt (farmer's market).  Photos to follow.

\photos from Elaine's camera:

(now it's not so warm at the markt)

Have a few olives.

Holy mackerel!

Fish and chips from the nearby take-out for lunch and a visit with Miss Mies

More adventures await us.  :-)

Friday notes

Haven't quite mastered photo transferring, but if you are checking here, we a. Have arrived, b. have moved into our apartment in The Hague, c. Had our first dinner guests last night and d. Are headed to The Hague. Public market this morning.  Life is good .  I will keep trying with the photos.

Test blog

Testing that I can blog using my tablet.

Well

Well it appears that it works.  

I forgot to say that we know superfluity raised more than $35000.   More to come from things taken to the auction.  Woo hoo!

Being a Tourist in your own Town

Karen Meyer is here visiting from Holland, Michigan.  So when you have out of town visitors, what do you do?  You visit the things you might not go to see or have not seen before.  Despite some less than stellar weather, we ventured to the Seattle Center and visited the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit, after a stop in the Collections Cafe for some lunch.

We can attest to tasty food and fun, funky decor.  The ceiling is filled with accordions:

Inset in each table is a glass topped box, each filled with a different collection:

Dale Chihuly (click this name for the website) is a northwest glass artist.  He is a glass blower and loves to experiment with color and lighting.  The collection is displayed 9 rooms, a 40' tall glasshouse and a garden exhibition.  Really, really impressive:

And then the weather gods smiled on us and the sun came out,

I was quite impressed and really enjoyed our adventure.

And, of course, being a fabric kind of gal, this was most appealing in his native northwest room:

Don't miss this.