Can you imagine hosting 4 house guests for several days with a forecast like this? And what if one of those guests lost her suitcase en route to your place...so she was without any of her basic necessities? And what if a few of you and a few of them were a little sick. Wouldn't you expect all of that to be a recipe for disaster?
Well...if the guests had been anyone else in the world, it may have really sucked. But Mwaz, Kwaz, and I spent a fabulous chunk of the past week exploring Amsterdam by bike with 4 young kids...in the pouring rain...and it was so much fun. Team Waz and their kids have such positive dispositions and happily rolled with the (awful) weather and the bike life...and we had a blast.
We took lots of breaks for ice cream...to remind ourselves it is August and we are all on summer vacation...
AWaz introduced my crew to a Dutch tradition - hagelslag for breakfast
It wasn't merely a drizzle...it was straight up downpour...so we played football in the park...
We ate lots of pizza...
And even a bit of teeny bit of sunshine
We managed to score a rain-free and kid-free night on the town!
While out on the town we went to town on this Blauw rijstaffel situation...
We put everyone in rain paints and hit the playground scene, every single day...
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Oh my gosh this post makes me so happy! It is really amazing how much fun we all had. It really could've sucked. I would've liked clean underwear, but despite everything we had going against us, we had a lot going for us too. Kids that got along, the fact that your clothes fit me, peeks of sunshine and blue skies along the way that we appreciated even more than we might have otherwise...
Aaron and Nathan decided this morning that they would really like Winter and Penelope to live next door to them. They don't care where - they are willing to live in Amsterdam for a year, or Portland, or wherever. I'll have to work on that. :-)
"You have a tutu, right?" That one still cracks me up. And "I really wish I had a better dinner". Love.
Thank you SO much for everything! For showing us around, for the bikes, and the food, and the clothes to borrow, and the beds, and everything. It was really amazing to connect, and we will definitely make it happen again. In Amsterdam or Portland or the mountains in France. Wherever. :-)
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