And we are here. After 3 and a half hours of train trips and sleeping in a hotel and watch Spain win the European Cup, not germany, Spain!!!!!, we are here. It was quite a long trip. This is not going to be a long post because we are in St. Jean right now and we are about to start hiking. I am just going to say that we are all doing well here, and we met up with mrs. Ewald and her niece on the train. It was pretty cool. The weather is cloudy but stil around 18 degrees. Our first hike is only 10km, but it is really steep, so it will take a while. Mrs. Ewald is wonderful to travel with.....so far.....since we've only been together for less than an hour!!!!! So, we are about to start the hike, I shall write again as soon as possible. I hope you are all having a good summer. Have a good one!!!!!!
-Jakob
Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
First day full of new things.
Hello all and thank you for reading all these posts that I have put up, I apreciate that you comment on them, I will try to put a knew one up everyday, but not promising anything.
Well today, and yesterday I guess, where very eventful days. I will start with friday. I got up at around 10 o'clock and just hung around Vanbeelan's house until 2:30. Vanbeelans took us to the airport because they had to pick up some people coming from holland. So dad and I said our good byes and we were off. We were hoping there would be no delays but as we walked up the stairs we looked at our flight info and it said "Air Transat to Amsterdam Flight 850 delayed, departure 22:30". Our origonal departure time was 20:30. Well dad said, we may as well look around for a bit. So we did, we spent the next 7 hours watching planes and eating food and walking around watching people and laughing at them. We also sat outside the international terminal and listened to all the different people with all there different languages. It was quite fun. Anyways, after many hours of waiting we went to go find out terminal. It was D70, there was alot of people there waiting for the plane to be bored also, and guess what, they were all dutch. I could not stop laughing at them because I am so used to my parents and my cousins talking dutch, but not anyone else, it was pretty funny.
We got on the plane, and we were off. I learned a few things on this flight. When you try to comunicate with a old dutch lady that doesn't know much english, speak really slooooowwww, or just try piece together some dutch. Also, when someone dutch talks to you really fast, just nod your head and say "Yes". Also you know how movies portray clouds being fluffy and able to land on, that is not true, you just go right through them, of course I knew that already. Flying into the Netherlands was awesome, because it was light and you could see everything, I saw tones of big ships, and other airplanes, it was very cool.
Well, other than Eilko picking us up and driving from one side of holland to the other in 2 hours, that was pretty much it for the first day of our trip.
Again I thank you all for reading this, I will try keep it updated regularily.
Tomorrow we fly with Air Berlin to Bilboa, Spain, and we go to our destination, we hope and pray that everything will go well.
Anyways, I wish you all a good day, well a good night for me, and I shall post soon I hope.
-Jakob
Well today, and yesterday I guess, where very eventful days. I will start with friday. I got up at around 10 o'clock and just hung around Vanbeelan's house until 2:30. Vanbeelans took us to the airport because they had to pick up some people coming from holland. So dad and I said our good byes and we were off. We were hoping there would be no delays but as we walked up the stairs we looked at our flight info and it said "Air Transat to Amsterdam Flight 850 delayed, departure 22:30". Our origonal departure time was 20:30. Well dad said, we may as well look around for a bit. So we did, we spent the next 7 hours watching planes and eating food and walking around watching people and laughing at them. We also sat outside the international terminal and listened to all the different people with all there different languages. It was quite fun. Anyways, after many hours of waiting we went to go find out terminal. It was D70, there was alot of people there waiting for the plane to be bored also, and guess what, they were all dutch. I could not stop laughing at them because I am so used to my parents and my cousins talking dutch, but not anyone else, it was pretty funny.
We got on the plane, and we were off. I learned a few things on this flight. When you try to comunicate with a old dutch lady that doesn't know much english, speak really slooooowwww, or just try piece together some dutch. Also, when someone dutch talks to you really fast, just nod your head and say "Yes". Also you know how movies portray clouds being fluffy and able to land on, that is not true, you just go right through them, of course I knew that already. Flying into the Netherlands was awesome, because it was light and you could see everything, I saw tones of big ships, and other airplanes, it was very cool.
Well, other than Eilko picking us up and driving from one side of holland to the other in 2 hours, that was pretty much it for the first day of our trip.
Again I thank you all for reading this, I will try keep it updated regularily.
Tomorrow we fly with Air Berlin to Bilboa, Spain, and we go to our destination, we hope and pray that everything will go well.
Anyways, I wish you all a good day, well a good night for me, and I shall post soon I hope.
-Jakob
Friday, June 27, 2008
We're OFF
Yes, we are gone. Well, still in Canada, but not for long. Yesterday my dad and I woke up at around 5:00, we were out of the house by 5:45. We travelled for a long 12 hours and made it here to Langely. We visited Mom's grandma Truus and we ate dinner at Earls, dad had a big sandwich and I had chicken casadias. After dinner and visiting, we found Henk Van Beelen's house. We waited there till they came home and then chated for a while with them. Then we went to bed. Today we are currently waiting for tonight when our plane arrives at the Vancouver Airport. It is scheduled to arrive at 8:50. Anyways, I shall hopefully write again when I arrive in Holland.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
ALMOST!!!
8 days, and we are out of here. My dad and I are both super exicted. We have every thing that we need, all the travelling is in order, all we need to do now is leave. I shall write again in here when we are gone, probably in Amsterdam or Spain some where.
Thank you all for reading.
Thank you all for reading.
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