More Photos

Here are some more photos of the house in Cary.

The Front of the house

Back of the House

Back and the Screened in Porch

Cary House

As some of you may know, our house in Cary was completely destroyed. There was a leak that poured running water into our house for an estimated 2 weeks! The whole house was very wet! Awhile ago Mommy visited NC to pick out toilets, tiles, toilet paper holders, that kinda stuff. Just this week Daddy visited to see the house and make sure that everything was going well. Here are some photos. 

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The kitchen - big fridge and bar

The beautiful Screened in Porch - I really miss this room.

Sink in the Master Bathroom - The whole Master bathroom was redone

The shower in the master bedroom

The living room. Parts o the wooden floor had to be redone. Look at that beautiful A Frame!!

May Fools!

Only joking!! There was a falcon in David and Andrew's driveway. A pigeon had been killed and this falcon came to eat the body!!

Wild Life Photography

A while ago Mommy and Ashlynn were on their way to school when they saw a bird. They were going through a forest, absolutely beautiful and on the path there was a falcon! In Holland!! 

Mommy played the photographer and took loads of photos. Here they are.

 

Glow Golf

On Ashlynn's real birthday we went into Den Haag. Our first idea was to have a sushi lunch then go see a movie, but there weren't any good movies playing. Then we decided to go eat-all-you-can-eat sushi and then go play mini golf - inside! The sushi was great and Ashlynn and I out ate Mommy and Daddy. Yummy!!
In Scheveningen there is an awesome mini golf course. Everything was florescent. It was so cool. The theme was pirates and under the sea. If we had known we would have worn white clothes, but we weren't prepared and were all wearing fairly dark clothes. Oh well. It was really fun.

Ashlynn and a pirate

Posing with a mermaid. In the middle is my ball.

Ashlynn's B-Day Party

On the day before Ashlynn's real birthday, the 16th of May, we had a birthday party at our house. Ashlynn had invited some of her friends and David and Andrew came along too. In total there were 11 kids and 11 adults. I had CYM, (Center for Young Musicians) so I didn't get back to the house till around 5:30. All of Ashlynn's friends were there and although David, Andrew and I tried to set up a frisbee game in the nearby park, it didn't really work out that well. Dinner was a bar-b-que. Ashlynn had made Ice - Cream cake for desert. It was sooooo good.

Ashlynn with her friends, Ella and Ellie

Ice Cream Cake - YUM

Hedgehogs are Back!

As you already know, the hedgehogs are back. We set up Hedge - Alert and were surprised that they came back on the first night that we'd put peanut butter out. The first Hedgehog we saw was Hedgy. He's grown (I think). Ashlynn and I each had a friend over for the night and so they got to pet Hedgy. He's so cute.

Every night I put out the peanut butter (we decided that they don't really like bread) and set up Hedge - Alert. In the morning we see if any have come. Usually there are at least 2 or 3 visits per night. WE LOVE OUR HEDGEHOGS!

Garden = Farm

Our Garden was turned into a little farm a little while ago. On Wednesday night we saw our first hedgehog!! It was Hedgy! We have turned on Hedge Alert. To find out more about our hedgehogs go to www.hedgealert.blogspot.com. We also had a duck couple staying in our yard! I hoped that they made a nest nearby. 

As well as that we have a bunny living nearby. She doesn't look wild; she is well groomed. Having hedgehogs is a good thing (they eat slugs), but having a bunny is not so great. She is digging in our garden, she dug up some of our mint and ate one of our radishes! Oh well.

Red Dress Hash

Once again we did the red dress run with the Hash, where we run through the center of town and act like complete bozozs. This year a couple got interviewed on the Dutch TV. Funny!!

Us posing in front of the Queen's working palace

Prize Giving

The night after Shakespeare Shorts was another late night for Ashlynn and I. It was the Year 8, 9, and 10 Prize Giving. I had won an award for 'Outstanding Achievements' . It was quite a nice ceremony and the guest speaker was funny. I won a Thesaurus!!? (A bit weird eh?) It's a coincidence because David got the same prize as I did, except for he got it for Y9. Well, anyway. The exams are mostly over. I only have my French writing to do. I got good marks for every thing - Outstanding Achievements!!? 

Our Underwear (Oops, I mean shorts!!)

Over the last few months a few of my friends and I worked on a short part from one of Shakespeare's plays, Twelfth Night. We choose the scene where Sir Toby and Fabien try to convince Viola/Cesario that Sir Andrew is a great fighter and try to convince Sir Andrew that Cesario is also. It is was funny.

Lily played Viola (A girl dressed as a boy)
Ma'ayan played Fabien - She dressed up as a Biker Dudess
I played Sir Toby - I was a Hippie!

Me trying to convince Kelly (Sir Andrew) that Viola was a horrible fighter.

Ma'ayan and I laughing at Lili.

Kelly played Sir Andrew - She was a Punk!

The Sword fight at the end of the scene was funny.

Shakespeare Shorts

On the evening of the 26th it was Shakespeare Shorts. Kids from any year group could decide if they wanted to put together a small sketch of about 5 minutes. It was a great evening, but as I'd already seen all of the sketches 2 times (in the rehearsals) it was a bit repetitive. It was held in the Marque that was set up on the grounds of our school. It started pretty early, so the lighting was almost all natural. 

Shakespeare's Knickers!

My English teacher (on the right) did a Hilarious sketch with another Drama teacher. 

The witches from McBeth. 

More Flower Floats

Here are a few photos of more floats....

The Venice Float was very cute 

Mermaids. Another one of my fav. floats. 

La Moulin Rouge!
Can! Can! Can you do the Can Can?

Flaminco Dancing

Neptune, the god of the sea

Bloemen Parade

On Saturday the 24th we joined some of our friends and went to Noordwijk to see a flower parade. The floats were all really pretty. There were also loads of cars that had flowers on them. 

Dutch windmill

Dutch Cow

The front of the Viking float

The Viking Ship was adorable

Exams!!

To the tune of 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'

'It's the most horrible time, of the year.

All the teachers are bossy,

The test papers glossy,

Oh my, oh dear!

It's the most horrible time, when exams are here!!'

So far, they haven't been too bad. Today I have a DT (Design Technology) exam and a music exam.

Wish me luck!!!

You are rocking!

Above the trees, you may be able to see a small blue speck. That is Ashlynn!

After we had all climbed the first rock two times we went to another place. It was much higher up, but we didn't climb that much further. It was really fun! The rocks were both so different, but I found that they were both the same difficulty. I hope that we will be able to go real rock climbing again soon. 

Let's Rock!

While we were in Ronda we found out that our trip to Morocco, which was scheduled on Friday, had to be changed to Thursday. This came as a little problem, Daddy was going to take Ashlynn and I to go rock climbing on Thursday. He managed to change the date, so after having around 6 hours of sleep (we had the long boat ride the night before), we got up to go rock climbing on real rocks.

We met our instructor. She was really funny. We followed her up some off road tracks and then walked to the rock that we would be climbing. It was protected from the wind, which was very good. I started with the instructor helping me, telling me where to go. It was really fun!

Daddy belaying us