Our last day in the Netherlands!

Good morning! It's 7:30 am here, 10:30 pm back home of the day before! Marie, I'm sorry to hear it's so HOT in your house. 38 C is way too hot. I don't know what it is here, I think it's around 30 C but that's hot enough for me. We slept with the windows open. You wouldn't believe the noise from the street! A bus goes past every 3 minutes, but between midnight and 6 am it's quiet. When the noise started up again an hour ago I had to get up. Plus it's really stuffy in our room, even with the fan on and 2 windows wide open. However I am not complaining as it sounds worse in BC! Ashley what does it feel like being 13? Someone called us last evening around 9:30 when I was washing, already in my nightie. Our kind host has to come up 3 doors from his house, and shout from the bottom of the stairs to let us know we have a call coming through. By the time Robert put his clothes on and hastened down the steep steps, the caller had hung up. Wah! We hope it wasn't important. PAUL, might it have been you? We hope all is well back home. When I try to get to sleep at night, I review what we've done the past 12 days here. It's been a lot! This has been just like a happy dream and I'm so glad we were able to come here at last. We've talked about it for 10 years. I'll write another post as it's easier to read in short chunks. My men are sound asleep.