Sunday, August 11

Tomorrow is a traveling day for Dan and Sue, They must return to the States. So, we stayed around the house so final washing and packing could take place. It was also Sunday, and no stores were open anyway. Linda cooked an egg dish for Dan and her, I had a bowl of cereal, and Sue had some of the egg and finished her bagels that she bought in Delft. How about that? Bagels in a rather small Dutch town. We also see Subway shops in many of the towns.

We read and talked and just hung out. During most of the afternoon, sitting in the living room, two flies, one large that we initially thought was a bee and a smaller one kept buzzing around us. Dan listened to them and realized that the note of the smaller buzz was the root of  the chord and the larger one's buzz was a 5th above. Our music teacher. Therefore, they were serenading us.

Dinner was made of the food we purchased yesterday: chicken breasts and pork, both wrapped in bacon, lamb logs, peppers and mushrooms, and rice. We had a little cocktail time before dinner with wine, sausages, cornichons (baby dills) and olives stuffed with almonds. We thought it was garlic, but it was almonds.

We had the neighbors over later for a little visit and wine, coffee, and tea. Dan spent a long time talking to Hans about fossils and other things. Hans brought over a book explaining some of the rocks. Afterwards, Hans and Jose took Dan and Sue down to their house for Sue to see the very extensive fossil collection. I spent a good portion of the evening talking to Margaret and Andy (we're not sure what to call him) about living in Canada. They met and lived in Vancover and British Columbia in the early 60's and have two boys who were born there. In 1958, Andy left Holland on a boat for Halifax. Then he took a train to Montreal and found some work. Eventually, he saved enough money to take the train west with a friend and he ended up building bridges for the Canadian railway system.

Linda spent a good deal of time talking to Jose about auras and chakras. Jose had a necklace on made of the colors of the Yoga chakras. That got Linda talking about energy and Jose seemed interested to learn.

Hans and Jose want to take us somewhere for the day, but we are going to wait until Janie and Dan arrive on Thursday - probably a tour of Utrecht or a boat ride down the canal toward Spakenburg. Any of that will be really nice.

It was a good little party.