Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Last Month

On our last day in Luxembourg, we walked the boys back to school in the afternoon one last time as a family  Then, Ingrid and I ran errands with Ben to the bank, the dump, and Cactus Hobbi to find a needle so we could deflate Otto’s soccer balls before the flight back home. 

We picked up the boys from school one last time. I cried and took lots of pictures. It was a really hard afternoon. It was really hard to say goodbye. We went home and ate dinner and then I took Aksel and Ingrid to the park while Ben and Otto finished packing. Once we were ready to go, we closed all of the blinds and said one last family prayer in the family room and drove to the IBIS hotel across the street from the airport. 

The kids watched the show Heidi for a few minutes and then we did bedtimes. I laid down with the kids and we were all asleep by 7:30 pm. Ben left to go meet Russ and Nate back at our house to shuttle all of our luggage to the airport for a night-before check-in, only to learn KLM doesn’t allow it. 

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Last Hurrah


Last weekend, we drove 3.5 hours to the Netherlands to see the windmills of Kinderdijk.

Kinderdijk sits in what's called a polder -- a low-lying tract of land enclosed by dikes. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands.