Seganti!

There was not a very promising start of this weekend...
Friday morning Maarten locked us up (me and him) in the garage when I went to grab some potatoes for the soup. This is a Maartens game/joke since a few weeks already.
GRRRRRR! Usually I carry my keys all the time to avoid situation like this. But not this Friday morning :-( There was no way out so we had to stay there for at least two hours because Rob went out to do some shopping...

Since we had to say goodbye to Oma Suze and Aunt Lia last Tuesday the house was ready for another family visit.
Even now it’s still hard to believe but this weekend we enjoyed the company of (only a small) part of my extensive American family. After 13 years!
Uncle Jim and a friend Boz came from their ski vacations at the Lake Tahoe.
And Uncle Harry and Aunt Lynn drove all the 500 miles (804,5 km) from their home in Chula Vista!
We had a wonderful time together sitting at the porch looking at old family pictures, talking about our ancestors and of course a lot of laughing. Maarten was so excited and he did his best to ‘participate’ in all our discussions. First name he learned was ‘Boz’. He kept following Boz the whole weekend with ‘Hi Boz!’. He also tried to keep up with the laugh of his uncles Jim and Harry and he did pretty well.
His very favorite was Aunt Lynn. He followed her everywhere even in the morning he couldn’t wait when she’ll wake up.
I was a little bit concerned about Maarten because he had a cold since Friday. Fortunately he was cheerful not complaining about anything. We could even have dinner out in Dublin and he loved it.
Also on Saturday after Maartens afternoon nap we went by BART (the Bay Area metro) to San Francisco. We took the cable car to the China town to have dinner at a favorite Bozes restaurant (Great Eastern at Jackson St.). It really was delicious!
The Chinese dragons and music in the streets were great. Maarten carried by Uncle Jim all the time was having so much fun in the night SF streets.
Sunday was the day to say good bye. The house felt pretty quiet and empty when they were gone. Maarten is still asking and looking for them. He already misses them and he is not the only one. Let’s hope we all get together soon again.

PS: Sunday afternoon: splashing in the ‘Frog pool’ makes the warmth more pleasant (around 76 F/25 C this weekend)