Our Second Home - The Netherlands

We spent the month of April and most of May with Tonya, Patrick, Sam and Jake in Delft, Netherlands which included a quick five day trip to Barcelona. It is always great fun to visit Delft and we feel at home there. Yes, we do some tourist activities but most of the time it is about family. We particularly enjoy taking the kids to school and participating in after school activities like Tae Kwon Do, swimming, tennis and soccer. We share these responsibilities with their wonderful au pair, Lara. I have loved learning how to cook some new dinners with Lara. She comes from Sao Paulo, Brazil. We feel very lucky to have family in such a beautiful place in Europe and no doubt we will spend more time there now that we are both retired. Barcelona Our family is really interested in tennis and have been following the career of Milo's Raonic from Canada. Since he was playing in the Barcelona Open we decided a trip to that city was in order. You cannot go wrong with Barcelona tennis or no tennis. It is a world class city made famous by Gaudi's architecture. We walked all around the city and were at the Barcelona Open for 3 days. The five days that we were there were busy - 12 to 14 hours each day. There is so much to see and there was so much left undone so we will return someday. Back to the Netherlands After our return we looked forward to the arrival of Doug's sister, Jane. She came on May 19 and we loved giving her an orientation on her first visit here. We all left for Croatia on May 23 and our next entry will be from there.