One of the perks of working for Capgemini is that they're not afraid to party. Events are always meticulously organized, so when we got an invitation for the TS Summer party (TS stands for Technology Services, our company division) the family was ready to go. Destination: Safari-park Beekse Bergen.

Although Nienke will still attend group 1 this year, as of today she will join group 2 in their Friday morning school program. Normally Nienke doesn't have school on Friday's.

I can still recall that I was jumping up-and-down only a few years ago in Meteren when it was announced that we would be able to get ADSL Internet. For the longest time we had to cope with a costly and slow dial-up connection as the rest of the Netherlands was enjoying fast Internet. That's what you get for living in a rural area. But the cards have turned. For living in a newly constructed neighborhood has its advantages: our new house had a glass-fiber connection from day one.

Since Jamie gave a presentation of fossils a couple of months ago in School, he very much kept asking us if we could go to Cadzand. According Internet sources, this would be the place to find fossilized shark teeth. So during the May vacation, we decided to take an overnight to Knokke, Belgium and visit the nearby beaches of Cadzand for old-fashion fossil hunting.

As Ange was off to see her friend Ines in Germany, the kids and I had the weekend to ourselves. The kids were in to go flying, and so was my aunt Appie.