Guten Tag......

or 'hallo'.......if we could choose to go and live in another country it would be Holland.....hands down!! (OK I know that 'Guten Tag' is German......but that's seems much more exciting for a title than 'hallo'.....which could easily be a typo)........

I can just imagine us riding our bikes around the beautiful landscape of Holland.......singing like the vantrap family......while ZAHN skips around wearing shorts pulled up too high with braces and clogs, yodelae-he-ho-ing as he goes.....(classic image)......

So seeing as we so 'desperately' (i hate to use that word but it's true) want to take the kids overseas for a couple of years, we thought we'd pretend that we were jet setting off somewhere amazing and had a 'culture day' of sorts.......and went to Holland.....

did I say Holland......in our dreams......i mean, we went to the "Holland House".......right here in sydney....

It was this quaint looking building in the middle of 'nowhere' (completely bizarre) with a dutch shop in front, walk through area to this endearing little cafe that was SO cluttered with clogs and flags and lamps and fake flowers......just how I imagine it would really look.....and then a walk through area to a giant warehouse full of dutch souvenirs (like I said completely bizarre for a little suburb in Sydney......

So we did a little shopping, pretended we could understand dutch when the lady in the cafe assumed chad could speak her lingo (what a spunk).......



i know the photo looks a bit random.....it was just outside 'the house'......but did i already say.....what a spunk????

'ordered some 'kroket' which the kids loved......dank u wel'.....

talked about 'all things Holland' and the things Chad did while he was over there last year (for 6 ridiculously long weeks), spoke some more dutch with the lady.....



and tried some more cuisine.....



Rylan not loving it.......



Zahn 'praising' the heavens because he loved it sooo much.......(pretty much pure sugar)........

and all this followed by a dutch dinner, al-la-carte Chad style.......(this was a meal he had with a few families while he was over there)......the chips and mayo were delish!!



So here's to 'culture' days and happy brothers that only fought in the car for a portion of the way there and the way home.......ahhhh sigh.....one day it will be for real!!!!!