Family Visit

What a crazy and eventful week. Amy and Lloyd visited and stayed in Amsterdam, where we went to eat dinner with them twice. They came for a day in The Hague (Den Haag), and we also went for an evening in Rotterdam. The first night was interesting when we took a turn into the red light district after dinner, in search of chocolate dipped waffles. The hague was a fairly normal day in the life, we went out for lunch on the canal and then rode bikes and walked around town. We also showed them the farm (next to our house) and went for a walk down the beach after a picnic in our apartment.

Thursday was the interesting one. Lloyd, Sara's step-father, is 6-8 and played professional basketball in the Netherlands in 1973-74, when their team won the championship. They organized a little reunion at the former center's house (Jan Loorbach). Mr. Loorbach was VERY tall, for one, and is currently the president of the Netherlands bar association, was the head of the Netherlands olympic committee, and has been an incredibly successful attorney here. He was great to meet, and all of the team was incredibly fun. They all spoke english for our benefit, and we had a great night of food, wine and deserts while perusing old news clippings of the teams sucess and picking Mr. Loorbach's brain. After a half hour train ride and a half hour bike ride to get home, we got to sleep around 1 and I had to be in court the next morning at 8:30. We woke up, worked all day, and hurried back to the train station at 5:30 to get back to Amsterdam. We got there just in time for dinner before the wine and cheese "candle light" canal cruise Amy and Lloyd had planned for their last night in Holland. It was beautiful, a two hour cruise through the canals at dusk, listening to the musings of the entertaining tour guide. It was a great night and we were sad to see them go, but we were exhausted by the time we got home at 1 am.