In the last days of 2010 we got the sad news that Milan, the son of our dear friends Anneke and Cordy (back in Holland), has passed away from a viral infection. We don’t know any more about it, but Milan has been multiple handicapped since birth with hard to … » full post and pics!
2010 was again a pretty important year for us! Many camping trips, new additions to our family and finally our permanent residency status in June!
In the first part of the year we had our friend Mark from Lloydminster stay with us while he worked in Regina and were glued … » full post and pics!
We’ve been so busy since we got back from BC, that I couldn’t keep up with the updates!
PR Card
We both have our Permanent Resident Cards now (I got it in August, Nico had to send in new pics and got it … » full post and pics!
A sad day in TV history. I just watched the final episode of As The World Turns after being on the air for 54 years! Impossible to understand how crappy soaps like the Bold can exist and this one can’t. It had been my favourite TV show for 20 yrs … » full post and pics!
YEEAAAHHHHH we got the email from the Canadian visa office in LA that we can send in the passports for the permanent residence visas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!… » full post and pics!
Last night there has been a cougar sighting IN the city (the first ever!) only 2 km away from our house, by the Conexus Art Centre at the Wascana Lake. About 10pm, a city bus driver radio-ed in a description of the animal, saying he was quite familiar with what … » full post and pics!
We have all 2009 pics online now. This is not the complete list: we already posted many albums in our weblogs, like the camping weekends and the family visit vacation, but here are the photo albums of 2009 that we did NOT post here yet!
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Right now we’re in full Olympics mode!! The openingsshow in Vancouver was fantastic and made us so proud to be a Canadian resident!! And thanks to our wonderful neighbours Mike and Alison we finally have the Olympic mittens too now! As for the games… Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer has Gold … » full post and pics!
RIP Melissa
Our hearts broke when we learned of our friend Barbara’s daughter Melissa’s unexpected passing at age 23 of a lung embolism. No one should ever have to deal with something like this, but Bar least of all. She just had a hard year after getting a new kidney, … » full post and pics!