August 8th ~ Aachen to Holland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 So this morning - Friday the 8th of Aug ~ we woke up in Aachen Germany and that was pretty close to the Dutch border!  Getting closer all the time!

We looked for a place to have breakfast and found a little bakery in town...and we parked the car and had a light breakfast with a good cup of coffee outside on the terrace in front of the bakery!

 Then found the highway again that we had turned off of last evening and headed toward Holland again!!!! 




Then we saw a sign Antwerpen and also Heerlen...now Belgium or Holland Ellen?????

 Of course....Holland...yes!!!!  A BIG YES!!!!!

 The roads were so nice...and so easy to follow and drive.......and then....and then......and then.......

Holland...Nederland....The Netherlands!...home...yes the place I was born!!!  Nico in Indonesia...Ellen in Holland!!!!!

WOW!!!!

From Oct 2013 when Skyler was 8 months.....

..... to Skyler now 2 years and 3 months almost!!!!  




HOLLAND...we are here!

 We came to to the border and turned towards to Beek where Nick's cousin lives!

We stopped at a shopping center so that I could first put in a new Dutch SIM card in the Iphone...and what fun it is to talk Dutch and hear all those people speaking Dutch!!!!

Nick & I chuckle to hear it all around us...after so many different languages this past year! 

 2nd Floor/level parking !

 Downtown Heerlen was very cute!  We enjoyed just strolling around...while we took care of some items we needed! 

 Then within 15 min we were in Beek...and arrived at their home!!! How sweet! 







 Such a nice home...2 story...with a garage and front & backyard!  Oh I should of taken many more pictures!

 Margreet went to go look for us - but we had already arrived...we found the house - !!!

 Nick's cousin Margreet and her husband Cor live here in Beek!  What a sweet picture of her!

We had a lovely afternoon!  Cor & Margreet had dinner for us too...and we enjoyed being together & catching up a little bit more!!!  

























So her father & Nick's father were brothers!  Can you see a resemblance??? Yes I see the Diemel "Look" alright! 

 The bought this very small "miner's house" - these homes were rented to the families of the miners!  Mitzi & Mart bought the home...took bricks from a old farm house...and used them to build and enlarge and improve this house!

Nice Job Mitzi & Mart...you should be very proud of what you have both done!!!

 So very nice to meet Mitzi and Mart /~   Margreet's daughter & family! 

On the Road Again...towards The Hague...! Wow Getting closer all the time to Jas, Milou and SKYLER!!!!!!!  yEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We called Jas, and Tineke my girlfriend and also Tante Ada- Mom's sister...so now we go to sleep...it is 10:48 here and we have an exciting day/weekend to look forward to!!!  Wow!!!

Are we excited?