Wassenarseslag

What? That's Wassenaar Beach in Dutch. During their visit, I took the family to the local beach in Wassenaar for some sun and relaxation. The kids braved the water and Catrin buried Steffie to his neck in a sand mermaid sculpture. Beautiful afternoon.






As the weather was too good to sit inside, we decided to forego another visit to the fondu restaurant. We headed to the market to get supplies for that evening's bbq followed by singing, dancing, kick boxing demonstrations, head stands, and lessons for the kids in how to do what Alex calls the "cocky walk".... We ended the evening with my now-official signature dessert that I call "Monkey Pudding" - yum!

Exploring Beauty

Remember the Beauty Project? Well, it became Exploring Beauty and it had its first gallery opening in a series in Antwerp on the last weekend in May. Unfortunately for us, we (and many others) were caught in a four-hour backup in traffic on the motorway, so we missed the presentation and keynotes, but it was a great show. More models have joined the project as a result.

This article is published in the Health and Well-Being section of away magazine in Belgium.

http://www.awaymagazine.be/

Great Publicity for the AWC

This article will appear in the semi-annual Global The Hague magazine, a sophisticated winter/summer publication!

http://www.globalthehague.nl/

Zaanse Shans village

You never know who you might see!

In early June, the in-laws came for a week's visit with our niece and nephew. Early in the week we visited Zaanse Shans. This charming village was built by relocating old wooden houses, windmills, storehouses and more to create this replica of a village on the river Zaans. It also contains beautiful gardens and scenery, the bakery museum and the museum shop of Albert Heijn (a famous supermarket here founded in 1887.) We strolled around the whole place, visited the shops, museums and windmills and had traditional pannenkeuken for lunch - yum!

Next up: A visit to our local beach.