The Sun is out!!

To day the sun came out in Den Haag. It has been a while, feels like weeks. It was inspiring to see a clear blue sky and a bright shining sun. Even in the midst of tragedy (Haiti, and a friends 6 year old son died this morning) the sun is still bright and the sky is still blue. Pain is still pain, but is good to know Joy is still joy as well. My heart goes out to Loren and his family with the loss of his son. Also, to the People of Haiti, pray for my friend Jen, she is a doctor and is headed there to help(http://providenceinhaiti.org/). Enjoy the sunset.

De Fiets

This is a picture of my bike, which in dutch is fiets. I don't ride it everyday, because I prefer to walk to work, but when I do its a good bike. It is an American made bike, which perplexes some Dutch people, but it still rides good, not as good as a Dutch bike, because they are especially gifted in making good bikes, but it is good enough. The word for biker is Fietser. I like this word, Fietser, leuk.

Foggy Grote Kerk

Ok, this is technically from yesterday, but I liked it a lot. I woke up to a foggy Den Haag and as I looked around saw all the tall buildings fading away into the low clouds. The Grote Kerk (big church) was off to the north of my place and I got a cool shot of the steeple fading into the fog. I guess to me this is Europe, fog rain, clouds, old churches.

My Floor!!!

Ok, I had a couple of pictures to choose from today, but this was the most exciting to me. I can see my floor!!! In my office. When I arrived in The Hague, my office was so full of papers and "stuff" I couldn't even see the floor, but now after months of hard work and sifting through everything I can actually see my floor. I know this is a little thing, but its a big thing for me, because it symbolizes moving in the right direction. Baby Steps.

Mary Popins without the top of her head

This is a statue that I pass everyday to and from work. I think it looks like Mary Poppins without the top of her head. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't, but it is so strange. Here is this seemingly happy woman without the top of her head. I always wondering what the artist is trying to say or portray? Who knows...maybe the artist knows.

Oude, Jonge, Blauw Kaas The real joy of Holland

Here is a shot of my favorite thing about living in the Netherlands, CHEESE!!! or as the dutch all it KAAS!!! I love the dutch cheese, these are three kinds of cheeses, the old cheese, the young cheese and some blue cheese. I tasted it all at the cheese shop where there was a very nice shop keeper who helped me out a lot, and they were all amazing. I will definitely be going back there again. I am really excited to have fresh cheese back in the house and can't wait to eat it all up. This really is a joy of life. Be jealous!

Poffertjes

One of the beautiful things about living in Holland are the Poffertjes. We had great poffertjes today at Maliveld, they were amazing. Poffertjes are like little pancakes covered in butter and sugar, delicious. I know have another favorite food I am not suppose to eat. While we were there it began snowing this made of a wonderful day of sweet good food and very pretty weather outside.