Gemeente Zeist

In the morning we went to Papa's cousin Bjorn's house. He has a wife, Annemiek and two children, Sven and Julia. Sven and Julia are my second cousins. They live in the town of Rosmalen.

We had a typical Dutch breakfast with Hagelslag, cheese, and Duo Penotti. Hagelslag is a type of chocolate sprinkle and Duo Penotti is a Nutella but also with white chocolate.

After breakfast Sven and Julia gave me a tour of their new house. It looks like a castle.

After that we went outside and played hockey. Sven and Julia both play Hockey so there were lots of spare hockey sticks. When I accidently hit Julia with the hockey stick, she said that maybe we should play soccer instead. Later I told her I was sorry that I hit her with the stick on the shin, she said it was fine and it happened a lot.

After a little bit of soccer, we went inside and played on their PlayStation. Because there were only two controllers, Julia and I went first. We played Sack Boy: A Big Adventure. It was my first time playing Sack Boy and I really liked it. After two levels Sven had a turn at his game. It was a FIFA world cup game. He is very good at it.

We then had to go to some other friends so we said goodbye and drove off.

The friends we were going to visit are Dutch friends from Australia who moved back to The Netherlands in 2022. The parents are called Michiel and Annabelle, and the kids are called Thomas and Abel. Michiel and Annabelle have been papa's friends since their early twenties, and they moved to Australia in the same year that Papa and Mama did! Even though they lived in Brisbane we regularly saw them. Thomas is only a few months younger than me, Abel is two years younger.

When we arrived Thomas and Abel showed me their new house in the village of Zeist. It was very cool. We then went outside. Thomas and I took turns shooting at the basketball hoop on the garage. Meanwhile Abel was making a sort of ramp that he rolled balls down. It was very cool. After a while Thomas and I joined him. We made a really cool track with jumps and drops. It was very fun.

We then went on a bush walk in the forest behind their house. We took their dog Migaloo on the walk as well. He is a Labradoodle. We had lots of fun exploring the forest but we had to head home. When we were back at their house we made a campfire. Michiel and Abel wanted to melt an aluminium can to see what would happen. Unfortunately the can did not melt. We had fun chopping the wood with an axe head we found. We also started a project, Migaloo had made a hole in the ground, so we got a long pointy stick and a hammer and drove it into the ground. It was very fun, but tiring.

It was getting late so we had to head home.

I had lots of fun today.

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