Alief Jan op klompjes

Dit is de kleine man op z'n klompjes!

De kwaliteit is wat slecht, volgende keer proberen we een filmpje te maken met hoge resolutie (maar dat is altijd een gevecht om het dan te up-loaden...). Groet'n uut Bogor!

Holiday 2011

   

It has been ages since I've been on the web to up-date my blog or send a mail message around to inform you all about my, our, status. Now there is this little boy running around the house, time seems to be completely consumed by him. Since I know I gained weight drastically, I started to work out at a fitness club nearby, but even that is sometimes difficult to accomplish.

However, we had a great summer holiday, and that is what I want to tell you about. We had a great time, leaving around the beginning of October to visit my mother in The Netherlands. We stayed at her house for some days which was really nice as autumn had come with nice weather. The walnut tree in her garden was dropping its lovely fruits in great numbers, so we spent several hours to gather the delicious fruits. Alief Jan crawled around the house and seemed to enjoy the cold weather (compared to Indonesia) as well. We played golf, went for some short walks and just relaxed after a year of hard work back home in Bogor and Jakarta.

  

After a week we went to visit friends and relatives on a boat on the Rhine and in Cologne (both Germany) and near Nijmegen in The Netherlands. It was very nice to be able to see a lot of people in a short time! After this short travel we had to head back for Hellendoorn in order to prepare for a bit bigger journey. We had to pack for Africa! We went to visit Arnoud and his wife Janeffer and son Arjan in Kenya. That was a superb experience. It was lovely to see them and have a nice time with them. We could even manage to do a small hiking safari near Lake Naivasha. We saw Wildebeast, Giraffe, Fish Eagle, Blacksmith Plover, Zebra, Thomson's Gazelle, Water Bock and we even heard the Hippo's in the Lake! Back home Alief Jan did his first steps without holding on to something and we went to a Giraffe Centre where we could even feed the huge animals by putting treats on their huge tongues.

      

Back to The Netherlands, meeting Igor (the husband-to-be of my sister, who arranged a fantastic Bed-and-Breakfast for us very quite and close to the city centre of Amsterdam!) and meeting up with my mother and Lourens for a last time before heading back home to Indonesia.

Some foto's

Dear all, just some photo's of Alief Jan!
Photo taken yesterday
Pappa in bed with Alief Jan
Alief Jan eating chocolate bread with mamma
Cruising the shopping mall with mom and dad
Like father, like son
In the swimming pool

The Belly

Hey there, just a picture of 'The Belly'!

1 More month, slowly starting to be quite exciting now!

All the best to all of you out there!

Cherio, Joost

A new car and a new canopy

Dear all!

Long time no sound from the belt of islands in the Far East, but we have not been that silent at all. Work has been quite demanding for both Widya and me. For Widya it has been a challenge to go to work and back all the way from Bogor, by motor, train and motor taxi. That means 4 hours a day of struggling with the West-Javan traffic... The hotel is running now and keeps her really busy as she lately has been assigned to restructurize the front office department of the Kempinski Residences (appartment tower). Means: no time to be bored. Leaving the house at 06.30 together with me and returning around 21.00 or 22.00 (finding me snoring...), that's what keeps her off the streets. To make the traffic challenge a bit bearable we decided to buy a car (yep, well... I know, mister 'green-left-wing-political-party-voter' finally got hooked: this planet cannot be saved anymore anyway (does still anybody disagree???)!). Now my darling only still has to get her driving licence and she will rumble the bumpy streets of Jakarta!

Below the car in front of our house.

Meanwhile we have been repairing our house as the canopy in the front almost came off! So we took it down and changed it for a new one. We directly installed a smaller canopy on the side of the house to give some protection to our Jazzy.

Work in the nursery has been exciting as well! We just finished the Geranium season this week and we directly shifted to our Aster and Chrysanthemum seasons. Within 2 months we will produce some 12 million of those plants (cuttings), so Europe is looking forward to a blooming spring and summer time! Meanwhile we are already thinking of expanding again...

Hoping to update soon again, I remain with best regards and a bear hug,

Joost from the Indo tropics

If the movie does not want to run....

Trip to NL in January 2010

Herewith a small impression of our nice holiday to The Netherlands (very cold), La Palma (Spain, pleasantly warm) and back to The Netherlands (still rather cold). Hiking, cake and wedding pictures in the snow.... sit back and enjoy! Joost