The excellent windmills are complements of our nephews Jack and Eric. The spread featured Gouda cheese, Amstel Light, windmill cookies and mini-stroopwaffels! To learn more about stroopwaffels, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel.

Melinda and Julie gave us a great send-off party today! The open house was perfect and the length was really good because we got to catch up with a lot of people. We can't thank them enough. I can't believe we'll be leaving, even though it's coming up quickly...Dan will be looking for our living quarters this week and then we should have a date!

I will upload pix tomorrow. The format of blogging seems so different from what it was three years ago when we had our http://www.danandmadeline.blogspot.com/ travel blog. There seem to be a lot more options and it seems more user friendly!