zondag 21 september 2008

nightmarathon & kennedymars haaksbergen

Friday evening the nightmarathon (42km) and kennedymars (80km) started again. i looked forward to it already a long time. every year i join the nightmarathon 42km together with my mom. the nightmarathon and kennedymars always starts at 22:00 in haaksbergen at the bouwmeester. we all walk through the night. the nightmarathon has to be back the next morning at 9:00 in the bouwmeester in haaksbergen and the kennedymars will be back at 18:00 together with the daymarathon that stated at 6:30 in the morning. when you made it you get this medal afterwards :-) its every year a big event and a lot of people join the walk :-) i started the nightmarathon when i was 13 years old that was my first time :-)

zondag 14 september 2008

Family day at the zoo in emmen

Yesterday Jantien (a relative of my mom's site) and her boyfriend Dietmar came over by car and spent one night at my house. when they arrived around 21:35 we talked a little and i showed my home to them than we got ourselfs ready to go out to the city. we first had a drink in the 2 wezens (thats a cafe) and after we went for a while to the rits (a party cafe) where we met some of my friends so we talked a little and left back home around 02:00 back home and went to sleep.
This morning we woke up at 07:30 and got ourselfs ready at 09:00 my parents, my brother richard, me, jantien and dietmar left by car to the zoo in emmen where we had a meeting with some more relatives of my mom's site who we have never met so it was the first time we have met each other. when we all got at the entrance of the zoo we went insite and first talked with each other and went around telling who we were and had a cup of coffee and/tea together. after that we all left to see the animals at the zoo the whole group kind of broke up so i watched the animals with my uncle Hans, his wife Reina and their little boy Swen. the younghest daughter of hans my causin Tynke have watched the animals with my parents and brother and not that much later the eldest daughter Froukje and her boyfriend joined my parents and brother too. the last two hours we went through the zoo together my parents, uncle, aunt, my brother, sven, tynke, froukje and her boyfriend and me together. at 16:00 we all have met again and made a group picture together and had a drink together and than most of the people left back home. it was a really fun day and we had a very good weather the sun was shining all day :-) so up to next family day.