Our first visit to the sea and beach. This time we decided to go
to Rodger's beach, where I first learned to swim.
Lydia organized a birthday party for Pongo (the dog). Here is the
birthday boy
in front of the cake. He did (unfortunately) not have any cake
himself, but did not miss
much as the kids complained that the icing tasted like medicine.
A quiet moment in the family room. That day, Lydia made tie-died
T-shirts for everybody.
Here is Christopher receiving his First Holy Communion on Aruba from
Father Tony Peralda.
As usual, it was quite warm in the church, but Christopher was a
trooper in his
formal white suit.
Afterwards we had a reception at the Blue Army Center which was
decorated until
2 am the night before by Agnes, Franklin and Marja.
Christopher enjoyed himself as the star of the day.
One of our guests was Jan Poets who supplied the pictures for the
local paper "Diario".
We were given almost a whole page in full color for this event.
We had about 70 guests including 20 kids.