Eliot's Travels

We rode back to school at noon to pick up Eliot. It was so windy that I was pedaling as hard as possible and barely moving. Again. Hopefully, the trip home would be less painful!

Today was a short day for everyone because of Pakjesavond (evening of packages). Jason and Eliot posed for a photograph. Everyone seemed to enjoy the party. Lucien said Eliot was hesitant with all the games. One game was throwing empty packages into a chimney to practice being a Piet. They had candy and cookies. Eliot said that he "had lemonade, but it wasn't very lemony."

Sinterklaas had given all the children a nice collapsable suitcase, which seemed perfect for our trip back to the US for Christmas. Eliot was quite happy with his chocolate Piet and Sint.

When we got home, we saw a taxi taking off from our apartment building. Sure enough, Jim had made it back from London. The flight was so bad on both ends of his trip because of high winds that he was nauseous for 30 minutes. We all had lunch.

The gods must have been with us because both of the boys took an afternoon nap. This is amazing, since we had such big plans for the evening and it hardly ever works like you want it to.

posted by Whitney @ 5:41 AM