Well as I was looking over my blog I realized that is has been quite a while since I have posted anything. A lot has happened since I last posted. So I will start since my last post. School started for AC and Shania on August 18th, and Amina started on Aug 21 attending school for the first 3 weeks on Thursday and Friday. The 4th week AMina went Wednesday-Friday and since then she has gone Monday through Friday. Amina loves school and loves riding on the bus. She gets upset if she can't ride on the bus for example on the 4th of September Rick and I picked Amina up from school on the way to soccer practice so that after soccer practice we could go shopping for cleats for AC. Amina was upset and mad that she couldn't ride the bus home and them have me meet her at the bus stop and then go to soccer practice. We did this so that we wouldn't have to come home and not have 2 vehicles at the practice. Rick had been coaching soccer this season which ended on November 8th. The next sport that he will coach is Basketball which starts in December. AC played pretty good this year and even scored 3 goals in 3 different games. Rick does a great job with the kids and the kids seem to like him as a coach. We will see how basketball season goes.
On October 17thwe headed as a family to Frankfurt to meet my dad and brother Andrew for their trip to Europe. After pickinghtem up at the airport we drove around a little bit in Frankfurt and then stopped in Cologne(Koln) on our way home to see the Cathedral. I am in the process of posting pictures from our trip on my Facebook profile and will post a few here as well.
After coming back to Heerlen we headed to Brussels for Ac's soccer game on Saturday and began our trip of visiting 12 countries in 2 weeks. We went to Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Leichtenstein, Switzerland, France and of course the Netherlands. It was a lot of fun and we had a good time seeing things that we had already seen on our own and new things as well.
After we came back from our 2 week trip we(my dad and brother and I) took the train and headed to England for 9 days. We mostly visited towns and churchs and cemeteries where our ancestors lived but I was able to go and see the saloon car that my great, great grandfather Richard Bore designed and built for Queen Victoria. I had seen pictures of it before but it was cool to see it in person. While we we re in England we stayed with distant relatives so it was fun to meet people who I am realted to that I didn't really know about. Thanks David and Sue Fisher and Martin and Marie Thompson. You were all great hosts. Now I am back and trying to get into the swing of things again. I will hopefully post more again sooner than last time.
