Baby it's cold outside!!

Well winter has finally found Holland. It is freezing here! They are hoping that within a couple of days we can be outside skating on natural ice. BRRRRR! The last few mornings we have been waking up to the sounds of people scraping the ice off their car windows! The only real advantage to it being this cold is that the sky is beautiful and blue and most of the day the sun is shining. So the grey days are gone. The sunsets have been beautiful reds and pinks. So maybe there is snow in the near future too! Not really looking forward to that but love the sunshine!

Sunday we went to Brokerveiling, a museum in Broek in Langedijk, it is the old aution house for fruits and vegetables. We took the kids there a few years ago in the autumn and they carved pumpkins. This year they had a Christmas Market. It was nice and cozy and COLD! Jenna, Sabine and Pim came with us. Funny how the only way you get a teenager to come with you is if you allow them to bring friends. I think the kids had fun. They got to make their own candles. And I got a picture of Jenna and Pim together. She is going to kill me for posting this but oh well. I think that they make a nice couple. He is a nice boy. She seems to really like him and they get along well. Here are a few pictures of yesterday. Enjoy!

Jenna and Pim ( that isn't real snow, they had a snowmachine)Sabine, Jenna and Pim

Making candles

Jenna, Jan, Sabine & Pim in the auction house, to the left is water where they bring the boats full of veggies in to be auctioned off. They start with a high price and let it go lower, the idea is for you to get the lowest price available.