6.21.2009

NL - 20th, June, 2009 Sat (Sunny, 18~25C) Baexem : Windmill & Asparagus

In the afternoon, we visited to the Biz-Biz ( St Antoniusstraat 5a, 6095 AK Baexem. http://www.bis-bis.nl/baexem.php ) which sell the second hand goods, it is 45mins drive from Eindhoven. There are totally 6 locations but no more for Weert.

People gave their goods to the shops for free and they sell very cheap to others. You can find furniture, kitchen wares, clothes, Electronics products, toys, etc. For examples, some of the sofa may cost only 15 to 35EU$ or beautiful plates for 1.5EU$/ea, etc.



On the way back to Eindhoven, we saw the Aurora Melon (Aurora windmill) .





Some fresh asparagus (AARDBEIEN in Dutch) and local peach from Netherlands , fresh cherry & strawberry from Spain were sold near the roadsides. The asparagus was very fresh and just harvested from the fields, they were much cheaper than what we bought from the local markets in Eindhoven. Though it is small, not as round as the normal peach, the local peach is much juicy and sweeter.







6.19.2009

NL - 18th, June, 2009 Fri (Sunny, 18~25C) Eindhoven : The Expatriate Families and Syuan's Birthday

There was an happy gathering with the anticipated of YL's colleagues, expatriate families, friends and Syuan's birthday on 18th, June evening.



We have HaiNan chicken rice, fish curry, hand made pork dumpling, stewed beef, vegetables, almond pudding, cakes that made or helped by mothers from the expatriate families.



From the following photos, can you guess who are the couples or the parents of the children?




The cook team






Netherlands colleagues and friends




The balloon party



The balloon music team



The gentlemen team



The ladies team

The princesses team

The princes team





Others

The sides show may provide some clues........



And................. The answer is






Yes, I'm sure you have a good guess. Hurray!!!



Let's sing the birthday song together in Dutch, Chinese, English,......










Some gifts received by Syuan for her birthday


Ray & Joanna received many flowers and gifts from friends too.

And the biggest gift was........The Big "Thank You" on the floor.

Appreciated for all of you to attend the gathering and gifts.
Moreover, thank you very much for your patient to view all the photos. Have a nice day!