Back to work...Back to Reality!

After a summer vacation in the states when we visited BJ in California, checked out Brad's new art gallery in Chicago, and I went to my (GASP!) 40th high school reunion, we are now back in Holland, and I'm back at work at the American School of The Hague. I moved from grade four to grade three because of numbers, but got to stay in the same classroom. I have 16 children, 8 boys & 8 girls. All speak English except one beautiful little girl from Rome who only speaks Italian. :) My class is about half American, many Northern Europeans, and one South African.
Today was very warm, so we rode our bicycles to the North Sea Beach in Wassenaar.(about 4 miles west of us) There are dunes there, and the land is not flat like the rest of Holland. As long as you're biking downhill, and WITH the wind, its a delightful ride. (the other way...not so easy) I thought the water was relatively not so bad, something like Lake Michigan in early June. It was PACKED with bicycles and Dutch people. Literally, there must have been 500 bicycles locked to the fences! And that explains why people are so healthy here.