hello holland!

So i have finally arrived! Mom and i had a brutal flight to london...the system crashed and there was no reading lights, or TV screens!! meaning my excitement for watching movies the whole flight was quickly extinguished. thank goodness for my new Nintendo DS (courtesy of kelsey!!) so i played that and looked outside (the plane followed the sun...great). i managed to get an hour of shut eye, but because there was no tv, all the kids in the plane were restless and kept me up.

here's my great travel partner, me bored and taking pictures, and the useless TVs.


here's the arrival to schipol airport in amsterdam! it's really a beautiful airport. and my first time using my dutch passport! i'm really a dutch citizen now!!


and here's the beautiful dutch home we are staying at in a town called Bilthoven--near Utrecht. They are great friends of our family, the Elsenburgs, and they are pretty much the dutch equivalent to my parents. I'm the luckiest girl to have them close to me (about an hour train from eindhoven) somewhere to fee like home.



so all in all things are fabulous so far! we have a little van (like a mini mini van!) to help load things...poor mom, its such a big car for this country! lots more pictures to come of the adventures of heather and karen outfitting an apartment!

love.