On Saturday Daddy took us and Bella for a bakfiets ride in the Dunes.  Mommy rode along on her bike.  We stopped at the top of a long steep hill to have a rest and found lots of pretty shells on the pedestrian path.

Riding the Bakfiets in the Dunes

We’ve been helping Daddy rebuild the bakfiets so now it has a new box with two benches and a cover.  It rained off and on so we took the cover off and on.

We rode all the way to the pannenkoekenhuis.  First we played on the playground, then we introduced Bella to big Dutch pancakes.  We had our usuals – apples with raisins and apples with pineapple and Bella tried apple.

On the way back we stopped at a couple of ponds and saw lots of ducks.  Some of them had either red beaks or red masks – they were too far away to tell which it was, but there was definitely red on their heads.

Henry, Bella and William

Day 1 with the bakfiets

Back from the market with lots of food.

When we came out school yesterday I told daddy I really liked the black bakfiets out front and that we should get one. I was so surprised when daddy said it was our new bakfiets. Daddy has not ridden a bike in a few years and today he had to bike 12 kilometers to bring the bike home. Daddy looked very tired and was not up for cruising all over town today.

Our first voyage took us to the Albert Hein for some groceries. We really like the sausage from the local butcher so we picked up 4 sausages on the way home. The bike is too big to fit through our front door so we parked down at the corner at a bike rack.

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Day 3 with our bakfiets.

Lounging in the bakfiets.

Dad picked us up from school today and did not look so tired.  It is only 1 kilometer ride from our house.  Thursday is street market day so we picked up some: grapes, clementines, chicken, nuts, brocoli and a new  ball of yarn.  Henry says that he loves the taste  of ice cold grapes from the market.