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| Pete scored us comp tickets to Kasey Musgraves at Paradiso. An old friend plays in her band. She was playing music from her new album and I thought it was great! |
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| My friend, Loreen, is an artist in the city and runs private workshops. I got a group of friends together for an introduction to watercolors workshop at our house one weekday morning. I must say that we all did pretty well! |
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| The ISA Percussion groups were invited to play at de Hallen on Liberation Day. A fun excuse to go into the city on the Sunday holiday. They played beautifully and we enjoyed lunch in the food court. |
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| It was too beautiful to go straight home, so we stopped in Vondelpark for a drink at Melkhuis. |
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| Dakota and I walked to see the rhododendrons in Amstel Park |
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| I met Tobey for lunch at a Korean fried chicken place I'd wanted to try and then we saw the Frans Hals exhibit at the Rijks museum. A very impressive portrait artist! |
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| We went to the Amsterdam Champagne Fete with friends, including a lot of Frenchies. The kids had a fun time with their friends and playing in the kids' corner. Pete rode all of us in on the bakfiets! |
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| Jude is on the U-12 baseball team now. Much higher level of play! |
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| The science department hosted a Friday TGIF complete with lots of homebrew.
I volunteered to help with the Ghana Fundraising Concert this year, organizing the donated food at intermission, sending communications advertising the event, and selling tickets. Pete donated a 12-pack of his Amber and Eve beer to the raffle prizes. |
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| A great concert, which raised over 4,000 euros for the Nunya Academy in Ghana. |
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| A small mom's night out with drinks at Hilary's followed by food and drinks at Waterkant. We made some friends and went to the Piano Bar before returning to Hilary's until way too late. I think I'm still recovering! |
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| Roadies in Ikea kid's cups. |
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| Jude at Finn's birthday party |
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| I chaperoned Jude's class trip to the Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime museum), which tied in nicely with their explorers unit. |
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| Voluptuous figureheads and colorful language by the tour guide made for a very memorable outing! |
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| A walk to Broersepark with Dakota |
And a boat ride with teacher friends to end a great month. We had bought a summer deal voucher for 4 hours of sailing with Sloepdelen last year, but didn't get around to using it. It expired May 31st so we booked the boat for that day and hoped for the best with the weather! The weather held and we had a great time with Captain Robbie complete with a stop at Brouwerij 't IJ while our boat was successfully moored at the dock with the help of a grocery bag!
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