Our first day trip with Sarah and the kids was to Maastricht. This is a city approximately 15 minutes from Geleen by train and is where Sarah's office is. It is also one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. It was a beautiful place to spend a day....narrow cobbled streets, picture-perfect medieval buildings, and towering churches. One of the really cool places we found in Maastricht was a church that has been converted into a book store. We actually sought t...

Hello from the Netherlands! We have emerged from our fog of jet lag and it now seems to be a good time to fill you in on our last few days of travels. We left sunny Vancouver on Friday and arrived to a cloudy Amsterdam on Saturday. Travelling with my mother-in law, Sherri, and brother-in law Michael has been very amusing so far. This is the first time they have travelled to Europe and Matt and I have been so entertained by their travel rookiness:) We've been coac...