On Holland Ground. . . at last!

Today I finally arrived in Holland . . . nearly 24 hours after scheduled.  Sure am thankful to finally be here!  On Monday night around midnight (after departing MSP at 7:30p), our pilot announced that our plane encountered both an electrical problem and then a mechanically problem.  We were 3 hours from Amsterdam and 3 hours from JFK.  At that point we were over Greenland and had mostly flown over land.  They decided for safety reasons not to continue to fly over seas and we returned to JFK 3 hours later!  Oh joy!!!  We landed at JFK at 4am and our rescheduled flight left at 4:15p that day.  Talk about ~300 very tired and unhappy passengers!

So, today I arrived at AMS at 6:00am.  We travel back to Sebastiaan and Bregje's house and got settled in.  Then Sebastiaan, Isabel (age 1), and I went for a  bike ride.  It was a very nice ride to see the inner sea area and the nice community in this area.  It's really quite beautiful with nice homes and pastures & fields in the area as well.  We saw a lot of sheep and cows.  And, oddly enough there were some llamas at one home in their yard.  Sebastiaan said this is quite unusual!  After our bike ride we had lunch at home and then everyone took a nice long nap.  This was much needed for me after only getting about a total of 4-5 hours in the past two days of traveling!

Then we went and walked around the city of Hoorn.  It's a very nice city.  Tonight I think I will sleep well again!  Tomorrow Sebastiaan and I will spend the afternoon and evening in Amsterdam.

All for now!