Day 133 – December 3

Today Camy had a performance with all 6th, 7th and 8th graders in chapel. They had to sing all kinds of songs because of advent. Advent is the season that lasts for four Sundays leading up to Christmas. At that time, the new Christian year begins with the twelve-day celebration of Christmastide, which lasts from Christmas Eve until Epiphany on January 6. (Advent begins on the Sunday that falls between November 27th and December 3rd each year).

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The church was already decorated for Christmas and there were three trees.

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All decoration was made of foam and beads.

The performance was outstanding, she did very well and all was learned by heart. After chapel was over and all students returned to their class we drove towards the Altamonte Mall and had lunch at Tijuana Flats which was new to us. Tijuana is a Mexican Food restaurant which is better than Taco Bell and that we already love.

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And it was set up real nice from the inside.

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This is the ceiling.

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All kinds of sauces mild to very very hot!

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And when we were all done they asked us wether or not we wanted to take the chips with us. Well that happened to be a refill since we got a new back of potato chips to take home. Just superb service!

At 4.00PM we picked Camy up from school and had some fun in Winterpark, we did not go home since Camy had to be back at school for another performance. So we got back to school at 5.00PM for dinner and at 6.30PM the next show started. So she had two performances today. Tonight she had to perform for parents and grandparents and other relatives that were unable to attend earlier today.

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Dinner was set up at the gym for all parents and pretty convenient for us since it takes us an hour to get home and then another hour to get back to school again. And guess what, we had sauerkraut for dinner, that’s been a long time…delicious!

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The advent was done by 8.00PM and we headed home right away. My mother happen to see the show live because it was streamed live. We informed her ahead of time so she was able to sign in from the other side of the world and see Camy perform. She loved it, that is todays technology!

Day 130 – November 30

Today we drove around and visited a market we have wanted to visit for quite some time now but never had the opportunity to do so. It seemed like a fun place but since we always drove by fast we actually did not know. Today we will stop by and find out.

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It was a market where they also sold animals and it looked more like a market in Africa, how much “trash” can you sell.

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Can you tell how much fun they are having, they just love it here, NOT!

All in all it was not much and certainly not what we expected, half of all the stands were closed and all the stand that were open had nothing but trash.

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Afterwards we headed towards the golfclucb of Kissimmee. The golf club is located right besides a small airport, Kissimmee Airport. About every 30 minutes a plane took off or landed, all in the private plane variety.

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Camy wanted to drive the golf cart, so we explained how to and since she is a quick learner she took over the wheel.

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Bram in action.

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Oh, how good is life when there is a little sun every single day.

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On th parking lot there were some cranes picking seeds, we counted 12, never seen this many hanging out togheter.

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When we got home again there was still a little sun so we enjoyed that by sitting outside and having a cup of tea and a peanutbutter snickers bar with that.

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Later that evening Camy and I started to decorate the Christmas tree, the lights are in it already. Maybe a little early but everybody is getting ready for the holiday season, and you know the do not celebrate December 5th like we do. So we can enjoy it for a month long.