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Day 148 – December 18

Wether or not we have got visitors does not really matter, the alarm clock still rings at 6.00AM. We all have to take a shower, get dressed and have some breakfast before we head towards school. The car is filled with two grandma’s and a granddad who will join us today.

Because Camy had school until 1.00PM, she only had two tests today, Bram and I had thought about what to do this morning and we came up with the idea to visit the village of Christmas.

First we went to McDonalds to have a cup of coffee and an egg muffin, once doen we drove off to Christmas.

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We had visited this village only a week ago but we had not visited the open air museum, so that is just what we did today.

We also visited the museum about Floridian wars.

Next to the fort there were some houses of the 1700-1800’s. It is similar to the Pioneer House in Kissimmee.

At 1.00PM we picked Camy up from school and went to Winter Park. We first had lunch, a wonderful pita bread and falafel. Because we had the lunch on the go we sat down at the harbor of our boat tour.

And about 30 minutes our boat departed through the different canals of Winter Park and we made some stops at the different lakes as well. The weather was very good so we all enjoyed our tour.

Around the lake some real big villa’s were build and some of them belong to some famous people, like NBA-stars and other well-known people.

In the middle of the lake there was a tree holding christmas bells.

Around the lake you also saw trees with Spanish moss. It looked really good but, unfortunately, it does not really show in the picture.

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Day 135 – December 5

Yesterday was the original launch planned at Cape Canaveral but because of a technical deficiency it was postponed to today. At 6.45AM we turned on the tv and watched the news. At 7.00AM the shuttle was launched and we were able to see it just before we left for school.

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After it was launched we ran outside and onto the street and after about 30 seconds we see the rocket. Too bad it was cloudy but we were still able to see the rocket in air!

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After we took Camy to school we went geocaching today, it was on our to do list from the beginning but as of yet we were unable to cross it off our list.

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This is our first cache.

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Bram goes into the bushes trying to find it, I remain on a safe distance, I’m so scared of spiders…

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The second cache we were looking for was a little harder to find.

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We also saw someone from Holland, how’about this license plate.

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The third and final cache of today was a real brainer. We finally found it near the electricbox of which you needed a code. We had to test our brain but we figured it out! This was one of the better caches, different from all the others.

day135-10 After school we stayed in the neighborhood because in Winter Park the Christmastree was going to be lit. This is a real happening with lots of people coming over to see all the lights turned on.

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Also the entire park was decorated.

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You were even able to ice-skate, which we did not do, I think we can do so next month when we are returning home.

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Later that evening we got our seats and watched a movie in the park, the had set up a big screen so everybody was able to join the movie in the outside. In the end it got a little cold but we had our covers.