Visitors from home!!

We've had Kimberly, Seth and Cayden Staley visiting us here in Zoetermeer. 

They arrived on Tuesday the 8th of August and stayed until Tuesday the 20th.  

 

What a great time we have had! 

 

We did some sightseeing, biking,

 touring & taking of many pictures,

 lots of eating or tasting of different foods, shopping, sleeping (that jet-lag really can be hard to deal with)

and we spent time in the Temple the  together. (That was really special for us all.)

We went to the Scheveningen and Katwijk beaches.

At Katwijk, Cayden and Grandpa, even went for a 

dip in the Zee. (ocean)

 the rest of us decided it was too  windy and cold to join them.

The weather forecast had been for 60 degree temperatures and rain for most of the duration

of their visit but as we went 

 from one place to another

 we were blessed with sunshine

 again and again. 

Usually it stopped raining just before we arrived at our destination and then began again either when we decided to head back to the car or just as we arrived where the car was parked.  

We thanked our Heavenly Father for this tender mercy each day.

We visited some of our favorite places here in Zoetermeer, 

We also took them to Leiden,
Gouda and Den Haag.

Another day we headed north to see Marken, Volendam,

 the afsluitdijk, Leeuwarden, (where Henk was born)

 & Giethoorn where the canals are the streets.
We had a wonderful time together and found it ending much too quickly.  We'll enjoy the memories that were made for a long time hereafter.