summer in Italy: Caorle

Our last 2 summer holidays turned out to be a little on the chilly side. This year we decided to take no chances and just keep driving until we reached somewhere where we were guaranteed of sun. We weren't disappointed!

Our first stop off was a hotel, on the beach in a gorgeous small town called Caorle (East of Venice).

playing in the sea

any guesses what song is playing on the beach now?

fun in the sand

Travis developed a small hamster-like smile this holiday!

that's better! 

any excuse to get back in the water!

The highlight of this part of the holiday was when we hired the pedal boat, on our last day. Lots of fun. The sea is very shallow for quite far so we had to pedal out quite a bit before we could slide or jump off the boat!

Posers!

back to school 2013/2014

The new school year has started! (You can see from the photo that this was about 3 weeks ago. Since then we have had rain, rain, cold, and more rain.)

Dylan is in Groep 3a and his teacher is Juf Margreet. He finally gets reading, writing and arithmetic and is loving it. He doesn't like the fact that he has to sit still for so long though.

Travis has started for real and is in Groep 1c. His teacher is called Juf Keziban. He settled in very quickly but was quite surprised to discover that he had to go EVERY (!?) day except on the weekend. Their first theme is 'Me.' This was his first 'werkje' (drawing.):