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April 10, 2003 : the birthday.
Pictures do more than words in many cases, and so I must, at this moment in time, share few words. Eva got up pretty late and sped off to work. Last night at Carrefours, we had purchased many a birthday-festive-food-item one of which was croissants. The plan was for her to get up early and have breakfast with/for me. Well, as usual, she got up fairly late and sped off to work. I wasn't upset, only slightly disappointed. Besides, I was tired and fell back to sleep. About a half hour later a knock on the door startled me out of my sleep and when I answered the door there she was with flowers. She had taken the day off and planned a huge surprise for me all along. I was completely convinced that she had headed to work and there she was out in the falling and melting snow (yes, a bit of snow!) hunting down a bunch of flowers and a special treat of raspberries. Now am I the luckiest or what? She then told me that she had another surprise but that I had to drive us there in the car. We criss-crossed around the southern part of the Netherlands, and arrived at Efteling. It was one of Eva's favorite places to go when she was little and figured today would be a great day to share it with me. It's an amusement park geared toward children but with really scary rides for adults as well. I've always been into the more scary rides before, but as the years go by, well they made me nervous and scared me to death. As the following photo speaks so loudly. So that about says it all. It was a wonderful birthday. I of course neglected to tell you about our missing one turn en route to Efteling and that I left the gas lid on top of the car and as we sped onto the highway it flew off the car roof and I immediately knew what had happened and was severely embarrased. (it's happened twice in my years of driving!) But other than that, it was a great day. Thank you Eva, for making the celebration of my birth x27 a wonderful one. IN THE NEWS: |
