Ilana turned 11 years old this week, and today we went to her birthday party. It was an outdoor pool party.
The World Cup game between England and the USA started at 2.30 pm and we watched it from the bar at the pool area. It was an exciting game with a good result for the USA. Even if the goal in the 40th minute was a very lucky one. Ruud Gullit was a commentator for ESPN/ABC. I get the impression that soccer is getting more popular in the US.
In the evening Sasha and I made barbecue at our pool. We cooked chicken, sausage and corn, with plenty of leftovers for during the week.
The downside of traveling so much is that you always have to think ahead about logistics. It usually works out well but today we ran into a hug snag: no breakfast in house.
On the way to the grocery store I saw a big bird on the road, picking on some roadkill. I stopped to take a picture of the bird, and saw that there were five of them.
Note to self: going out in flips-flops in New Jersey early in the morning is not as nice as it is in North Carolina. It's too cold!
This is the apartment complex we're staying, seen from the public road.
My colleague Jason reattached a mud flap to our Camry today. One of the screws was out -- the flap must have gotten loose recently when a piece of road junk hit it. It was the first time I looked at the underside of the car. Thank you, Jason!
Tomorrow I'm driving back up north to New Jersey -- 450 miles or 725 kilometers.
Monday afternoon on the parking lot at work I discovered a crack in the windshield of our car.
It was about 6" to 8" long, and from the marks on the windshield it was clear that small stones or other debris had hit it. This probably happened when we were driving from New Jersey this weekend.
I brought the car to a glass repair shop on Tuesday; it took about an hour.
Today was election day in the Netherlands, and the Embassy in Washington DC has released the results of Dutch votes in the United States. Four designated four poll workers counted the votes, sent in orange envelopes, at the Embassy.
There were 1,767 valid votes counted (87 blank or invalid); here are the results:
VVD 557
PvdA 372
D66 316
GroenLinks 195
CDA 109
PVV 100
ChristenUnie 41
SP 35
Partij voor de Dieren 25
SGP 8
Partij voor Mens en Spirit 2
Piratenpartij 3
Trots op Nederland 3
Een NL 1
Worldwide there are 46.396 Dutch citizens who live outside the Netherlands and have registered to vote; about 2,000 of them in the United States.
Ilana turned 11 years old this week, and today we went to her birthday party. It was an outdoor pool party.
The downside of traveling so much is that you always have to think ahead about logistics. It usually works out well but today we ran into a hug snag: no breakfast in house. 
My colleague Jason reattached a mud flap to our Camry today. One of the screws was out -- the flap must have gotten loose recently when a piece of road junk hit it. It was the first time I looked at the underside of the car. Thank you, Jason!
Monday afternoon on the parking lot at work I discovered a crack in the windshield of our car.
