Day 37 - Sailing, Swimming & Sunshine

Today, we woke up absolutely covered in mosquito bites. We had had a very restless night and kept hearing them landing on us all night. We walked down to get breakfast, and it turns out nearly everyone else had the same problem! As we were right by the water, there were thousands of mosquitos.

We had a delicious breakfast that they had made for us - bacon, eggs, fruit, croissants, and lots more!

Beppe gave Titus a bottle, and it was so funny! Titus couldn’t drink because he couldn’t stop smiling at her!

Today we mostly had a free day to do whatever we felt like doing! In the morning, we had a family photo planned. We talked to family a bit in the morning.

Once the photo was done, Auke took the girls sailing with his uncle, while Ali stayed behind to look after Titus. The weather was beautiful and there was plenty of wind.

Auke came back for a short time, and then he left again with the girls to take them swimming at the lake with some of the family. It was about a 15 minute drive away. When they got there, it was quite busy. They got in the water and the water was really warm. As it wasn’t very deep, Auke tried to swim out deeper while Anne Roos looked after the girls playing in the sand. They walked almost 600 metres out but it never got deeper than about 60cms and was still very warm which wasn’t great for cooling off on such a hot day!

In the mean time, Ali decided to take Titus for a walk as he was getting upset. As she had walked one way the night before, she decided to walk the other way this time. She walked and walked but there wasn’t really much to see except farms and a few houses. Eventually she came across a church but there wasn’t much else to see so she went back home.

About half an hour later, Berend and Ida got home and Ida offered to watch Titus while Ali went sailing with Berend, Pake, Thomas and Ollie. This was Ali’s first time ever sailing! There wasn’t much wind, but the weather was brilliant.

They stopped in the middle of the lake for a swim and the water was perfect for swimming in!

Afterwards, they settled back in the boat with a beer to cool off a bit more on the way home.

Once they were back home, we all had a bbq for dinner, and then we got the kids to bed a bit early so we could visit our friends Magda and Frans.

We drove just under an hour to visit them and it was so nice catching up!

On the way home, we saw the most stunning sunset!

Tonight we knew to look for mosquitos and we killed as many as we found before settling in for the night. We also covered ourselves and the kids in aero guard.