We arrived on a Sunday evening after a rather long flight with two little tots who could not really sit still while we all were up in the air. Spud made friends with a 5 year old English boy and his 15 month old sister, shuttling between her seat and his for one entire hour, while Squirt got really busy pushing his little cars from underneath our seats into someone else’s aisle. He also managed to annoy the crap out of 2 passengers in front of us by kicking the back of their seats (I didn’t realise he did that while he was at it) and banging on the foldable table that were attached to their seats.

Between the two, Spud was the better behaved one while Squirt caused massive mayhem and threw several temper tantrums when he could not get his way;  like having his seat belt on or being pulled away from other people aisle’s space. He caused me several “I-wish-I-could-shoot-you-dead-if-you cannot-shut-your-child-up” stare to which I acknowledged with an irritable “what-do-you-know-about-little-2-year-olds-you little-twarts” stare. A stare which later perpetuated to a “yeah-please-kill-me” resignation stare.

The two hardly even slept – Squirt managed a 20-minute nap whilst Spud had only an hour of sleep before the plane was due to land. When we finally landed and arrived at their grandparents’, the kids had, by Bangkok’s timing, a very, very late night! Thankfully, it was just in time to put the kids to bed when we got there. Both got up at an ungodly hour of 4 am on the very first morning in Holland.

We took the first few days free and easy with almost nothing planned for the entire week. And by the time I am writing this, I don’t actually recall what we did apart from doing groceries, hanging around the house, receiving some visitors who were all very kind enough to travel and see us, as well as eating lots of snacks and keropoks.

The kids had loads of fun hanging out with the neighbour’s kids who willingly entertain them or playing right outside their Oma and Opa’s home with their bikes or chasing bubbles without us worrying about the bad air or crazy motorists – a really nice change from Bangkok. Very heart-warming to see the kids all so full of joy and happiness with the little treasures in life!

The weather may have been a bit on a rainy side, even chilly when the wind made its debut, but it was not all that bad really. At least I think so.

And oh! We did have a full day in Amsterdam to ourselves without the kids, too. Lucky us.