Not much happened today but I'll enter this. We hung out at our cousins' home and worked on our packing of luggage. Yes, the luggage arrived in Amsterdam having passed the Bole airport authorities but we took some coffee out, an Ethiopian black pottery dish broke and we were buying some stuff in Europe (mostly cheese). So we rearranged luggage weight until everything was under 23 kgs. per bag (but as I write on on Monday night we are rearranging a bit more with a few more purchases).
But it was also such a nice day to hang out with Bob & Miriam and talk with them about all sorts of ideas, issues and hopes. We have been blessed to have as our hosts and tour guides friends and family in Almere and Basel but it was very helpful to have folks from our cultural background help explain Dutch culture for us. They are observers and still outsiders even as they have learned the language and are living as Dutch. But being from the same family and being from the U.S. was very helpful to interpret Dutch values and mores.
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