Where are Grandma & Grandpa?

 

We spent a lovely three weeks in Zeist with a short trip to Barcelona over Halloween. It was great to see what G & G's life is like, what they are doing and meet their new friends. Our first week was spent trying to recover from jet lag and following G & G around while they did their work. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 On our first evening the institute that G & G taught was at a bishops house and what would you know they had a trampoline, Chuggington, Thomas the Train, and How to Train Your Dragon toys so the kids were right at home.

 

 

 

 

 

  


The kids loved the nursery's so we played at the 2 churches while G & G taught institute later in the week.

We accompanied G & G to stake conference and is Dean listening to the English translation.

 

 

The people were exceptionally kind and friendly and kids made a few friends quickly. Dean says the favorite part of visiting G & G was the park behind their house. Here he is with a few neighbor boys at the park. They played on the playground, with hot wheel cars, and shared Kinder Eggs (chocolate eggs with a tiny toy inside).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dean also made friends with one of the missionaries, Elder Roberts. We saw him three times during the trip and you would have though they were best for years! 

 

 

 

 

Dean has been into Geckos lately (dressing up as a gecko in his long johns every single day) and one of the toys that Grandma was able to borrow was a blue rubber gecko. Before we left Sonder ( the grown boy whose toy it was) gave it to Dean for a birthday present so we got to take it home. Dean was so pleased!

One evening G & G invited some friends over for dinner and what do you know, they knew how to tie balloon animals! Ruby was instantly in love. 



 One of the best parts of visiting G & G are the priceless moments together between work and tourist adventures; squeezing OJ, playing toys with Grandpa, playing with grandpas headlamp in the wee hours of the morning, and of course drinking juice out of a bowl in Grandmas kitchen because that's what geckos do.

Where are Grandma & Grandpa? This was the response I got every time we went to G & G's house here in Utah before our trip. And after, we drive past G & G's neighborhood and what do hear from the back seat? "Are G & G waiting at their house for us?"......Not for another 15 months, buddy!... We might need to take another trip.