Basketball Alone (No Teammates)...Sad!

Today, it was a very congenial weather in Zuid Holland. I was able to do basketball in the park and had time also to practise with my new inline skates. I have bettercontrol now than last week. I moved to a bigger wheeled one and a faster better inline skates but I have topractise before I can get used to it...And I do love it! Much! This post is for the basketball part, though. :=) Riminisching..

Rijswijk Christmas Nature in Netherlands 2010

We had our guests a couple and 3 kids during the Christmas holiday. They're from another country... in a city where Mercedez Benz was born (guessing time). During Christmas, we had to show them around, especially the kids because they are here with us only for a few days. As we were walking to get the tram to someplace around, we passed by this park near where we live... but along the way, there were fun sighting too. See them below.

It was Christmas Day and the snow was thick but the sun was shining.
It was a lovely day. This is a close shot of the nest seen at the top
of the tree in the next photo.

See the nest up there?

We had also fun watching at this resting (or sleeping?) bird at the top of the street light!

Lucky ducks, they have a portion of the little lake left not frozen where they can swim and dive and look for their food...

Here's Rudolf being fed... he was tired from last night's service...:)

More food for Rudolf...

Foodfoodfood.... and it was later we realized it's not allowed to feed them!

The Hague Scheveningen Winter 2010, Netherlands

We had an entire family as a guest during Christmas and it was not simple to find something open at Christmas day and have some entertainment for the guests at the same time. Below was our adventure in snowy ground and when we reached the centrum area, it snowed further! Before that, we were at the park near the apartment. That was the Nature Encounter in Rijswijk, where the kids highly enjoyed as well. We showed them the center area of the Hague, where it looks deserted because it was Christmas and establishments were closed. We ended up in the beach area, in Scheveningen. We ate dinner there and went back home. We had the second dinner at home again.:)

Greeting you all a Merry Christmas,first and foremost... then we can proceed.

Our 3 little mountain climbers are on their way to the top... all3!

And they are the winners!

The city center, near the city hall, the library and the theater, it really looked dead and abandoned that day...

Let's give the word"beach" another meaning....all covered with snow and hardened snow (ice)...

The shoreline was all white...not with sand but with solid water from the sphere up there...

Yet, no one can stop these 3 from having fun... snowy beach or cold weather! Oh kids!

Of course, we passed by the recreation center... i joined the fun!

Leaving the place to go home, we had our first dinner already, time for the second!