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This Tuesday we went to Gronigen town.
This is the town centre market. Bread shop.....

Look at this huge berry!

dates!!!

tiny pepper!

Green broccoli!

We don't know how to eat this.

Smoke fishes.

Tea time. Of course.

The most impressibe food is Herrings. OH, like sashimi!!
with row onion. Aki's love to eat row onion as well.

3 ruro for 3pieces of Herrings.

Aki didn't eat fish tenpura.She just love row Herrings.

Holland!!!!!

There are lots of shops in this town. We walked about 5 hours, but Aki couldn't have found out her favorite black jacket. Aki is not interested in any colour these days. Only black!!

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Dogs are eating a goat's stomach once a week.

Chickens sleep with one leg.
This is serious science!
How can they do that? Hmm...

I just can't believe chickens sleep like this. Ha!

Aki is working in the stables.

Today, we helped make soft herb cheese.

 

Lots of herbs are mixed together. Aki comes to like this.

This is Fetta cheese. Renee is callling this Salad cheese.

Soft goat's cheese which is mixed with honey. 'Yum!' says Aki.

This farm name; De Buurackers is on the front of the cheese. We put on the labels.

These plastic bags are sealed by this machine.

We bought these flowers last week at a market and Renee planted them in her garden.
We would like to leave something in this farm as a memory. As long as this flower blooms they can remember us. :)

Pipi and dogs often have tics which is a soybean size insect that sucks their blood.
First we were scared to take it off from the cat and dogs, but the second week, finally we've started to do it ourselves.

Pipi is a really cadly cat.

Typical Duch horses have hair on their hooves.

Renee cleans up their hooves.

Brushing tails,

We are going to be a
Royal family again.

Belts on.....

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Dogs, Sara and Lexi lve to catch their tennis balls. There is a football pitch behind the farm.

Dogs and humans feel tired...

Both dogs are quite huge, but they are well trained by Renee who works at a dogs school one a week volantarily. Both dogs live in dining room but they never steal our food. They've never begged for food either. They are very good dogs.

Today, Renee bought smoked eel for us.
Remove the skin........and..

Put them on the crackers.

The happiest person at dinner time is Aki! Because there is a big piece of meat and lots of good food!

Green brocoli. I've never seen it before...

Suntory whisky in Holland. Ton and Renee's daughter is studying
 Japanese at Nagasaki University at the moment.
So she is sending lots of Japanese food, etc. from Japan. These must be some of the things she sent.

Almost every night, we play this game after dinner. It is very fun. It is called Barricade.

Can you see where I am?
I am almost the winner. Since I've come here, I wonder how many games of Barricade we have played...
I've never been the winner in Barricade before. Ton always won, so I was really excited!

One more step. I'm going to be the winner!

YAY!!! GOT IT!!!
We want to buy this game, so we were looking in all the toy shops in
Gronigen town. But we couldn't find it. :(