Day 8

Today started out with some driving around Rotterdam visiting all the old places where my folks (and me for one or two places) used to live. This is my parents standing in the same spot that their wedding day outside my granddad's old place.

At one stage, while looking at where dad used to live, I had to epically pee. While contemplating using a nearby tree, it turned out that mum's cousin's daughter's inlaw's place was round the corner. Ah, relief.

For lunch, we went to the Pannekoekhuis (pancake house), for pancakes and poffertjes (otherwise known to the Hobart community as "The smallest pancakes in the world").

Tasty tasty pancakes

After lunch we met up with mum's other cousin (on the other side of the family), and went to visit my great aunt. This was a very touching moment. Sadly, my great aunt had a stroke a few months ago, and then while getting better fell and broke her hip. She was fearful that she would not be round for when my mum visited. There were many tears of joy when she saw mum, dad, Sandra and myself, especially as it was her birthday.

After leaving the hospital, we hungout with mum's cousin (the daughter of my great aunt) for the rest of the night. That was pretty cool. Although she did mention that she got a new laptop that wasn't setup for her. So Sandra and I (being the kind children we are) set that up for her. All we did was to buy and install office 2010, as well as setup her email. However, only someone who has had to do this on a computer that was using a language that they could not read can know how hard such a simple task could be. All I can say is that we love Google translate.