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27 maart 2007

Head of the river

topladies of gyas.jpg
jan willem encouraging his wife anita rowing in double 4.jpgin his element coaching the ladies.jpg
the audience cheering to the line up.jpghaving fun before the race.jpg
kpn tower at haarlem.jpgwhow a bird.jpglarge mozaik of 20 000 small pictures.jpg
aparently no shoe sponsor yet.jpg

As you all know last weekend more than 400 rowing teams started for the 8 km Head of the river at the Amstel in Amsterdam. "Our" Gyas team stayed another saturday/sunday at our place and rowed a tough race sunday afternoon.
Compliments, because I (Johan) know what that means. Fortunately the weather was beautiful.
Lia is still suffering her frozen shoulder and sees a physiotherapist 3 times a week now. We both hope it will improve soon.

From a sunny Abbenes we send you our love .. Lia and Johan

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18 maart 2007

Gyas ladies 8 stayed a weekend in Abbenes

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rowing is a matter of coaching so to say.jpgteam building by karin.jpg
inspiration for the bunny picture.jpggyas rowing girls as bunny.jpgcreative director at work.jpg
chilling in the hot tub was a must.jpg
next shift.jpg
15 breads is a moderate meal for the ladies.jpgjade and marijn with granny.jpg
mirror mirror.jpgswing it out.jpg
it is fun to have the grandchildren to stay.jpg
lionel richy in ahoy.jpglia and johan in the audience.jpg
lia suzanne michiel jeroen and philia.jpg
spring time at abbenes.jpg

A couple of weeks ago Jan Willem Snippe asked us if his ladies 8 rowing team could stay over a weekend, during the Heineken races in Amsterdam. Of course we said "yes" not knowing a team including coaches totals up to 13 people!!! So you can imagine we had so to speak a full house. hahaha. Johan had a very creative idea and suggested the ladies to form the playboy bunny logo inspired by the playboy cover of march 07. You see the results and we had great fun orchestrating a human rabbit head... Thanks to this chearful action the ladies did a very good rowing job and moved upwards in the classification. Next week they return for an other race and Johan is torturing his head for new creative ideas. To be continued..
Last weekend we spent with our grandchildren and some days later Johan's children visited us as well.
It was a busy week because we also went to Lionel Richy's concert in the Ahoy concert hall in Rotterdam. Our type of music and although Lia can not lift her left arm we both were swinging in the enthousiastic crowd.
So we had great fun and we hope you too.
Love from Lia and Johan

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04 maart 2007

No offspring for Pasa and Kedi

operation cats completed.jpglots of green in the sunroom.jpglia in the backyard.jpg
aiden has to protect his food for pasa.jpgcrazy old friends.jpg
whitney and damian.jpgnice to see judith again.jpgshowtime for ingeborg and marion.jpg
cfo free fight.jpgingeborg and peter.jpgjudith.jpgjustin and marius.jpglucia and a3.jpg
lucia of www theartofadvice nl.jpgmarjon having fun.jpgpeter and rudolph.jpgpeter trying to be mysterious.jpgspeech less.jpg

If Pasa was a tennis player he should call out: "new balls please". However the vetenarian did an irreversible job and Pasa is now a "you know what cat". Kedi showed solidarity and left her goodies also with the vet, so no more pills for her. As we are writing this they both recovered remakebly fast and they play with each other like nothing happened. Good for them. Last weekend Cindy and Wilbert came by with Damian Whitney and Aiden. It was fun to have them around.
As you also can see on the images Johan had lots of fun with his "old" Vendex KBB collegues. We spent an evening dining and wining. Especially Peter van Bakkum was very pleased to see Johan back in Dutch business.
To be continued......
Lia's shoulder is not making progress so she will see a doctor soon.
Keep you posted, love from Johan and Lia


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