Days in Holland...

Sheesh, can you believe that I just managed to let the smoke alarm go off at my relos place?- from cooking 2 small buns for breakfast?!!!! Aahhhh!!! New technology these days, sheesh! You see... I turned their oven to the desired temperature as stated on the pack and put the timer on for 5mins only to realise AFTERWARDS that the timer is not a timer but a microwave instead!! You're suppose to use one or the other but I shockingly cooked (and burnt) my 2 buns in both the oven & microwave- hmph! The alarm woke up my uncle and now he's heating up some new ones for me :{

It's my 4th day here in Holland and I purposely came over during my cousin's 1 week school break...

Yesterday I went with my relos to Walibi World, an amusement park similar to Australia's Wonderland but only heaps better!!! The've got 5 different rollercoaster rides amongst other cool rides and my cousins and I managed to go on most of the crazy rides within 6hrs!!!- though most of the time was dedicated to waiting in the queue. Oh how I love rollercoaster rides!!! The biggest rollercoaster ride here is called The Goliath and it is apparently the biggest rollercoaster ride throughout Holland and Germany, awesome!!!!! It's steep, fast and extremely high!!! It takes you on loops, upside down, to the left, to the right... woohoo!!!! I felt like a kid all over again yesterday as I wondered through the park with my 14yrs old and 10yrs old cousins =)

The day prior we went to Keukenhof, a massive flower park/festival consisting of a whole range of tulips (though I'm yet to see a blue tulip!) amongst other amazing flowers and plants. It's opened only during April & May each year, the time of year that tulips only blossom and I took soooo many pictures (mainly of the flowers and not myself, of course!) and managed to drain the whole battery of my camera! The scenery was so beautiful and so peaceful.. if only we had something of the likes back home.

It feels really comfy being in my relos place, everyone is so nice and inviting =) And their house is so nice!! Everything is all close to white- including the bathroom! My lil cousin is kind enough to give up his room to me for the week, my aunty laid out several winter clothes on the bed since she knew I didn't bring much over, they all gave me a really generous graduation gift and they've been taking time off work to take us all out, yay! My relos own a little take-away store very similar to a delicatessen store back home with asian groceries on the side. I've decided, I'll spend time with my relos on this trip and will come back again during Summer with my housemates only then to stay in Amsterdam (my relos lives in Alkmaar, 40km out of Ams.) to experience the other side of Holland ;)

*** So I've spoken briefly to my mum and according to my future plans, I won't come home in September anymore but will come home in February next year, before the Chinese New Year and before my sister's Graduation (wouldn't miss it for the world, sis!). I'm not sure if my mum's really OK with it but I think she understands why. I've made a lot of plans whilst my sty is in London.. hope it all works out well, fingers crossed! ***