What will be left?

Today we had an email from Shell to tell us they had visited the warehouse where all the personal belongings from all the families are stored. A few weeks ago the rebels looted the warehouse and they have made such a mess of it that they can't even tell what came from which house... Everything that is left will be packed and shipped to The Netherlands as soon as they can organise it, and then we can all come and see if any of our belongings are among it.... Not much hope I am afraid.

We don't even know what was left in the house to be packed. The landlord probably did some shopping in our house and we know some other people got hold of the keys... Then there was no supervision during the packing, so more will have been taken.

I know we should be grateful we left Tripoli just in time and that we are safe. And I know a lot of our Libyan friends have lost family and friends during the war, but I still feel sad and angry. 

Ganeshas

I had lunch at a vegetarian restaurant today. The lady that runs the place had all of her 1200-and-then-some Ganeshas on display.

Some pictures

Adriaan took the boys to the airplane museum last weekend. The museum is close to our house and has several air crafts and rockets on display. All 4 boys loved it. They went to McDonald afterwards. No beef burgers, so no Big Mac, but the chicken burgers were nice too they said.

These are the cute animals that we see around the house here (too many nasties too, like ants in all sizes...). I finally managed to catch a squirrel on photo, while it was in the palm tree next to our front door. The little owls are always sleeping on our neighbours roof during the day.

Tears of joy!

I came across this photo on the Facebook page of one of Adriaan's Libyan colleagues. It brought tears to my eyes.

These guys have been holding the fort while all their expat colleagues were evacuated. I am so happy for them. It is such a huge thing to be able to celebrate your freedom.

Villa Kakelbont

An impression of the furniture we bought.

With a little help from a friend!

I am still working on the blog lay out and in my last entry I said HELP!!! and help I got. Marjan is Adriaan's cousin (her father Johan is my late father in law's brother) and she lives in America. We have never met, other that online, but I read her blog and feel I know her a bit because of that. We are also friends on Facebook and every time I write a new post or change something on my blog, Marjan will comment and give great pointers on how to improve things. So thank you Marjan!!!!

Work in progress.

Hard work!

As you can see, I have been fiddling with the design of this blog. I like it, but the thing that buggs me is that I can't get the photo of me and the boys to fit the box. HELP!

I have loads more photos to upload, but want to do it a bit more fancy than I have so far, so it will take some more time to figure it all out.

Will just put two photos here to show what to me is the ultimate feeling of India so far. I haven't seen 'relaxed' like this anywhere else ;-)

This dog is asleep on the road, with a speed bump as a pillow. Traffice was coming past constantly, how does it stay asleep? Probably too exhausted from barking and fighting all night (keeping us awake...).

This cow was not on the road, but she was facing traffic that came really close to take a left turn.