On Monday I got picked up by my sister-in-law's father, who kindly offered to drive us to our vacation spot! That was really sweet of him considering it would have taken almost three hours by train. After taking a break for lunch, we arrived at the Landal Aelderholt vacation park around 12:30.
(Where I had an awesome sandwich with cream cheese and smoked salmon.)
We explored for a bit and got settled into our little cabin. It's snuggled in the woods with a little playground in the back yard, perfect for my niece to folic in and "collect firewood"....because, I dunno, that's what little girls do? And like a tourist, I totally took pics of our cabin. Here ya go!
After we got settled into the cabin, we took a quick inspection of what we had and what we needed to get at the camp store. The cabin was surprisingly bare - you actually needed to "purchase" towels, soap, or even salt and pepper yourself. Maybe that's how they keep the prices of the cabin so low, since you have to buy the bare necessities yourself :P
I think since the vacation started we went to the camp shop like five times - to get food for breakfast, lunch of dinner. Which the latter consisted of pasta cabonara with pieces of bacon and mushrooms, plus a nice green salad and cucumber! Cooking out of a can was actually awesomely-delicious!
Oh and I bought cookies.
Because that's totally what you do on vacation :D
And after hearing my niece say "NOW can we go to the swimming pool?" for two hours, we finally went! We put on her little floaties (I believe the Dutch term is "wings") onto her arms and she walked confidently into the pool.
Only to stop dead in her tracks, staring at the blue monster stretched out before her. Hmmmmm....
Yeah. At first she didn't want to go in at all, especially not in the deep water. But as soon as we kinda...forced her...into the shallow end and she could touch the bottom of the pool with her toes - wow, talk about a swell of confidence! She started dancing around and playing mermaid.
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Okay so enough about kids and cabins and totally eating pasta. The real question you might be asking is: did I actually write something? Did I work on my novel yet?
Errmm....
Well okay. It was the first night, right?? I maybe wrote a couple sentences, but in my defense, I DID do a nice brainstorm session with my sister-in-law about her characters. They are really starting to develop and she's already getting a nice story going just from writing their backgrounds.
That is also a nice exercise for me, since my story is ALL centered around plot and what I want to happen. The characters are in the story to fulfill their roles....and I didn't spend a lot of time developing their backgrounds, how they grew up, or where they came from. Which in reality is what shapes a person and gives them a personality.
Something my characters kinda lacked up to this point.
That will lead me into writing for Day TWO of this adventure. See the next blog post!
Sounds like a awesome fun first day!!! ^_^
ReplyDeleteAnd the pictures are quite nice too! I hope you have a great time there, making memories and all :)
I'm totally a tourist taking pictures of everything we do, haha. But with every photo comes a memory as well - and I want to make the most of this trip. I want to remember everything and everyone, just the way they are now. These two ladies are very special to me :)
DeleteAnd you to us! Don't be too hard on yourself, though! You made some major progress in the character development department.
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