at the Olympic park
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Canada for the 2010 winter olympics......
I am in Canada now. They did let me in, hooray !!(let's see if they'll let me back into the usa??) That's the trick..........3 other drivers didn't make it. One found out half way up the trip, the other 2at the border. Some drivers back home found out too, that they are not going to be let into canada, one couple has pulled a bonnie and clyde and robbed a bank, what is that all about??Another had a conviction 37 years ago and is not let into the country.That is something to talk about during your lunch at the pub, EEEHH ?Hope all is well with you. Drink one on me that we will be safe because things haven't really worked out for me/us so far.We got up saturday at 6, drove to the town just in front of the border, where the busses were going to be inspected, got there at 11 am, sat. waited there until 7pm and found out that 2 of our drivers had to be left behind, these were the 2 that can't get along, so now they are sharing a room, hahahahaha.We got to go after finding that out, but I had suggested to leave those 2 behind with a bus any way, 3 times, but they wanted to be social and because one was the lead driver, the others didn't want to put them together on one bus.Bullsh.........t ! We should have left them there, now 5 others had to go through hell because of it.... We drove up to the border, got there, the new lead driver didn't follow the proper sign for commercial vehicles and took us the wrong way, I didn't want to be a smart.....alec and do my own thing, but I did say "where is he going??"We followed him, into Canada, but were turned around by the border patrol. We went back to the usa through the american customs now. So it was a quick first visit. One of our drivers was furious, because her tollerance level had dropped miles down. Finally we got checked at the other border where we should have gone the first time and after one hour we were across. On to the hotel, so you would think. WRONG !!We had to go to the central district first to check in, and drop our busses, we would be transported to our hotel later.After they checked our busses, we parked, lost our luggage, retrieved our luggage, got into a van, then a big holding tent where they had us wait, got onto another bus and had us wait, and wait, and wait and wait, etc. until it had enough drivers/passengers to take to our hotel.Did I mention that we had been waiting in the waiting area for 1/2 hour earlier........ It was 10.45 pm when the bus left. Then we found out they were not going to bring us to our hotel 11 miles away from there, as promissed by our company but instead they drove away, dropped the first Passengers/drivers off at their hotel, 45 minutes later, then the second group, 1/2 hour later, and us a total of 1 1/2 hours later........rediculous. So every day we go to work we have a 3 hour comute?? CRAZY !! You can understand that we are not very happy campers. We are now staying at the best western Motel, the rooms are realy small and my collegue's are complaining that we have to spend 1 month together in this small room?? Terrible even when you like your collegue.........there is no room to put your stuff. Always look on the bright side of life: we have a microwave..........unfortunatelly it doesn't work,ahahahahaha. Got to go to bed now, long day tomorow !!
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Vandaag was mijn verjaardags-feestje
Vandaag vierden we mijn verjaardags feest. Ok de echte verjaardag is dan 25 November 2009 maar dan is het ook een andere feestdag in de USA namelijk "thanksgivingsday", zodat we ervoor hebben gekozen om mijn verjaardag vroeg te vieren.
Today we are celebrating my birthday. The real birthday wil be on november the 25th 2009 but that is too near to thanksgiving so we decided to celebrate early.
It almost got cancelled since I had food poisoning from bad chicken from Idaho.
But it was a fun evening eventhough not everybody that was invited was there.
Today we are celebrating my birthday. The real birthday wil be on november the 25th 2009 but that is too near to thanksgiving so we decided to celebrate early.
It almost got cancelled since I had food poisoning from bad chicken from Idaho.
But it was a fun evening eventhough not everybody that was invited was there.
adriaan blow's out the candles
Adriaan's Birthday November 25, 2009
Wendover Nevada
For adriaan's birthday we were invited over to wendover in Nevada for a 2 night stay in a luxury hotel/casino and I was invited to participate in a slot-machine contest.
I didn't win, but had fun playing.
I didn't win, but had fun playing.
wendover Cowboy "Will" welcomes me.
Slotmachine tournament 2009
invitation to Disney on Ice
June and Roy hoenike invited us to join them for an evening to Disney on Ice, "ice princess" show.
Unfortunatelly Roy is in a bad health state, so won't be able to join us, but we are happy to take June with us and meet the Gregerson family at the Arena.
What a great show.......
What a wonderful birthday present June and Roy, thanks a lot !
Unfortunatelly Roy is in a bad health state, so won't be able to join us, but we are happy to take June with us and meet the Gregerson family at the Arena.
What a great show.......
What a wonderful birthday present June and Roy, thanks a lot !
Disney on ice for adriaan's birthday
Disney on ice
Bell Canyon Lake Utah
bell canyon Utah
Halloween special friends
pumpkin carving green heads
HALLOWEEN IN SALT LAKE CITY UTAH USA
Today we went to Farmington in the north about 30 minutes from our house to
look at pumpkin carvings at city hall.
Arriving at city hall we found out that the artist had set up at a recreation center.
So we went to have a look, and here are some of the pic's of what we saw.
Enjoy.
Halloween 2009 salt lake city utah
Disney princesses
Moon Carving
How do you like our motorcycle?
Here's our new motorcycle......
it's a HONDA PACIFIC COAST 800 cc tourcycle.
We love it as you can see.
We just took it to Mirror lake, probably the last tour of the season.
it's a HONDA PACIFIC COAST 800 cc tourcycle.
We love it as you can see.
We just took it to Mirror lake, probably the last tour of the season.
Our motorcycle
Farewell dinner Oss April 2009
crazy
Els en Adriaan
Licking cream sickle
blue man group
Blue man group March 2009
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Switserland 2007 with the RMC
Paragliding in Switserland 2007
I am comming down.....
Family in the Netherlands Aug.2003
The Efteling attraction park Aug.2003
Zion National Park 2002
mexico cruise 2008
Zaanse Schans Holland Oct.2000
Lucy the Moose in Park City on Main Street
When I had to take the Thai group from NU-skin to Deer valley for the weekend, we showed them Park city Main street including Lucy the Moose and Browney the Bear.
Volendam October 2000
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