The Bay

This summer Ollie, my dad and I are going to our lake house at McGregor Bay. Up there there's no internet, but in town you can get some internet so I'm not going to post as often.

If you pull up to the dock in a motor-boat, the house is to you right. You get out of the boat, take the rope from each end of the boat, and tie it to the dock. There's a speacial knot that we call "the McGregor Bay knot". (see picture)

Then you walk up the dock. When it's high tide you walk straight forwards, step up a step and go to the right (the house) or to the left (the hammok and outhouse), however when it's low tide, you walk up a ramp step up a step and go to the right or to the left . If you proceed to the right, you have 2 choices: 1. take a slight left go up a couple of stairs, pass two chairs and a small table, walk through a screen door, and arive in what seems to be a kids bedroom, or 2. keep going straight, walk up a few steps, and walk through a door into the screen porch in which you will find a pingpong table, a couch and a couple of chairs around a table, and another 2 doors, one leading to the kitchen and one leading back outside. If you go into the kitchen, you see on your right, the counter with a sink and a pump (instead of a faucet). On your left, however, you first see two chairs, a couch and a coffee table, then a door (leading to the kids' bedroom), and after that, a cookstove. A little to the right of the cookstove, you see a a gas stove, then a door leading to the pantry/hallway. If you go to the right, you walk down the hallway leading to a deadend. However, to the right is a screendoor leading outside, and to the left, there is a two-person bedroom, with an elecritcal toilet attached. The screen door leads to a hammock and the boat house (which includes a sauna and two beds).
To the left of the dock you find another hammock, the out house, and a couple of climbing rocks.
Other atractions are mount baldy (a good hiking spot), dead horse bay (a good swiming spot), and blueberry island (guess!).

Cat woman

In Oostende (on the coast of Belgium) we have a vacation home. Two houses further there lives a old woman who has a couple of pets: 2 dogs, 1 African Grey parrot, and 49 cats. The dogs are named Jolie and Leander. Jolie is the sister and boss of Leander, although Leander is sweeter. The parrot likes man dislikes women and hates childeren, so naturally we didn't get along.

Most of the cats were rescued of the streets or in the forrest but a couple were found in the graveyard and one was even rescued out of a banana box.

There's Deserie the kitchen cat. She always sits on the kitchen counter meowing for coffie milk. And Chiquita the banana box cat who has the most humongus eyes.

Me and one of my best friends Ilona (check out her blog at (http://foilsandfeuilleton.blogspot.com/ )made up nicknames for some of the cats, like for a cat that always sat on the top bookshelf. We called him reader. The small cute tabby kitten we called jagaur because he liked "hunting" the string we dangled above his head. Garfield was a fat orange cat of 15 years old and Tux was a shy tuxedo cat who liked watching us play with Jagaur. Jade and Aqua were named after there eyes and lucky because of his bad luck superstition.

Hi!

Hey everyone,

I'm Zoe. I live in Belgium. I'm moved here almost 2 years ago. Mom is Dutch and Dad's American. I have a brother named Oliver, but I call him Ollie. When Ollie was 6 months old, he, Dad, and Mom moved from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Winston Salem, North Carolina. There I was born. We lived there as a very happy family for 8 years. Then every thing changed. Mom and Dad got divorced, we started moving and here's my new life. Going to a dutch school, living in an apartment insted of a house...
I'm still having some trouble with my socail life but I'm working on it. :]