More itty bitty fame

http://beta.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1068885 is the video from the young girl who came and woke us all up. You can see our fake breakfast with the girl :)

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Random photos :)

During the seal dance, while I was tube feeding my roommate wine with assistance from Guillermo from Spain.




Snow! It usually doesn't reach freezing here, and even so it only was there for about an hour, but the seals enjoyed some white fluffy stuff.

It is very windy here! Especially on top of a windmill

Pancake boat

We finally made it to the pancake boat! To celebrate my roommate Anna's last day we had dinner at the pancake boat. It was beautiful, made delicious food, and is just a wonderful random thing to find in a small town in the Netherlands.

Seal dance

Today was interesting; the dutch equivalent of icarly is filming an episode at the seal center. She was privileged enough to get to wake up 16 volunteers with a spoon and pot at 6:15 in the morning so we could all have breakfast together (of course this is a normal day...we always wake up bright and shining and eat together; no one rolls out of bed 5 minutes before their shift downs some coffee and stumbles into work).

This afternoon was the goodbye party for the volunteer coordinator. She has worked here since she was 12 in some capacity. To give her a proper show off, the volunteers created a seal dance for her; this involved several volunteers dressing up as seals, and others catching and force feeding them. I have pics of them trying on the seal costumes :) Nofar, from Isreal, is a very sad sick seal. Michelle, from Alaska, has wicked baby-seal anger and flipper flapping. I am not sure about Anna (Austria) and Nofar are doing in the last picture...During the show I was a feeder; I tube-fed my roomate Michelle some wine.

1 second of fame

A tv crew came and did a short clip of the center, I got a second of fame where you can't even really see my face :)

http://www.hartvannederland.nl/nederland/noord-holland/2011/zeehondencreche-overspoeld-met-huilers/

Delightful Sunday

I had a wonderful day. I woke up to breakfast in bed courtesy of my Austrian roomie Anna. It was a sunny, but chilly day. The local windmill was open, and we went up and saw the inside of one of Hollands historic windmills. We also played on a zip line that is randomly set up here ^_^ Worked outdoors in the afternoon, feeding some very nice seals. They are closer to release, and are starting to realize eating is not such a bad idea after all so they don't fight it so much. A lovely homemade quiche for dinner, and more wonderful baby seal work at night. There are three baby grey seals in a quarantine that follow you every where hoping for a fish. You have to lock them up to work with just one of them, otherwise they are crawling all over you. Just precious.

A very nice Sunday ^_^