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Car brands

Only 2 years old, but Vincent knows them all: Audi, BMW, Citroen, Ferrari, Ford, Kia, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes, Opel, Peugot, Porsche, Renault, Saab, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, etc., etc. Time to go to bed? Don't even try the regular bed time stories, just read him a car magazine. Show him some car pictures and he'll tell you the brand.

Click on the picture to watch a movie of Vincent in action (be patient, the movie is 17Mb big).

Posted on February 28, 2004 at 10:14 PM in Cars, Vincent | Permalink| Comments (0)

Tante Annie

Today we visited tante Annie.

Posted on February 23, 2004 at 08:54 PM in Tante Annie, Vincent | Permalink| Comments (0)

Selemat Jalan

Opa Maurits is leaving for Indonesia, together with his brother Oom Cobus and a group of people from the PIGL. Vincent and Noa decided to pack their suitcases as well, maybe Opa would take them with him. Selemat Jalan Opa, we will miss you!

Posted on February 22, 2004 at 08:48 PM in Opa Maurits, Victor & Wanda, Noa, Mica, Vincent | Permalink| Comments (0)

Reading

Opa is almost leaving for his 2 month journey to distant Indonesia. We won't see him for a long while, so this is Vincent's last chance to read a book together with Opa.

Posted on February 21, 2004 at 08:39 PM in Opa Maurits, Vincent | Permalink| Comments (0)

Tower

Vincent build a big tall tower from Lego, it's even taller than himself.

Posted on February 21, 2004 at 08:30 PM in Vincent | Permalink| Comments (0)

Bandung school pictures

Opa Maurits found some old school pictures. These are from the H.B.S., Bilitonstraat in Bandung, Dutch Indisch. It is the 3rd grade class and these pictures was taken in May 1949. The Dutch website www.Schoolbank.nl is a nice website with information about schools in the Netherlands including former Dutch colonies. You might find back some old friends there...

Posted on February 20, 2004 at 12:53 PM in Opa Maurits, Tempo Doeloe | Permalink| Comments (1)

Krajicek's tournament

This year, the ABN AMRO tennis tournament was led by Richard Krajicek for the first time, which probably was the reason for the strong line-up. Johan and I watched Sjeng Schalken vs Raemon Sluiter and John van Lottum versus Juan Carlos Ferrero. The Spanish supporters were chanting against the Dutch, that was fun.

Posted on February 19, 2004 at 09:23 PM in Jacques & Hester, Johan, Tennis | Permalink| Comments (1)

Young Opa Maurits

We keep on digging in the old shoebox. After a number of old pictures of Oma Hedwig's side of the family, we now found a picture of the Roumimper side. On the left in this picture you see Oom Nolly, doesn't he look like his son Harold? Oom Willy is standing in the middle. And to the righ it's Opa Maurits, he really looks like his son Raimond.

Posted on February 16, 2004 at 08:53 PM in Opa Maurits | Permalink| Comments (0)

Oldest family picture

This is probably the oldest family picture we have. Most likely it was taken around 1914 on the porch of the old family house in Surabaya, Dutch-Indies. When we went back to Indonesia we visited one of the old houses in Surabaya where the family used to live, it may have been this house. Sitting in the back is Theodorus Gruwel, the Opa of Vincent's Oma, like so:

Theodorus Gruwel
+-- Maria Pangkei-Gruwel
+---- Hedwig Roumimper-Pangkei
+------ Jacques Roumimper
+-------- Vincent Roumimper

From left to right you see Oma Brintih, tante Trees (oom Nelis' mother), Opa Theodoor (Vincent's great great grandfather) with on his lap Oom Wim (Joyce' father and Dewi's Opa), Maria aka Mien (Vincent's great grand mother) and tante Dien.

Posted on February 15, 2004 at 01:59 PM in Oma Hedwig, Tempo Doeloe | Permalink| Comments (1)

Family ties

This weekend we visited Roy & Nanette. Vincent played with Jay: cars, trains and of course the computer. We passed by the house of famous Dutch speedskater Erben Wennemars who lives close by. We started telling about the famous relatives we have, mentioning the Boltini family and tante Dicky. After numerous phonecalls with mothers and aunts, it turns out that tante Dicky is related to both Hester and Nanette. Now that makes Vincent & Jay double cousins from their fathers' sides and also from their mothers' sides!

Johanna (Jo) Veldhuijsen-Smits
+-- Dicky Boltini-Veldhuijsen
+-- Frans Veldhuijsen
+---- Hester Roumimper-Veldhuijsen - Jacques Roumimper
+------ Vincent Roumimper
Cornelis (Kees) Smits
+-- Janna Visser-Smits
+---- Marijke Herfst-Visser
+------ Nanette Herfst - Roy Roumimper
+-------- Jay Roumimper

Jacobus Roumimper
+-- Maurits Roumimper
+---- Jacques Roumimper - Hester Veldhuijsen
+------ Vincent Roumimper
+-- Jacobus (Cobus, Jan) Roumimper
+---- Roy Roumimper - Nanette Herfst
+------ Jay Roumimper

Posted on February 15, 2004 at 11:17 AM in Roy & Nanette, Jay, Tante Dicky & Oom Albert & Ria | Permalink| Comments (0)

Girls

Here is an old picture of Oma Hedwig and Tante Edith when they were young girls, together with 2 others. The picture was taken on 29 May 1954 in Surabaya, Dutch Indies.

Posted on February 11, 2004 at 12:00 AM in Oma Hedwig, Tempo Doeloe | Permalink| Comments (0)

Sea World

Elsa came over to stay for the night. We wanted to go out but it was a very rainy Sunday. So we looked for something indoors and went to Sea World in Scheveningen.

Posted on February 8, 2004 at 03:27 PM in Rutger & Irene, Elsa, Bart | Permalink| Comments (0)