Chad is a Hugger!

Far Post sticker on bicycle

After our last game in Holland (against RKSV Schijndel) we gave Far Post stickers to the coach of the other team. The coach gave the stickers to his players. All the kids in Holland ride bikes like this one, but the bikes are usually black. The Dutch call them "grandma bicycles." This bike belongs to Koen, the player Chad was covering.

The Dutch take great pride in their bicycles. A Far Post sticker apparently is considered cool in Holland!

Thanks, Willem, for the photo.

Movie...Peter charges Nate in goal

Movie...Chris in goal.

movie...Friday on the bus

Dr. Charlie's photos from Saturday in Eindhoven

Saturday was a relaxing day for the boys. We toured Eindhoven, which has many historic churches. We met up with the Far Post girls. Then we all went to watch a great semi-pro U-18 soccer match. Here are a few of Dr. Charlie's photos.

Jim

photos from Thursday & Friday

After our game on Friday evening, we had a chance to meet one of the parents of the kids we were playing. Willem (his son was 13) had been following our progress on this blog. Go figure...we have international fans!

Willem had downloaded one of our team photos from day 1 at Ajax Stadium and he had printed and laminated the photo for us!! What a great gift! There is a photo of Jim and Willem attached--thanks Willem!

Saturday--Today we spent the day walking around Eindhoven, which was a great diversion after a big week of training and games. We met up with the girls at 2 pm and then had a chance to watch the PSV U-18 team play a very exciting match against Sparta Rotterdam. These kids were unbelievably good and we were able to watch the game right from the sidelines.

We also had a chance to meet up with Matt Sulva (CVU student) who took the train over from Bruges in Belgium where he is spending the year as a AFS student. He looks great, and he now actually speaks English with a Dutch accent! He had a great time catching up with all of our kids--he knows most of the older siblings from CVU and from Far Post.

Lastly, the girls coach tells me that his team won (again) by a score of 1 - 0 (again) and the winning goal was scored by Emily Alyward (again).

See you tomorrow!

Dr. Charlie and Jim